Reinventing Legacy
Why Digital "Polishing" is No Longer Enough
We often treat "legacy" as a badge of honour, a sign of an institution's long-standing trust and stability. But in the boardroom, legacy has become a polite word for friction. It is the weight of decades-old compromises, cultural norms, and siloed data that is currently stalling our ability to move at the speed of the future.
The mistake many leaders make is thinking we can simply digitise our way out of this. We attempt to polish the surface of old systems with new tools, only to find the same systemic rot underneath.
In this brief, I’m challenging the idea that "legacy" is just a technical problem. It is a structural one. I explore why we need to move beyond incrementalism and adopt a "Reinvention" mindset, one that isn't afraid to rewrite the rules from scratch to meet the demands of an AI-driven, exponential reality. It’s time to stop maintaining our inheritance and start architecting our evolution.
