Leadership
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.

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.

Brandeis University CIO, Jim La Creta on how decades of cultural habits undermine data governance even when the right systems are already in place.

Mir Ali, Head of Enterprise Data & AI Platforms at The Hershey Company, on why the gap between AI strategy and delivery comes down to execution discipline, not technology.

More CIOs are reporting to the CEO, managing larger budgets, and gaining more authority to rework operations around data and AI. The challenge? Not squandering the opportunity.

Jonathan Fozard, CIO at Florida State University, outlined how structured governance and shared language turn AI into coordinated campus-wide progress.

Julia Sears, CDTO at Altus Power, on how replacing AI mandates with peer-led experimentation and practitioner-driven proof build organic adoption across the organization.

Dr. Ken Knapton, CIO at WIN Brands, on how structured friction, tech debt triage, and a 22-minute neuroscience rule shape his approach to conflict management.

Dr. Ken Knapton, CIO at WIN Brands, on how structured friction, tech debt triage, and a 22-minute neuroscience rule shape his approach to conflict management.

Vince Fattore, CIO of RoadSafe Traffic Systems, on succeeding with AI through talent development and redesigned operations.

