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Who Gets Paid for the Platform? Lessons From a Big Week in AI and Intellectual Property
The most valuable intellectual property in your business is often not the product your customers see — it’s the platform underneath it: the data it learned from, the delivery technology it rides on, the foundational patents everything else is built over. Several developments this past week show what happens when someone owns those foundations, and…
When the Moat Goes Orbital
Ben Thompson’s recent Stratechery analysis is a masterclass in how scale, integration and narrative compound into something competitors can no longer touch. Starlink is profitable not because the satellites are clever, but because SpaceX owns the launch capacity that puts them there. Tesla’s Full Self-Driving isn’t licensed from anyone. The “rack-in-space” thesis Thompson lays out…
Could Your IP Strategy Survive a Wargame?
Most companies now accept that geopolitical risk belongs in corporate strategy, yet very few have ever stress-tested how they would actually respond. McKinsey’s recent article, The art, science, and technology of geopolitical scenario planning, puts numbers on the gap: fewer than a third of organisations rate their geopolitical risk management as mature, a third do…
AI Transformation Is Not a Strategy Problem — It’s an Ownership Problem
Most AI transformations will fail for a familiar reason. Not because the strategy is wrong, but because organisations misread how change actually happens. The recent BCG analysis makes this explicit: leaders assume alignment, but employees experience change as something imposed, not chosen. The gap matters. For IP‑intensive businesses, this is more than a cultural issue—it…
Where Is Your Leverage? What a Week of IP Disputes Teaches About Strategy
What actually decides an IP dispute — the strength of your rights, or the machinery around them? This past week delivered three very different answers to that question, and each one points to the same conclusion for business leaders: outcomes are built long before anyone reaches a courtroom. If you own patents, license technology, or…
