Opinion

Shaping a lasting AI strategy in a fast-changing world

Since everyone has access to the same AI tools, winning is no longer about the tech itself, but how smartly you build your strategy around it.

By John Wei

Jun 26, 20269 mins

Artificial IntelligenceIT LeadershipIT Strategy

Preventing organizational amnesia in the age of AI

Headcount reductions to let AI take over is a trap if you haven't captured their institutional knowledge first. Without that context, AI just messes up faster.

By Kash Mehdi

Jun 23, 2026 9 mins

Artificial Intelligence IT Leadership IT Operations

The hidden cost of becoming AI-ready?

Measuring AI maturity by employee token consumption rewards activity over value, masking the need for genuine process modernization.

By Karan Gupta

Jun 23, 2026 7 mins

Artificial Intelligence Budgeting IT Strategy

What 20 years of AWS taught me about agentic AI

AI agents are great at coding, but they tend to wander off-track unless you use explicit specs, solid design documents and strict testing to guide them.

By David Yanacek

Jun 23, 2026 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Approaches Software Development

Building ‘idiot proof’ systems is not the answer

Stakeholder knowledge and behavior remain key to CIOs’ success. Investing in training and telling a meaningful story are the way to achieve it.

By Thornton May

Jun 23, 2026 5 mins

IT Leadership Innovation Project Management

Successful AI adoption lies in collaboration, not replacement

AI isn't coming for your job; it's actually here to team up with you so you can drop the busywork and focus on creative, big-picture decisions.

By Akio Ueda

Jun 23, 2026 10 mins

Artificial Intelligence IT Leadership IT Strategy

How AI agents are turning enterprise apps into decision systems

Basic AI copilots are great for tasks, but if you want real business results, you need AI agents that can actually coordinate enterprise decisions.

By Viral Gandhi

Jun 22, 2026 12 mins

Artificial Intelligence IT Leadership IT Strategy

Why your AI pilot died in a data ownership meeting, not the demo

Your AI demo worked perfectly, but the project will die in meetings if you don't figure out who actually owns the data beforehand.

By Scott Smeester

Jun 22, 2026 7 mins

Artificial Intelligence Data Quality IT Leadership

The ghost in the governance: Why gold standard manuals fail

Catastrophic failure happens when invisible architecture — unwritten culture and informal power dynamics — decouples from formal governance, not from missing rules.

By Raghu Achat

Jun 22, 2026 8 mins

IT Leadership IT Operations

CIOs: tear down the wall between resilience and data security

AI isn't just a new threat vector. It's exposing a dangerous gap that enterprises have long ignored. Here's how to close it.

By Zeus Kerravala

Jun 19, 2026 7 mins

C-Suite CIO IT Strategy

Why the FDA’s new real-world evidence guidance ends the era of structured-data-only submissions

The FDA's new rules mean you can no longer just submit basic health data codes, since the most critical patient details are hidden in clinical notes.

By David Talby

Jun 19, 2026 6 mins

Government Laws and Regulations Medical Devices

Your next data center could soon be in space. Here’s why you should care

Running AI is totally draining Earth's power grids, so your company's next data center might actually be launched into space.

By Floyd DCosta

Jun 19, 2026 12 mins

Aerospace and Defense Industry Data Center Design Manufacturing Industry

Why most zero-trust programs stall after year one

Zero-trust rollouts start strong with quick wins like MFA, but they usually stall in year two when messy, real-world tech complexity ruins the initial momentum.

By Vishnu Gatla

Jun 18, 2026 5 mins

Access Control Identity and Access Management Zero Trust

How to put a clear AI strategy into focus

In order for IT leaders and their organizations to drive productivity and limit liabilities, it’s essential to first establish a cohesive AI vision. Here, I offer some inside track from my book, The Ultimate Disruptor, on how to map out a plan.

By Tim Scannell

Jun 18, 2026 6 mins

Business IT Alignment C-Suite CIO

CIOs want strategic PMOs. I’m not sure they know what they’re asking

AI is forcing CIOs to define what a strategic PMO actually means by using six critical questions to separate real strategy from mere corporate slogans.

By Sara Gallagher

Jun 18, 2026 14 mins

IT Leadership IT Strategy Project Management

The future of insurance is contextual, conversational and customer-first – thanks to AI

AI is shifting insurance toward a hyper-personalized, context-driven model, requiring strict guardrails to blend automated efficiency with human expertise.

By Daniel Herrington

Jun 18, 2026 8 mins

Financial Services Industry Insurance Industry Markets

Flash pricing — the elephant in the room for enterprise storage

The all-flash storage dream is dead. AI datasets and supply chain chaos have shattered the pricing myth, proving that you still need cheap HDDs to scale.

By Ken Claffey

Jun 17, 2026 4 mins

Enterprise Storage Flash Storage Technology Industry

Who owns the control plane? Google Cloud Next 2026 and the real contest in agentic AI

The AI race isn’t about models anymore — it’s about who controls the data context. To avoid massive vendor lock-in, you need to own your system's ontology.

By Dion Eusepi

Jun 17, 2026 13 mins

Enterprise Architecture Google Cloud Next Google Cloud Platform