Why CIOs Should Reopen the Build Vs. Buy Question
The article urges CIOs to rethink the long‑standing default of buying SaaS solutions because AI‑assisted development now delivers custom software in weeks rather than months, and non‑technical staff can build functional apps. Managed services have also taken over many traditional engineering concerns, making custom builds viable for workflows that differentiate a business. While commodity functions such as payroll and identity remain best served by off‑the‑shelf products, strategic processes should be evaluated for in‑house development. Consequently, the CIO’s role shifts from gatekeeper to architect and overseer of citizen development governance.
From Urgency to Execution: Why CIOs Must Start Now and Prove Value Fast
Telecom CIOs face mounting pressure to turn AI from a promise into measurable business value, and TM Forum is offering a concrete pathway. Its Open Digital Architecture (ODA) provides a modular, API‑driven framework that lets service providers replace monolithic stacks...
Mars Hires New Snacking Business Executive
Mars, Inc. has appointed Kemal Cetin as global chief digital and information officer for its snacking division, effective August 3. Cetin will report to Mars Snacking president Andrew Clarke and steer the digital, data and technology agenda across a $36 billion portfolio...
LogicMonitor Appoints Dave Patnaik to Drive APAC
LogicMonitor has appointed former Red Hat APJ vice president Dave Patnaik as its new vice president for Asia Pacific. Based in Singapore, Patnaik joins the company’s global go‑to‑market leadership team to accelerate regional sales, expand partner networks, and drive adoption of...
Five-Case IT Business Case Appraisal Framework
Major IT investments often collapse due to weak appraisal rather than execution. The Five‑Case IT Business Case Appraisal Framework offers CIOs a disciplined, evidence‑based process that moves beyond simple ROI calculations, incorporating strategic, economic, commercial, financial, and management analyses. It...
What CIOs Need to Know About the 2026 Crypto Collapse
The cryptocurrency market suffered a sharp downturn in early June 2026, with Bitcoin sliding to $64,692—a drop of more than 25% for the year and wiping roughly $160 billion off its market value. The slide followed a 2025 rally that peaked...
Beware of the genAI Token Trap
Enterprises are racing to embed generative AI, yet token‑based billing creates a hidden cost trap. Every prompt can trigger retrieval, tool calls, and agentic loops that multiply token consumption far beyond the user’s view. Current market subsidies keep prices low,...
Calculating the Business Value of Enterprise Storage Technology
The article outlines how enterprises can quantify the business value of modern storage platforms, moving the technology from a traditional cost‑center to a strategic asset. It highlights a new payback expectation of less than a year, driven by software‑defined storage,...
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett CIO Tim Connors on Modernizing Legal Tech Infrastructure
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett hired CIO Tim Connors in late 2022 to overhaul a fragmented, on‑premise IT landscape serving 2,000 staff across 15 global offices. He consolidated four data centers, introduced a Nutanix AHV hypervisor and a software‑defined WAN, cutting...
The 12 Most Strategically Important IT Initiatives Today
CIOs across industries are prioritizing AI—especially generative and agentic models—alongside security, data analytics, and automation as their top strategic initiatives for 2026. The State of the CIO survey shows AI at the forefront, followed by agentic AI, analytics, and risk...
Buy, Build or Govern: The CIO Decision Model AI Just Broke
The rise of generative AI is upending the long‑standing CIO mantra of “buy unless there’s a compelling reason to build.” AI‑assisted coding tools now let small teams prototype functional applications in days, making custom development far cheaper and faster than...
VA CIO Nominee Vows to Create Program Management Office
President Trump’s nominee for VA chief information officer, Gary Shatswell, told the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee that creating a program management office will be his top priority if confirmed. He highlighted the agency’s sprawling IT workforce of more than 16,000...
13 Recent Health System CIO Moves
Hospital and health‑system CIOs are experiencing a wave of moves, with new hires, promotions and retirements reshaping leadership across the United States. A 2024 WittKieffer survey found 53 % of healthcare CIOs have served three years or less, and only 39 %...
CIO’s First 100 Days Playbook
The CIO’s First 100‑Days Playbook offers a step‑by‑step framework for technology leaders to secure credibility during the critical onboarding window. It breaks the period into pre‑start preparation, a 30‑day listening phase, 60‑day quick‑win assessments, 90‑day roadmap alignment, and a 100‑day execution...
Cloud Operations Best Practices Guide
The newly released Cloud Operations Best Practices Guide reframes cloud management as an enterprise‑wide discipline rather than a pure technical migration. It groups cloud ops into four domains—leadership, business management, security, and platform engineering—and maps them to concrete practices such...