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Politically Exposed Technology: How CIOs Restore Control Under Executive Scrutiny

By Scott Ayscough

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About this book

How do CIOs restore control when board confidence drops and technology comes under executive scrutiny? When confidence drops, the questions change: Are we in control? Is exposure increasing? Can this be defended? At this point, the issue is no longer technical. It is structural. Most organisations respond with more reporting, more governance, and more activity.Confidence still declines. Politically Exposed Technology provides a clear, structured approach to restoring control in complex, high accountability environments. Drawing on real-world experience across utilities, healthcare, aviation and government, this book explains why large scale technology estates become politically exposed and what senior leaders must do to stabilise them.

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About Scott Ayscough

Scott Ayscough, podcast guest

Author and Managing Director - IT Transformation and Recovery Specialist

Royal Signals Former British Army communications specialist20+ years Technology operations and transformation leadership£34M programme Led a three-year service transformation4 domains PET Transformation Framework

Scott Ayscough is the Founder and Managing Director of Valuecom, author of Politically Exposed Technology (PET™) and creator of the PET™ Transformation Framework for executive transformation control.

A former Royal Signals soldier who served in Germany and worked within NATO headquarters in a network management centre, Scott has spent more than two decades leading technology operations and transformations across government, healthcare, utilities, aviation, transport and enterprise organisations.

Following his military service, Scott built his career through senior technology, operations and transformation positions with Vodafone, National Grid and NTT, before moving into consultancy and executive leadership with Government, easyJet, GE Healthcare and National Highways. Repeated exposure to transformation recovery assignments led him to identify common patterns behind programme failure and ultimately shaped the thinking behind the PET™ Transformation Framework.

Today, Scott leads Valuecom, a UK technology consultancy specialising in IT strategy and architecture, transformation programmes, operations and service management, and cyber security and compliance. Valuecom is listed on the UK Government Digital Marketplace (G Cloud) and is certified to ISO 9001, ISO 27001 and Cyber Essentials.

Over the course of his career, Scott has led and directed major technology operations and transformation initiatives across both public and private sector organisations, including a £34 million service transformation programme delivered over a three year period.

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