The AI revolution is experiencing some growing pains. Across industries, business leaders are confronting the same challenge: AI pilots dazzle, but they don’t scale. An agent that reasons brilliantly in the sandbox turns unreliable the moment it touches a real, regulated business process. As a result, Gartner projects that more than 40% of agentic AI initiatives…
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 are no longer receiving security updates? Enterprise mobility management (EMM) and mobile device management (MDM) solutions can give IT visibility across a device fleet. But visibility is only part of the equation. CIOs…
Human work has gone through several revolutions over the past few decades, each of them bringing a start to new careers and an end to others. Software careers, which seemed virtually untouchable a short while ago, have been touted as among the most prominent victims of artificial intelligence. On the surface, it’s easy to see…
AI models are becoming short-term tenants in long-lived enterprise data estates. Yet many organizations are remodeling the building around each new occupant. The market keeps asking which model enterprises should trust: open or closed, domestic or foreign, one frontier provider or another. These are legitimate questions. They are also questions with a very short shelf…
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 repeated promises: that anyone can build an application without programming, simply by giving instructions to an agent. He chose Replit, a platform presented as the safest place to do so. He gave himself 12 days and worked with real…
Every CIO can produce an AI adoption dashboard: licenses purchased, seats activated, prompts submitted per week. Boards ask for these numbers, vendors report them and they climb every quarter. What none of them show is whether the tool earned a durable place in anyone’s work. A license counts distribution, not value. An activated seat tells…
In an August 2026 Gartner report, 40 percent of C-level executives say their organizations have “operationalized AI in some business processes,” yet only 13 percent say they have “achieved measurable results and are scaling AI across the organization.” This disconnect reveals a frequent reality: AI may have been “hired”, but companies haven’t onboarded it effectively.…
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 at Work 2026 event this week, the tech giant unveiled what it calls a “single, universal agent” and API in Gemini that can be kicked off from a simple prompt…
For decades, cybersecurity benefited from a constraint that was easy to take for granted: Attackers were limited by human capabilities. Finding vulnerabilities and developing reliable exploits required expertise. Reconnaissance, lateral movement, and adaptation took time and effort. That friction created something valuable for security practitioners: a window in which they could identify and assess risk,…
I have audited enough celebrated technology rollouts to notice a quiet omission across the industry: nobody talks much about what happens to the unit economics once the pilot ends and the software enters daily production. I have anonymized the company and changed identifying details for confidentiality, but the operating economics and workflow behaviors below are…