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Three books by Bridget Convey

Leading organisations face unprecedented change. This collection of books helps directors and senior executives understand and respond to the challenges of AI, cyber security, quantum risk and modern governance through practical frameworks, boardroom questions and ready-to-use tools.

The Board Decision Framework AI: A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing Quantum Risk: The Elephant in the Boardroom

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Book 1

The Board Decision Framework

The DIRECT Method for Traceable, Defensible and Deliverable Board Decisions

Boards rarely fail for lack of structure. They fail because the senior view in the room carries the day and nobody is set up to challenge it. The Board Decision Framework builds the challenge into the decision itself, so that every decision rests on evidence, not rank.

DIRECT is six steps, used together in the room as the decision is made:

Define the Decision
Identify Outcomes
Review Options
Evaluate Risk
Confirm Accountability
Trigger Points

Better Decisions, Better Outcomes.

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Also available: the free Board Decision Scorecard and the DIRECT Method guide.

Book 2

AI: A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Artificial Intelligence

What AI is really doing to business, families and society, and what leaders should do about it. The companion to The Board Decision Framework: one book shows you how to decide, the other shows you what you are deciding about.

The book sets out the good beyond efficiency, the bad beyond job losses, and the ugly: the warnings AI's own pioneers have given, and the risks that remain unknown. It gives boards and leaders a clear, evidenced view of what they are actually deciding about.

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Book 3

Quantum Risk: The Elephant in the Boardroom

Use the DIRECT Framework to Mitigate Quantum Risk

Quantum computing is the risk your board cannot see coming, and the one it will be asked about afterwards. It threatens to break the encryption that protects payments, customer records, contracts and digital signatures, and the damage may only be found years after the event.

Attackers do not need to wait for the technology to arrive. They can copy encrypted data today and read it once quantum computing catches up, so the breach may already have happened long before anyone finds it. This book applies DIRECT to that risk, so your board has a clear, evidenced answer when it is asked what it knew and when it acted.

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About the author

Bridget Convey

An AI consultant, business analyst and project manager with 30 years in UK financial services across banking, insurance and asset management, at senior, executive committee and board level. ISO/IEC 42001 certified. Oxford Saïd AI Strategy and Leadership Programme. Founder of Aztec AI Group.

Bridget Convey wrote these books as a series, intended to be read together or separately. AI: A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing and Quantum Risk: The Elephant in the Boardroom each set out an emerging risk that organisations, society and individuals need to understand more clearly. In her career in UK financial services, Bridget has seen first hand how risk is identified, managed and escalated within organisations. She believes board and senior level decision making has not kept pace with the scale of risk that AI and quantum computing now present. This led her to develop DIRECT, a method for board decisions that are traceable, defensible and deliverable, to help organisations protect themselves and the customers they serve.

The books share practical methods and evidence. They do not replace legal or compliance advice.