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Insights, case studies and news from PYXIS
Ideas, lessons and updates on targeting drivers and root causes across people, policies and technology.


Employees are NOT your greatest security risk
Do you know the causal factors in your organization that influence cyber safety? Do you know which are enablers and which are potential risks?
Christiane Wuillamie
4 min read


Why AI Fails When Workflows Are Broken
AI often fails not because the model is weak, but because the workflow underneath it is already unclear, inefficient, and full of friction. That is where value breaks down.
Christiane Wuillamie
5 min read


Why AI Won't Fix What Leaders Refuse to Understand
AI cannot solve what leaders have not properly understood. Without fixing broken workflows, decision rights and system friction first, automation only scales dysfunction.
Christiane Wuillamie
5 min read


Accountability vs blame: Why it matters for boards
Learn how boards can investigate incidents with clear accountability while avoiding blame that suppresses reporting, weakens controls, and hides risk.
Christiane Wuillamie
5 min read


Building a strong cyber security culture in the healthcare sector
Cyber attacks on healthcare institutions are rising fast, with high costs and serious consequences. This case study explains how hospitals can strengthen cyber resilience by focusing on culture — not just technology — and by making cyber security an enterprise-wide responsibility, from trustees and senior leadership to every staff member. The scale of the challenge Healthcare is a prime target for cybercrime. Ransomware, data theft and operational disruption are increasing in
Christiane Wuillamie
3 min read


Cyber security culture: using analytics to identify and mitigate risk
Cyber security risk isn’t just a technology problem. It’s shaped by the conditions people work in: leadership signals, policy design, tool friction, time pressure, peer norms, supervision, reporting climate and third-party practices. This insight piece summarises a multi-client study and explains how a systems-based, analytics-led model can uncover hidden risk drivers and prioritise the right changes. What our multi-client research revealed The goal was to identify root cause
Christiane Wuillamie
3 min read


Reducing bank fraud: strengthening conduct risk culture
With audit, training and compliance programmes in place, why does unethical and fraudulent conduct persist? This insight piece explains why traditional views of “conduct risk" miss the root causes of fraud in financial services and how a systems-based, analytics-led model can uncover hidden causal factors and prioritise meaningful change. Why bank fraud keeps happening High fines haven’t stopped unethical conduct. In recent years, global financial institutions have paid hundr
John R Childress
3 min read


Top Cyber News Magazine Profiles PYXIS CEO Christiane Wuillamie OBE
Recognising enterprise cyber leadership across people, policies and technology Top Cyber News Magazine has published a profile of Christiane Wuillamie OBE, CEO and Co-Founder of PYXIS, highlighting her career in business transformation and her advocacy for treating cyber security as an enterprise issue spanning people, policies and technology. The feature traces Christiane’s journey from software leader to board advisor and founder, noting her track record delivering complex
Christiane Wuillamie
1 min read


CIO Views: PYXIS in ‘10 Inspiring Business Leaders 2021’
CIO Views has published a cover story on PYXIS Culture Technologies and co-founders Christiane Wuillamie OBE and John R. Childress. The feature charts their careers and the formation of PYXIS in 2018, and highlights PYXIS’s ecosystem approach to linking culture with business performance. “PYXIS is an innovative, one of its kind company. The company redefines culture as a ‘business ecosystem’.” CIO Views Five takeaways from the cover story Culture is a system, not a slogan Tre
John R Childress
1 min read


Rethinking Conduct Risk: Drivers, Culture and Controls
Risk is not knowing what you are doing. Warren Buffett ..but Risk is also not knowing what your culture is doing. John R Childress Corporate culture is one of the most written and talked about topics in business today. And rightly so. Culture is more than just vision, values or employee satisfaction. Culture has another side: RISK. The Volkswagen “Diesel Gate” emissions fraud showed a culture out of alignment with its espoused values of customer focus. The insurance miss-sell
John R Childress
4 min read
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