IT Strategy and Governance

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 domain…

Your 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 i…

Governed 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 daz…

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…

Your 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 …

The 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 r…

You’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 numbe…

Google 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…

Bridging Algorithmic Design and Regulatory Standards in Enterprise AI

Your models can be both cutting-edge and compliant if you stop treating governance as the final hurdle and start building it into every sta…

Innovation in Ireland: How Irish brands scale with Gemini Enterprise

In recent decades, Ireland has grown into a vibrant hub for global technology. As modernization accelerates, Irish organizations — spanning…

Top CIO events for 2027

Throughout the year, tech executives will be able to compare notes across the most pressing IT trends, from AI cost management to cyber res…

From petrodollar to AI currency: Who will control the money of the agentic economy?

Over 20-plus years in the enterprise trenches, I’ve watched multi-million-dollar technology transformations stumble over the same blind spo…

Part 4: Safety and governance for LLM systems: guardrails, PII, audit, and memory

AI platform sprawl undermines enterprise ROI

CIOs can play a larger role in advocating for an AI standard, leading to improved consistency and less complexity, said Scott Zoldi, chief …

Who actually controls enterprise AI?

There is no dominant model for how businesses oversee AI, according to a Thoughtworks report. But CIOs feel responsible for the technology'…

AI is making software cheap to build. Is your organization ready for what comes next?

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 matte…

SAP to acquire TechWolf to augment its SuccessFactors HCM platform

SAP is continuing its acquisition spree to help its enterprise customers address what it sees as one of the key challenges around scaling A…

AI governance’s real gap is accountability, not technology

Most enterprises govern AI the way they would any other IT rollout: deploy dashboards, institute policies, and conduct periodic reviews. Ha…

10 types of ambidextrous leadership required in the AI era

10 types of ambidextrous leadership required in the AI era In the world of corporate management, we face questions every day that don’t hav…

SAP advances its autonomous AI agenda with yet more Joule Assistants and agents

SAP has launched new AI agents and assistants across multiple domains at its SAP Connect event, saying that its October update is fulfillin…

Google overhauls cloud modernization portfolio with new AI agents

Google is overhauling its cloud modernization portfolio by bringing its existing migration and modernization tools along with new agentic m…

Before you buy more AI, diagnose the gap you actually have

A senior executive at a large enterprise recently described a capital allocation review to me. The committee had spent two hours deciding w…

QA Automation Frameworks for Enterprise Applications

Modern enterprise applications demand testing strategies that can keep pace with continuous delivery, distributed architectures, and increa…

Money can’t buy enterprise trust

I thought the AI boom was producing a new level of bad behavior, what with MongoDB CEO CJ Desai peacing out, not to mention Google’s earlie…

The CIO’s new mandate: Rearchitecting enterprise work

What if the most disruptive change to enterprise software is not another application, but needing fewer humans to operate the applications …

The Proof Problem: Why Product Development ROI Stays Unmeasured

Note: This is part three in our three-part series on strategy execution: PROVE. The gate closes. The launch ships. The team moves to the ne…

Everybody wants to rule the world

At Oktane a couple of weeks ago, Okta and a group of enterprise heavyweights, including AWS, CrowdStrike, Databricks, Google Cloud, Salesfo…

AI doesn’t have to wipe out humanity for the governance model to fail

The latest warnings about artificial intelligence are difficult to brush aside. Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned last month, walki…

IT modernization: Still a make-or-break project for CIOs

Sumit Johar has been modernizing BlackLine’s IT environment since becoming CIO of the software company in early 2024. As a longtime IT lead…