Opinion

AI is freeing up capital. Most companies have no plan for what comes next

Saving money with AI is just step one; if you don't actually reinvest those cash wins into better tools, training and breaking down silos, the ROI just vanishes.

By Chad Dunavant

Jul 13, 20267 mins

Artificial IntelligenceIT LeadershipIT Strategy

Your AI rollout is succeeding. Your organization is failing

Technical AI success is creating massive liability because enterprises fail to build the governance and accountability infrastructure required by regulators.

By Patrick McGarry

Jul 8, 2026 8 mins

Artificial Intelligence IT Leadership Laws and Regulations

The AI ROI gap isn’t a model problem. It’s a workflow problem

AI isn't failing because models are bad; it's struggling because most industries lack the structured workflows needed to trust its output.

By Pete Johnson

Jul 8, 2026 9 mins

Artificial Intelligence Digital Transformation IT Leadership

Preparing for infrastructure constraints, from memory shortages to power limits

AI growth and physical supply limits are forcing CIOs to extend hardware lifecycles and shift from financial to long-term physical resilience planning.

By Chris Carreiro

Jul 7, 2026 8 mins

Data Center Design Energy Efficiency Energy Industry

The data reckoning: How exponential growth is rewriting the rules of cost, risk and AI

Companies are drowning in invisible data, which jacks up storage costs, creates massive security blind spots and feeds AI models total garbage.

By Carl D’Halluin

Jul 7, 2026 7 mins

Data Governance Enterprise Storage Risk Management

Modernizing legacy IT with AI without triggering regulatory risk

The real challenge is not translating COBOL: It’s ensuring the transformation survives the first audit.

By José Enrique Ibarra

Jul 7, 2026 7 mins

IT Strategy Laws and Regulations Mainframes

With AI, a wrong answer is a bug. A wrong action is an incident

Banking AI is shifting from harmlessly drafting emails to taking real actions, so we need to lock down what these autonomous agents are allowed to do.

By Kajal Singh and Raunak Bidasaria

Jul 7, 2026 9 mins

Banking Data Governance Financial Services Industry

Playing to win at the AI casino

Nimesh Mehta of National Life Group argues that CIOs need to approach AI less like a cautious technology program and more like a disciplined portfolio of bets designed to increase the odds of beating the house.

By Michael Bertha

Jul 6, 2026 7 mins

C-Suite CIO IT Strategy

AI doesn’t eliminate inefficiency. It amplifies it

As organizations scale AI, many are discovering that the biggest obstacles are not technical. They are rooted in process design, decision-making and accountability.

By Nick Colisto

Jul 6, 2026 8 mins

Artificial Intelligence IT Leadership

Why AI agents will make your governance playbook obsolete

Old-school tech playbooks can’t keep up with rapid AI bots, so we need to start using AI to govern other AI before things spin out of control.

By Volker Rath

Jul 6, 2026 7 mins

Artificial Intelligence Data Governance IT Governance

Addressing consequence blindness

Dashboards show what is happening. A consequence layer shows what else moves when something changes.

By John Reuben

Jul 2, 2026 10 mins

Analytics IT Leadership ROI and Metrics

4 reasons AI projects fail that have nothing to do with technology

AI projects usually tank because employees are scared for their jobs, company culture resists change and leaders care more about optics than alignment.

By Richard Mendis

Jul 2, 2026 8 mins

Artificial Intelligence Digital Transformation IT Leadership

Why AI savings are an illusion without process re-engineering

Slapping AI on top of a broken workflow won't magically save you money — it just speeds up your existing operational mess.

By Sara Magdalena Goldberger

Jul 2, 2026 11 mins

Artificial Intelligence Digital Transformation IT Leadership

Shadow agents: How IT leaders must govern ‘headless’ AI before it breaks the enterprise

Invisible AI agents are running tasks inside your network without ever logging in, meaning IT leaders need a whole new way to track them.

By Sunil Gentyala

Jul 1, 2026 8 mins

Data Governance IT Governance IT Governance Frameworks

A framework for operational autonomy: Integrating CloudOps, FinOps and AIOps

How to keep your cloud and AI costs from running wild without losing your mind.

By Magesh Kasthuri

Jul 1, 2026 15 mins

Data Governance Enterprise Architecture IT Governance Frameworks

AI is exposing the real limits of enterprise cloud strategy

Why CIOs must turn infrastructure decision-making into a strategic capability, not an IT function.

By Vipin Jain

Jun 30, 2026 11 mins

Hyperconverged Infrastructure Infrastructure Management Multicloud

Live on the first floor while building the second

A CIO's guide to building a strategic finance roadmap that delivers ROI from week one.

By Keith Linhart

Jun 30, 2026 8 mins

Artificial Intelligence Budgeting Data Management

The future of AI belongs to organizations that govern what they spend as well as what they build

AI gets expensive fast, so companies need to start tracking what their tech actually costs, not just what it can do.

By Allan Dabre

Jun 30, 2026 7 mins

Artificial Intelligence Budgeting Data Governance

Grounding, not models, will define your AI advantage

Models are just rented, fast-depreciating engines that everyone has access to. Your actual AI moat is the custom data grounding pipeline you build around them.

By Shania Rasheed Nalagath

Jun 29, 2026 8 mins

Artificial Intelligence IT Leadership IT Strategy

Beyond automation: How much does AI really cost?

Your senior execs using high-token AI aren't busting your budget; it’s the quiet, high-frequency automated background tasks that are secretly draining millions.

By Raúl García Vega

Jun 29, 2026 9 mins

Artificial Intelligence Budgeting IT Management

The rise of the product engineer: How AI is reshaping modern tech teams

AI is shifting tech teams away from narrow specialization toward product-minded engineers, boosting development speed by up to 45% through shared ownership.

By Oleksandr Kondratiuk

Jun 29, 2026 8 mins

Artificial Intelligence Engineer Staff Management