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…

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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
by Martin Bookallil, CIO & CTO Advisor The organisations most likely to disrupt your industry are probably not studying it. They are watching an adjacent industry solve the same structural…
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…
Software and services vendors are quietly running one of the cleanest arbitrage trades in recent memory, and most mid-market buyers haven’t noticed. The mechanism is simple. AI has compressed vendor…
For two decades, "stronger together" was corporate wallpaper. It announced mergers nobody asked for. It headlined campaign buttons and pep-rally decks. It got slapped on the lobby wall above a…
The numbers are brutal. RAND Corporation puts the AI project failure rate at over 80%; that is twice the failure rate of non-AI IT projects. MIT's 2025 research found that…