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.

There's no standard pipeline for developing CIOs. Stuart Evans explains why seasoned leaders and AI-native technologists need each other, and what CIO development should look like moving forward.

In an interview with CIO News, Todd Paladini discussed the role of data and AI in the restaurant industry, the importance of platforms, and why technology leaders need to get out of the "IT box".

Matteo Ganzaroli, former VP of IT at Comet, on why digital transformation succeeds only when business objectives lead and IT works to enable them.

George Alexandrou, Enterprise Technology Strategist at Bridgepointe Technologies, explained why today's CIO is better positioned than ever to become tomorrow's CEO.

AI agents learn from your people's behaviors, not just their data. Eli Potter explains why human role modelship is now a hard input to AI strategy & how CIOs can use culture to compound AI's strength.

Rob Zelinka, CISO at Sharetec, explained how modern CIOs earn boardroom influence by mastering business fluency, financial acumen, and executive coalition-building.

Manfred Boudreaux-Dehmer, NATO's inaugural CIO, on why business acumen and strategic communication have replaced technical mastery as the defining traits of technology leadership.

Parag Pujari, CIO at Jurgensen Companies, transformed IT into an enterprise orchestration layer that cut rebill cycles and unlocked business value.

Vishal Vallabha, Chief Digital & Technology Officer and PE Value Creation Leader, reframes the CIO role around margin growth, adoption quality, and two speed governance.

Andrea Bergamini, VP and CIO at global materials and infrastructure giant Orbia, on the evolving role of the CIO in making foundational investments that outlast any single leader.

Michael Skaff, CIO of Sequoia Living, explained how the new mandate for CIOs is acting as a strategic catalyst for enterprise change.

More than just a well-known consumer brand, Expedia Group's Karen Bolda explained how the company is capitalizing on decades of travel data to help thousands of B2B clients tap the power of AI.
