The AI Rorschach Test & the High Cost of Presumption
There are two kinds of leaders in the mid-market right now, and they believe they have nothing in common. The first froze entry-level hiring eighteen months ago. AI can do…
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…
From AI Strategy to AI EBITDA · The Board Shift Most Mid-Market Consulting Has Missed
The board had your AI strategy in hand. You presented it last quarter; the deck was good. Then, a few minutes into this quarter's meeting, a director set it aside…
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…
The Answer Is Cheap · Adoption Is What Costs You, Even More Now Than It Always Has
Ask a frontier model what your AI strategy should be. Give it your industry, your revenue band, your competitive position. What comes back in 2 minutes will be coherent, specific,…
Chips on the Table with our Clients
In most advisory relationships, only one side has money at risk, and it is the client's. The firm gets paid on the calendar; the outcome is something the client lives…
The AI Earthquake · Why Your Old Map Doesn’t Match the Territory Any More
Every organization runs on a map - the accumulated set of assumptions your company navigates by: what things cost, where the margins are, which competitors matter, what customers will pay…
Patience-Flavored AI Paralysis May Kill Your Company
Early in the AI revolution, there were many reasons to wait. For the better part of three years, the smartest thing a mid-market CEO could do about artificial intelligence was…
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…
Within a Decade You’ll Be Able to Buy Competitors for Pennies
Most mid-market CEOs we talk to are still asking the wrong question about AI. They're asking how it will change their cost structure or which functions to automate first. The…
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