12 standout CIO skills every company wants
Are you looking to become or move forward as a CIO? Then you’ll need to polish your business and leadership skills across a range of domains or risk career stagnation. “CIOs really need to be...
View ArticleThe great AI pricing reset is coming. Are you ready?
Per-token pricing has become the default commercial language of generative AI, and practically every budget conversation now happens in those terms (tokens consumed, tokens generated, cost per million...
View ArticleYour AI governance model is already obsolete
IT and security leaders are well-versed in the risks of unauthorized integrations, misconfigured tools and vendor compliance. Now, AI has introduced a separate and harder-to-detect problem. Across...
View ArticleGoverned context: The key to scaling enterprise AI
The AI revolution is experiencing some growing pains. Across industries, business leaders are confronting the same challenge: AI pilots dazzle, but they don’t scale. An agent that reasons brilliantly...
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Why CIOs should choose Samsung Galaxy Enterprise Edition
CIOs, it’s time to rethink your mobile device lifecycle Let’s start with an uncomfortable question: how much risk is hiding in devices that are no longer receiving security updates? Enterprise...
View ArticleAI won’t empty the software factory: Why the new engineers act like foremen
Human work has gone through several revolutions over the past few decades, each of them bringing a start to new careers and an end to others. Software careers, which seemed virtually untouchable a...
View ArticleYour AI foundation must extend without surrendering control
AI models are becoming short-term tenants in long-lived enterprise data estates. Yet many organizations are remodeling the building around each new occupant. The market keeps asking which model...
View ArticleThe real agent risk that Replit’s database deletion revealed
In July 2025, Jason Lemkin, founder of SaaStr and a well-known investor in enterprise software, decided to publicly test one of AI’s most repeated promises: that anyone can build an application...
View ArticleYou’re measuring AI adoption. You should be measuring AI abandonment
Every CIO can produce an AI adoption dashboard: licenses purchased, seats activated, prompts submitted per week. Boards ask for these numbers, vendors report them and they climb every quarter. What...
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AI is your newest hire. Manage it like one
In an August 2026 Gartner report, 40 percent of C-level executives say their organizations have “operationalized AI in some business processes,” yet only 13 percent say they have “achieved measurable...
View ArticleGoogle wants to be the gatekeeper for enterprise AI agents
Google seems to be making a strategic play to control the AI infrastructure layer, not just roll out another shiny new agent. At its Gemini at Work 2026 event this week, the tech giant unveiled what...
View Article5 rules CIOs must rewrite for the frontier AI era
For decades, cybersecurity benefited from a constraint that was easy to take for granted: Attackers were limited by human capabilities. Finding vulnerabilities and developing reliable exploits...
View ArticleI audited an award-winning AI project. The case study left out the cloud bill
I have audited enough celebrated technology rollouts to notice a quiet omission across the industry: nobody talks much about what happens to the unit economics once the pilot ends and the software...
View ArticleWhy product management’s org placement shapes its success
In my experience, where you place product management is as critical as whom you hire and how you train them. A team expected to serve the whole organization needs the influence and independence to act...
View ArticleYour employees are building AI agents. Do you know what they’re doing?
Eager to incorporate agentic AI into their work, employees are taking matters into their own hands, creating their own AI agents, regardless of organizational approval, and a not insignificant number...
View ArticleFrom petrodollar to AI currency: Who will control the money of the agentic...
Over 20-plus years in the enterprise trenches, I’ve watched multi-million-dollar technology transformations stumble over the same blind spot. We spend months debating cloud architectures, database...
View ArticleBest project management certifications of 2026
Behind every successful IT project, you’ll find a highly skilled project manager. From hardware and software upgrades and ongoing security patches, to application development and the software rollouts...
View ArticleIs your architecture preventing you from calculating AI value?
I argued in my last column, The case and model for real-time AI cost visibility at the infrastructure layer, that the AI measurement problem looks to be finally solved as a technical matter, and that...
View ArticleAMD’s plan to boost production could ease AI supply chain concerns
As the demand for AI infrastructure continues to outstrip available capacity, AMD is planning a substantial increase in CPU and GPU supply in 2027. During her recent visit to Taiwan, AMD CEO Lisa Su...
View ArticleAI is making software cheap to build. Is your organization ready for what...
What happens once building software stops being expensive? That’s the question at the center of this piece, and I think it’s about to matter for every CIO/CTO managing an enterprise technology budget....
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