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CAPITAL: Asset Rich and Cash Poor Is a Choice, Not a Condition

August 10, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

A standing guide for owner-managed businesses, their boards and their advisers The Dawgen Value Architecture™ — six pillars of private company value. This guide addresses Pillar 4. The Dawgen Value Architecture™ Most owner-managed businesses in the Caribbean are worth less than the people who built them believe. That is not a comment on the quality...

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GOVERNANCE :The Board That Meets Once a Year Is Not a Board

August 10, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

A standing guide for owner-managed businesses, their boards and their advisers The Dawgen Value Architecture™ — six pillars of private company value. This guide addresses Pillar 3. The Dawgen Value Architecture™ Most owner-managed businesses in the Caribbean are worth less than the people who built them believe. That is not a comment on the...

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DEPENDENCE: Key-Person Risk Is a Valuation Discount, Not a Compliment

August 9, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

A standing guide for owner-managed businesses, their boards and their advisers The Dawgen Value Architecture™ — six pillars of private company value. This guide addresses Pillar 2. The Dawgen Value Architecture™ Most owner-managed businesses in the Caribbean are worth less than the people who built them believe. That is not a comment on the quality...

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VISIBILITY: Why Caribbean Private Companies Are Worth Less Than Their Owners Think — and How to Fix It

August 9, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

A standing guide for owner-managed businesses, their boards and their advisers The Dawgen Value Architecture™ Most owner-managed businesses in the Caribbean are worth less than the people who built them believe. That is not a comment on the quality of those businesses. It is a comment on the difference between value that exists and value...

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One Page, Every Quarter

August 6, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

What belongs on the board’s cyber and AI page — and what does not There are two kinds of cyber paper that reach Caribbean boards, and neither of them works. The first is thirty slides prepared by someone technical, containing patch counts, vulnerability severities, tool coverage percentages and an architecture diagram. It is accurate, it...

Who Says So?

August 5, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Why boards are being offered confidence about AI when what they need is assurance A director asks a reasonable question at a board meeting: are we comfortable with how AI is being used across the business? Management answers yes. The answer is sincere. It is delivered by people who are competent, who have thought about...

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You Didn’t Buy AI. You Bought Software That Now Has It.

August 5, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Why your third-party contracts are the largest unexamined AI exposure in your organization Ask most executive teams in this region whether their organization uses artificial intelligence and you will get a confident answer. Not yet. Perhaps next year. We are watching it carefully. Then ask a narrower question. Which of your vendors use AI...

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Nobody Approved It. Everybody Uses It.

August 5, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Why artificial intelligence has already entered your organization — and what your board can do about it There is a particular kind of risk that never appears on a risk register, because nobody ever made a decision that would have put it there. No paper went to the board. No business case was approved. No...

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IFRS 17 Beyond Compliance: Turning Data Into Strategy

August 2, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

IN BRIEF IFRS 17 was implemented as a reporting obligation. What it actually built, in most insurers, is a management information system that nobody has been asked to use. Three things the standard produces were not previously visible: how much unearned profit is stored in the existing book, which products are losing money at the...

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Parametric Insurance: Will Your Trigger Actually Pay?

August 2, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

IN BRIEF Parametric cover pays on a measured index rather than on an assessment of damage. That is what makes it fast, and it is also the source of every difficulty it creates. An earlier article in this series dealt with how much risk to retain, insure or leave unfunded. This one is about...

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CAPITAL: Asset Rich and Cash Poor Is a Choice, Not a Condition

DEPENDENCE: Key-Person Risk Is a Valuation Discount, Not a Compliment

One Page, Every Quarter

Who Says So?

You Didn’t Buy AI. You Bought Software That Now Has It.

IFRS 17 Beyond Compliance: Turning Data Into Strategy

Parametric Insurance: Will Your Trigger Actually Pay?

August 10, 2026CAPITAL: Asset Rich and Cash Poor Is a Choice, Not a Condition

August 10, 2026GOVERNANCE :The Board That Meets Once a Year Is Not a Board

August 9, 2026DEPENDENCE: Key-Person Risk Is a Valuation Discount, Not a Compliment

August 9, 2026VISIBILITY: Why Caribbean Private Companies Are Worth Less Than Their Owners Think — and How to Fix It

August 6, 2026One Page, Every Quarter

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