https://sailingdatalakes.com/tags/strategy/Recent content in Strategy on SailingDataLakesHugo -- gohugo.ioenSun, 16 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://sailingdatalakes.com/posts/fraud-cost-center-vs-profitability-baseline/Sun, 16 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://sailingdatalakes.com/posts/fraud-cost-center-vs-profitability-baseline/Most fraud teams I’ve seen are set up as a cost center: an allocated budget, a mandate to keep losses under some number, and an implicit assumption that every dollar spent on controls is a dollar of friction imposed on the business. Framed that way, the team’s incentives point in exactly one direction — minimize loss — while Growth and Product’s incentives point in the other — minimize friction. Nobody designed this conflict on purpose.