CIOs are under pressure to deploy more AI agents and demonstrate their business value. But a “move fast and break things” approach can lead to rogue AI agents, AI debt, business impacts, and compliance issues. Avoiding mistakes starts with a strong plan and foundational practices. CIOs must have a process to evaluate an AI agent’s…
My mum has asked me the same question for almost 30 years. “So…what is it you actually do?” I’ve explained it hundreds of times. I lead the team that look after the network, the servers, the applications and cyber security that help the business work. And more recently, AI. She’d smile politely, nod and then…
At Mercedes-Benz, “Digital First” has long been more than just a theoretical concept; it’s a lived strategy, as a visit to the Digital Factory Campus in Berlin demonstrated. Now, the automaker aims to take the next step in scaling artificial intelligence: Together with the German low-code specialist n8n, the company is introducing a global platform that will…
On the modern factory floor, the phrase “industrial equipment” no longer tells the whole story. It conjures images of steel, hydraulics, conveyor belts and machinery built to perform the same task with unwavering precision day after day. Physical engineering remains fundamental, of course, but it’s no longer the sole measure of a machine’s value. The…
“We’re generating more code than ever. My senior engineers are drowning in review,” a VP of engineering at a mid-sized software company told me. I hear this from engineering leaders almost every week. AI was supposed to fix delivery, but it just moved the bottleneck. If you feel the same way, you’re neither wrong nor alone: in CloudBees’ 2026 State of Code…
Organizations have spent years and billions of dollars hardening their defenses against cyberattacks, but prevention alone no longer settles the question that matters most to a board. Accenture’s State of Cybersecurity Resilience 2025 report stated that organizations had faced an average of 1,876 cyberattacks in a single quarter, a 75% increase over the prior year.…
Microsoft is betting that the integration of HorizonDB, the cloud-native PostgreSQL alternative it is developing, with Azure will attract more enterprise AI and agentic workloads to its cloud services. Enterprises may not be willing to take that bet. It’s been nine months since Microsoft unveiled HorizonDB, but the service remains in public preview with no…
The most complicated IT environments I’ve worked in weren’t built that way on purpose. They got there through a sequence of reasonable decisions made by reasonable people under real pressure. A cloud provider added because the incumbent couldn’t hit a latency requirement. A point solution brought in because a business unit needed something fast. A…
Each year the CIO 100 Awards showcase outstanding IT initiatives, and every year they illustrate the power and potential of technology to transform how people work, how organizations perform, and the value they offer to customers. The 2026 cohort of winners is no different. Each one demonstrates how IT executives and their teams successfully move…
Earlier this year, the National Bureau of Economic Research released survey results from over 6,000 U.S. leaders showing that while AI adoption is widespread at 69%, we’re seeing little to no impact on productivity. Anecdotally, we’ve seen leaders from top companies echo that refrain. It’s the reckoning many CIOs, CTOs and COOs are navigating as…