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,…
BOSTON — Business leaders are looking beyond a single-minded focus on artificial intelligence and the returns generated by individual agents as they confront the broader challenge of continuously reinventing their organizations around what emerging technologies make possible. This shifting mindset emerged during CIO 100 Leadership Live Boston, where discussions began with the human dimensions of…
Xi Jinping left Washington on September 25 with an agreement to keep talking, a phone line and on generated text, images, audio and video. The White House fact sheet lists three AI items: the leaders agreed to call the technology “super intelligence,” established a dialogue with the next exchange due by November 2026, and agreed…
US President Donald Trump has ordered the federal government to call artificial intelligence “Super Intelligence,” while keeping the technology’s legal definition unchanged and relying on industry to set the rules for its use. In an executive order, the White House administration said modern systems “far exceed what was envisioned when the term ‘Artificial Intelligence’ first…
For most of computing history, performance was an engineering problem you could reason about at your desk. Profile the code, count the database calls, size the hardware. If a system was slow, the cause was usually something you could hold in your head: an unindexed query, a synchronous call that should have been async, a…