Does AI-generated code add to, or reduce, technical debt? Amazon Web Services is aiming to reduce it with the addition of new capabilities to AWS Transform, its AI-driven service for modernizing legacy code, applications, and infrastructure. “Modernization is no longer optional for enterprises these days,” said Akshat Tyagi, associate practice leader at HFS Research. They…
Los responsables de TI impulsivos, con altas tasas de fracaso a su espalda en los experimentos con IA generativa, están creando basura tecnológica cuyo mantenimiento costará dinero en cuanto los proyectos queden abandonados. Encuestas recientes indican que los esfuerzos fallidos de IA generativa dejarán a su paso una gran cantidad de código basura, aplicaciones abandonadas…
As enterprises accelerate their digital transformation journeys, they are facing a growing challenge around modernizing infrastructure while maintaining control, compliance, and performance across increasingly distributed environments. The convergence of IT and OT systems, historically managed in silos, can become key to unlocking new operational agility, real-time insights, and secure automation. However, with the creation of…
In “Architecting a high-performance delivery engine,” I laid out the blueprint for a high-performance delivery engine. You’ve re-architected the organization, dismantled the cultural silos, and built a machine capable of turning boardroom promises into reality. But a powerful engine is useless without a dashboard. Without the right telemetry, you’re driving blind. In the boardroom, driving…
An inexperienced worker shows up at an industrial jobsite. The equipment is unfamiliar, and so are the problems that need to be fixed. But instead of calling in a senior technician to explain the task at hand, the worker grabs a tablet, or a virtual reality (VR) or augmented reality (AR) headset and enters a…
In the never-ending quest to deliver a great customer experience (CX), organizations are, of course, turning to artificial intelligence (AI) — specifically agentic AI — for help. In a recent survey of 500 executives with AI experience, 61% said they planned to increase spending on both general CX initiatives and AI-specific programs this year, with…
It’s the slow change no one notices: AI models evolve and people adapt to that. Systems learn and then they forget. Behavioral drift is quietly rewriting how enterprises operate, often without anyone noticing until it is too late. In my own work leading AI-driven transformations, I have learned that change rarely happens through grand rewrites.…
When we hosted our first-ever IT leadership conference, FUSION ’25, I expected to spend most of my time thinking about AI. Instead, I found myself thinking about people. Moderating a panel of CIOs that day changed the way I looked at tech leadership. It wasn’t a conversation about software or infrastructure or even innovation. It…
You’ve led several digital transformation initiatives and delivered financial impacts. Executives recognize your change leadership competencies, having improved both customer and employee experiences. The architectures you helped roll out are now platform standards and are foundational to your organization’s data and AI strategies. Now, you’re asking whether you’re ready for a CIO role, or another…
Back when IT was young — and what was then called “electronic data processing” was wrapping up its efforts to automate core accounting — everyone in senior management wanted IT to be their best friend. Why? Because compared to doing things the manual way, even bad automation was a whole lot better. Everyone loved EDP.…