Proving AI EBITDA · Metrics That Boards Actually Believe
The question that kills the number This quarter you brought the board a real result. Not a pilot count or a license utilization chart, but finished work: the AI…
NAIC Just Wrote Your AI Governance Job Description · Solving Without a Full-Time Hire
Market conduct exam letters do not announce themes. They enumerate. Somewhere between the request for complaint-handling logs and the request for producer licensing records, a paragraph now appears that did…
Maximizing Your AI Investment · From Efficiency Traps to Hybrid Intelligence
by Craig Utley, CIO Consultant Last year, global corporate investment in artificial intelligence more than doubled, reaching $581.7 billion. Yet, a harsh reality has set in for many executives: over 80% of…
The Best of Both Worlds · Balancing Citizen AI Exploration with Production AI Rigor
Somewhere in your organization right now, a mid-level analyst is quietly doing the most valuable AI research your company will fund this year. She is not on the AI steering…
2026 Buyer’s Guide for AI & Tech Leadership
How to navigate a crowded, confusing market and find the right technology leadership for your organization The market for AI Strategy, Virtual CIO, Fractional CIO, and Interim CIO services has…
Human in the Loop or Rubber Stamp? · Achieving Real AI Oversight
Ask the people running your AI pilots a simple question: when a human "reviews" the model's output before it ships, what exactly are they doing? If the honest answer is…
Last Year Your Competitors Subscribed to AI Tools · Now They’re Hiring Them
Twelve months ago, your AI strategy fit on an invoice. So many seats of Copilot, a ChatGPT Enterprise tier, maybe a specialized tool or two for the people who asked…
Innovation is a Process · What 3 Months of Successful Production AI Actually Looks Like
We’re proud to present another unveiling of our proprietary approach to innovation, from our CEO’s “Innovation is a Process” series… Picture the next ninety days of your AI program. Is this…
Strategies for Executing Your Technology Roadmap
by Ira Shapiro, CIO Consultant Quarter one is already behind you and Q2 is moving fast. Take a second and ask yourself, “Does my technology roadmap look like the…
The Rack of Reinvented Wheels Running Your Company
Imagine walking into your server room and finding a rack of forty mismatched units, each built by a different employee, each running a critical workflow, none of them documented, none…