1. What should a 200-person company stop buying until it can prove the basics?

Suggested expert: Daniel Eliot. Why it matters: buyers often inherit tools without an agreed sequence of work.

Context: NIST's implementation webinar is a relevant foundation for discussing how a framework becomes action.

Good-answer framing — editorial: identify a small number of business-critical services, accountable owners and evidence checks. Explain the information needed before recommending another purchase, and give an example of a control that is licensed but not operational. Distinguish an acceptable temporary gap from one that requires immediate executive attention.

Follow-up: “What would you ask us to show in the first meeting, and what conclusion would you refuse to draw without it?”