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Strategy, Digital Transformation & Executive Insights for IT Leaders
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.
Tim Bolam, VP of Project Delivery at DHL Supply Chain, on how integration is moving to the operating layer, and why most customers still underestimate how many interfaces they actually need.
Ann Dunkin, former CIO of the U.S. DOE and EPA, on why the shift from code execution to AI orchestration demands that CIOs rethink the bar for entry-level technical talent.
Milind Sathe, Vice President of Strategic Accounts at WinWire Technologies, on why treating agentic AI like a GenAI upgrade is a structural mistake and what CIOs must do differently.
Christoph Wargitsch, CEO of Wargitsch Transformation Engineers, on why CIOs must stop trying to control every AI activity and start governing only the elements that actually matter.
Tom Gomez, Managing Partner at Luminity Digital, on why agentic AI is forcing a structural rethink of who owns data, and why leading firms have already moved data authority closer to the CEO.
Paul Lavoie, VP of Innovation and Applied Technology at the University of New Haven, on how talent and service providers must adopt AI as the necessary orchestrator of a fractured software landscape.
Ari Harrison, VP of IT at BAMKO, explained how shadow AI became a roadmap for enterprise adoption and described a culture where employees engage with security rather than hiding from it.
Your AI agents learn from broken processes, hallway decisions, and sanitized meeting summaries. Here's how CIOs can govern what the model actually sees.
Zach Rossmiller, AVP and CIO at the University of Montana, on how structured change management and pillar-based execution transformed IT from a campus utility into a driver of enrollment growth.
Jorge Cardenas, CIO for the City of Brownsville, Texas, on why CIOs who master only one corner of the technology stack lose the ability to lead the whole.
Caroline Carruthers, Chief Executive of Carruthers and Jackson, on why new AI titles paper over the ownership gaps that only a strong CIO and CDO partnership can close.
Rob Zelinka, Technology Advisor at Leadership, Life & Legacy, on why misaligned AI messaging erodes the workforce trust that enterprise adoption depends on, and why honest intent is the only fix.
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