Software supply chain risk used to have a fairly contained definition: open-source packages, build pipelines, and the occasional compromised maintainer account. AI agents have changed that. An agent assembles capability at runtime, pulling in models, MCP servers, libraries, code, tools, skills, and plugins, then acts on its findings. Agents operate at machine speed in parallelized…
To succeed today, CIOs must be strategic partners. It’s no longer something to work toward achieving. “What used to be an aspiration, having a seat at the table, that’s now needed,” says George Westerman, a senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, founder of the Global Opportunity Forum, and co-chair of the MIT…
Regulated industries have been dealing with the equivalent of sovereign data for a long time. And as the geopolitical situation makes it more broadly relevant, it doesn’t make it any easier to deal with. From concerns about the reach of the US CLOUD Act and what telemetry or sensitive business data gen AI models might…
I have spent most of this year on planes. Seven countries, somewhere north of a hundred customer conversations, most of them with teams well past the pilot stage. The thing I keep coming back to is what changed between the January conversations and the July ones. In January and February, as agentic coding adoption climbed,…
This summer, our big concern as IT leaders was figuring out how to drive adoption and ROI for our AI purchases while keeping shadow AI at bay. My advice then: Give people transparent, sanctioned tools and put in place operational discipline to ensure the right tools are being deployed at the right times and in…