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The real question behind every board request for an AI strategy

Blue Connector Pte Ltd, Jon Scheele

The real question behind every board request for an AI strategy

Most board requests for an AI strategy are not requests for a strategy. The underlying anxiety is about competitive exposure: are we going to be left behind, and what does it cost to do nothing? That’...

Jul 21, 2026

Why Precision Engineering Firms Need End-to-End Business Integration

Blue Connector Pte Ltd, Jon Scheele

Why Precision Engineering Firms Need End-to-End Business Integration

Precision engineering firms face a unique challenge: delivering custom solutions with exacting tolerances while maintaining profitability and meeting tight deadlines. A single micron can mean the diff...

Sep 9, 2025

Stop Building Business Apps, Start Building Your Product

Blue Connector Pte Ltd, Jon Scheele

Stop Building Business Apps, Start Building Your Product

Every week, I see the same story play out in startup accelerators and founder communities. A brilliant team builds an innovative SaaS product, gains early traction, and then... gets distracted. Instea...

Sep 9, 2025

OWASP Top 10 API Security Risks for Real

Blue Connector Pte Ltd, Jon Scheele

OWASP Top 10 API Security Risks for Real

Here are real examples of API security breaches, how they map to theOWASP API Security Top 10 (2023), and practical mitigation strategies to prevent or minimise their impact. Click on each heading to ...

Oct 15, 2024

Understanding the OWASP 10 for API Security

Blue Connector Pte Ltd, Jon Scheele

Understanding the OWASP 10 for API Security

Why a separate Top 10 for API Security? OWASP created the Top 10 for API Security Risks separate from the Top 10 for Web Application Security Risks because API security presents unique challenges that...

Oct 15, 2024

Why you need an Internal Developer Portal

Why you need an Internal Developer Portal

Imagine being a newly-hired developer. You have been assigned to create a new application. You've got a number of things that you need to figure out. What language are you going to use? Where is all t...

Nov 9, 2023

Organising your business with software

Organising your business with software

When an organisation grows and takes on more activities, it's no longer possible to manage it without formal processes. Things can spiral out of control, leading to missed deadlines, lost opportunitie...

Sep 20, 2023

Jon Scheele and Alpa Parekh

Risk Management as a Service (RMaaS)

Embracing new opportunities requires balancing agility with robustness. Like a great chess player, boldness must be balanced with protection: implementing guardrails to ensure continuity of operations...

Apr 1, 2023

Jon Scheele and Alpa Parekh

Wealth Management Benefits and Risks of APIs. Part 4: Order Execution, Portfolio Management and Reporting

Executing client orders with best efforts is critical. This is where Wealth Management firms (“Wealth Managers”) must live up to the trust placed in them by their clients. Once the order is executed a...

Feb 11, 2023

Jon Scheele and Alpa Parekh

Wealth Management - Benefits and Risks of APIs. Part 3: Investment Analysis and Advice

This is the phase when you can show what you as a Wealth Management Firm can do for your client. Whether you use Wealth Advisors with expertise gained from years of experience in the industry or Robo-...

Feb 11, 2023

Jon Scheele and Alpa Parekh

Wealth Management Benefits and Risks of APIs and RPA. Part 2: Client Onboarding

Winning a new wealth client is just the start of the relationship. The next step, client onboarding, requires the firm to conduct due diligence including regulatory compliance. It is where the client ...

Feb 9, 2023

Jon Scheele and Alpa Parekh

Wealth Management - Risks and Benefits of APIs. Part 1: Client Engagement

A key to automating and tailoring this information access, from in-house and third-party sources, is Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). With this comes risks that the firm’s Risk Management mu...

Feb 8, 2023

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