N° 04 · THE LIBRARY Reading · Frameworks · Templates

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Field manuals, frameworks, essays, templates and recorded talks — the practitioner's reading room, curated for the executive on the rise.

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N° 01 · Featured this season

The field manual we wish every new executive had read first.

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N° 02 · Framework PDF

The Board-ready AI Assurance Canvas.

A one-page diagnostic for any board that must sign off on an AI programme — without becoming AI engineers overnight.

Read · 12 min → Open
N° 03 · Essay 5 min

On inheriting a broken organisation.

Every newly-appointed executive walks into a room already furnished. A short essay on reading it before re-arranging it.

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N° 04 · Template .docx · .notion

Day-30 stakeholder constellation.

A working template for mapping — and then <em>acting on</em> — the 14 relationships that will decide your first year.

Template → Open
N° 05 · Framework PDF

Digital assurance at executive altitude.

A governance framework for leaders who must sign off on systems they did not commission and cannot fully inspect.

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N° 06 · Recording Video · 38 min

Keynote · Industry 5.0 and the end of the platform era.

A recent keynote on human-centred industry, delivered to a European manufacturing leadership summit.

Recording → Open
N° 07 · Essay 9 min

The three mistakes of the first 100 days.

On moving too quickly, moving too slowly, and — the worst — moving laterally when altitude was required.

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N° 08 · Template .sheet

The 90/180/365-day plan.

A simple planning sheet used with every Ysherpa client in the first week of engagement. Lightly opinionated.

Template → Open
N° 09 · Book Publisher · 2020

Leading in Digital Security.

Yuri's 2020 volume on CISO leadership. Still a working reference used in the executive programmes at Antwerp Management School.

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N° 10 · Framework PDF

Agile at the top: cadence without theatre.

How to install an agile operating rhythm in an executive team without importing the vocabulary that makes boards roll their eyes.

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N° 02 · The shelf

Books kept within arm's reach.

Volume · 01

Strategic Approaches to Digital Platform Security Assurance

Bobbert et al.
Year · 2021
Volume · 02

Leading in Digital Security

Y. Bobbert
Year · 2020
Volume · 03

Improving the Maturity of Business Information Security

Y. Bobbert
Year · 2018
Volume · 04

Exploring Capabilities & Skills for Digital Value Creation

Bobbert et al.
Year · 2018
Volume · 05

Cybersecurity in 60 Minutes

Y. Bobbert
Year · 2018
Volume · 06

25 Years of Group Support Systems

Contributed volume
Year · —
Volume · 07

CISO Handbook

Y. Bobbert
Year · —
Volume · 08

Hoe veilig is mijn aandeel?

Y. Bobbert · NL
Year · —
Volume · 09

Maturing Business Information Security

Y. Bobbert
Year · 2010

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