RESEARCH PAPERS
Our research explores digital enterprise transformation, enterprise architecture and information technology. Each paper can be read here or downloaded as a PDF.
IT Workforce Attrition and the Delayed Dead Sea Effect
October 2026Why IT organisations recognise selective attrition only after the point of no return — a theoretical model developed separately for software engineers and system administrators in the Dutch market.
A Best-of-Breed Chain for AI-Assisted Software Development
June 2026Why the hard part of AI-assisted development is verification, not generation — and the best-of-breed chain of loops and gates we build and run the Nashua 360 Enterprise Platform on: Claude Code, GitHub, Vercel, Next.js and Postgres.
The Monoculture Premium
May 2026When standardising the IT landscape makes the enterprise more fragile, and how much to standardise instead — a closed-form optimal number of platforms, effective diversity, and the premium that consolidation business cases do not show.
The Federation Trilemma
February 2026Local autonomy, enterprise-wide consistency and speed of change: why an IT operating model can have any two, and why hybrid models sit in a middle that does not exist — a minimal model bounds the three goods and derives the three coherent operating models.
Six Things Called Digital Transformation, and Why Boards Fund the Wrong One
November 2025A classification of transformation types, the category errors that make programmes fail, and a key for telling which one you are in — six undertakings share one name, and funding one as another is a predictable cause of failure.
DORA regulated IT compliance at holding companies that service local subsidiaries across the EU
March 2025DORA binds each regulated subsidiary individually, yet a pan-European group runs its critical ICT from one shared core in the parent, creating a compliance–control asymmetry and a correlated concentration risk. A minimal model of the trade-off, read against DORA's register, concentration, contract, incident, testing and governance provisions, and a target operating model that keeps the central core while giving every entity and supervisor the governed relationship the regulation requires.
Carve-out Strategy: IT Separation by Design
September 2024Access on request. Contact info@nashua.nl to gain access.
IT Department Solipsism
June 2023When an IT organisation takes its own metrics, roadmap and architecture for the centre of the business, and how to turn the lens back outward — four manifestations of the inward turn, a minimal model of the gap between what IT counts and what the business realises, and the outward-facing measures that close it.