When an IT partner spots early signs that a connectivity carrier is under financial stress, what should they do with that information? Geordie Hogarth argues that the instinct to wait is both understandable and wrong — and that the obligation to raise difficult supply chain conversations before clients are forced to react is one of the clearest tests of whether an IT partnership is genuinely embedded.

After thirty years managing networks across the UK and South Africa, Si Futures examines why business connectivity resilience consistently fails — and the five questions every IT leader should be asking before their next board meeting.