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Strategy, Digital Transformation & Executive Insights for IT Leaders

M&A success is decided in post-close execution. In this exclusive preview of his upcoming book Make IT Work: An IT Playbook for Mergers and Acquisitions, CIO Jason James covers repeatable playbooks, quick wins, and handling outages and human crises.

Bindu Chanagala, Vice President of Performance Insights at CommonSpirit Health, on why AI in healthcare moves only as fast as the governance around the data and the clinicians who act on it allow.

Rebecca Fox, Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Relentica and former Group CIO at NCC Group, on why technology leaders earn trust only by delivering, and why AI has raised the bar on what delivering means.

Winston Ma, Co-Founder of Dragon Global and former head of North America for China's sovereign wealth fund, on what CIOs building AI stacks can borrow from sovereign investors.


The first 72 hours after a deal closes are chaos. Here, Jason James shares how to turn that chaos into structure.

Eli Potter argues that human stewardship, fellowship, mentorship, leadership, and sponsorship are the only governance mechanisms that actually work when agents operate at machine speed.

AI promises to modernize legacy systems quickly, but it's also generating new technical debt at scale. How CIOs can prevent the cycle from spiraling.

Scott Smeester argues the costly AI knowledge gap lives between CEO and CIO, not CEO and board, and briefings won't solve it.

Inundated with AI marketing and anxious to keep a lid on IT spend, CEOs and other business leaders are increasingly looking to the CIO for guidance on which technology will help drive the most value.

Veteran technology executive CIO Michael Spires on the evolving role of CIO as translator and orchestrator, aligning people, processes, and technology around shared business outcomes.

For Andrea Markstrom, success comes down to three core tenets: Starting with the user, building the right team, and connecting with both internal and external networks.

Scott Smeester argues roadmap inflation isn't a prioritization problem. It's a missing decision, and CIOs need a kill list to fix it.

Jason James shares five rules for surviving M&A data room review, from indexing documents to spotting change-of-control clauses before they cost you.

A 25-year veteran of the technology industry, Intel CIO Cindy Stoddard talked to CIOnews about the importance of IT basics, why technology modernization starts with process, and building a culture to power the company of the future.

Jason Cohen, founder and CEO of Right Stack Advisors, on the preflight inspection AI programs keep skipping and the scorecard that gives every initiative a named owner.


