Insights
On IT finance, AI risk, and defensible decisions
Practical thinking on enterprise IT spend visibility, model risk governance, and the architecture decisions that separate numbers you can defend from numbers you merely possess.
Why Your IT Spend Number Is Wrong (And How to Fix It)
Most IT spend figures reported to the CFO are wrong — not because the data is missing, but because it lives in too many systems with no single reconciliation layer.
The SR 26-2 Question Every CIO Will Be Asked
On April 17, 2026, the Federal Reserve, OCC, and FDIC issued updated model risk guidance. The question it creates for CIOs is simple: can you reproduce the number you reported?
Vendor Consolidation: The Number Behind the Thesis
Every operating partner who asks about vendor consolidation wants one number: how much are we spending with this vendor across the portfolio? Getting to that number is harder than it should be.
Shadow IT Is Not a Discovery Problem
Shadow IT is usually framed as a visibility problem — you can't manage what you can't see. That framing misses the harder part: discovery without classification is just a longer list.