Strategy question
A large insurer's CEO wants to announce Sierra quickly, but their compliance and platform teams are blocking launch over PII handling, auditability, fallback reliability, and core-system integrations. How would you create alignment, unblock the decision, and turn customer-specific asks into a roadmap that still strengthens Sierra's reusable platform?
- Sierra
- Strategy
- Hard
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