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.
Your Technology Budget Was Built for a Different Economic Model
Most IT budgets still assume annual seats and stable run-rate. Cloud, SaaS, and AI moved the economics. Here’s why “approved” no longer means “predictable”—and what CIOs should ask next.
From Seats to Consumption: The New Technology Forecasting Problem
Seat×price forecasts fail when usage flexes with demand. Here’s why CIOs need technology consumption forecasting that moves with the business—not only with headcount and renewals.
Token Prices Fell. AI Bills Rose. CIOs Need a Different Forecast.
Token unit prices fell ~98%, yet enterprise AI bills rose. Agentic volume and the end of all-you-can-eat pricing broke seat-era forecasts. Here’s what CIOs should change in the next operating review—and what CFOs will ask.
CIOs Need a Better Way to Set Technology Priorities
What deserves attention now is the CIO’s scarcest operating decision. Fragmented systems describe conditions; they rarely assemble the context that turns noise into executive priorities.
Technology Portfolios Need Continue-Change-Stop Discipline
As technology estates grow, inventories multiply and executive clarity falls. CIOs need continue–change–stop decisions grounded in connected evidence—not another isolated dashboard.
CIOs Need Better Evidence for Where to Place the Next Dollar
Where to place the next technology dollar is a portfolio decision under uncertainty. Disconnected business cases favor advocacy; connected evidence favors outcomes the CIO and CFO can defend together.
