Every technology professional working today owes their career, in part, to someone who took a chance on them. The software engineers, cybersecurity analysts and infrastructure specialists on our teams didn’t arrive fully formed and ready to perform. Someone hired them, trained them and gave them room to grow. That’s worth remembering now, because the tech…
I’ve seen organizations reach a point in a modernization program where the technology itself is no longer the biggest risk. A decision was made for a full rip-and-replace. The new environment is ready. The migration plan has been tested. The business case has been approved. But the team responsible for delivering it is also responsible…
Many IT leaders still struggle to find ROI when deploying AI agents at scale, but a few IT sweet spots are emerging as use cases that can provide CIOs tangible cost relief. Rhonda Baldwin, CIO at LaunchDarkly, says coding agents and service desk agents are helping the SaaS provider cut IT costs. “Coding agents increase…
In one stretch last year, several executives at the same level in one organization each told me, separately, that the hardest part of their job was talking candidly to each other. Each had spent 15 to 25 years in technology, and none of them was struggling with the technology. I’ve coached more than 1,000 technology…
New technology executives often discover the skills that made them successful early in their careers can be the very things that limit their success as a CIO, particularly as the scope, complexity, and expectations of the role expand. Few leaders understand that evolution better than AlTi Global CTO Phil Dundas, my recent guest on the…
I spent the early part of my career building database systems, managing Oracle’s storage engine group and later helping build Aster Data. That work taught me to watch the gap between benchmark results and production behavior. When the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) was formed in 1988, it was because vendors, customers and researchers lacked…
OpenAI says true agentic AI has finally arrived, pushing beyond the trivial capabilities of early-stage virtual assistants. This week at OpenAI Dev Day, the company introduced Dots, which CEO Sam Altman described as “remarkably capable, always-on” agents powered by GPT‑6 Astra. Dots have their own cloud computer, can be accessed in ChatGPT, Slack, or Teams,…