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Strategy, Digital Transformation & Executive Insights for IT Leaders

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.

Eli Potter argues enterprise AI needs its own checks and balances, borrowing separation of powers, red-teaming, and federalism from the U.S. Constitution.

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.

Wilf Russell, Chief Technology Officer at Livmor, on why the instinct to create new C-suite titles for AI repeats the same mistake enterprises made with data leadership.

Ryan J. Crosby, three-time CIO and Strategic Advisor at Zertain, on why owning P&L starts with mapping where revenue leaks across cross-functional workflows.

Robert Fulk, CIO for the Indiana Secretary of State, on how governed orchestration as the operating layer converts fragmented government AI experiments into production systems.
