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Dec 04, 2025

US Federal Software Reform Bill Aims To Strengthen Software Management Controls

Advisory Fellow Scott Bickley notes that the federal software reform bill marks a major push to tighten oversight of licensing, spend, and vendor risk. He recommends that CIOs prepare for deeper audits, stronger inventory controls, and clearer accountability across software portfolios.

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Dec 03, 2025

AI Market Correction: CIOs Step Away From the Hype and Vendors Adjust

Advisory Fellow Scott Bickley states that the AI market correction shows enterprises are pulling back from hype and demanding clearer ROI and sustainable pricing. He urges CIOs to reassess vendor contracts, validate use cases, and slow rollouts until value is proven.

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Dec 03, 2025

AWS wants to be the AI everything store

Brian Jackson, Principal Research Director, says OpenAI’s lead on reasoning benchmarks reflects real progress but also highlights gaps between synthetic tests and enterprise performance. He urges CIOs to validate reasoning claims against their own data and workflows before scaling use.

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Dec 03, 2025

SAP Employees’ Trust in Leadership Has Diminished Since the Restructuring

Yaz Palanichamy, Senior Advisory Analyst, says declining employee trust at SAP shows how restructuring without clear communication can damage culture and performance. He urges leaders to be transparent about intent, timelines, and impact so teams stay aligned through change.

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Dec 01, 2025

A Single Outage Exposed How Fragile AI Infrastructure Really Is

Research Director Andrew Sharp explains that the recent AI outage revealed how concentrated and brittle the supporting infrastructure has become. He urges CIOs to stress test their AI pipelines, diversify dependencies, and plan for graceful degradation when upstream providers fail.

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Dec 01, 2025

Cooling Crisis at CME: A Wakeup Call for Modern Infrastructure Governance

Practice Lead John Annand says the CME cooling failure shows how fragile modern infrastructure can be when governance lags behind rapid expansion. He urges CIOs to audit power and cooling dependencies, model worst-case failures, and treat facilities as part of core IT risk planning.

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Nov 29, 2025

Info-Tech: AI transformation needs real expectations, not speed

Jack Hakimian, Senior VP, says AI transformation needs realistic expectations: many enterprise AI pilots still fail due to reasoning flaws and integration complexity. Geoff Nielson, Senior VP of Brand & Reach, adds that successful adoption requires proper technical planning and governance, not sp...

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Nov 29, 2025

7 Reasons IT Teams Fail To Exceed Your Expectations

Heather Leier-Murray, Research Director, says IT teams often fall short not from lack of skill but from unclear expectations and shifting priorities. She urges CIOs to define success metrics, stabilize backlogs, and give teams the psychological safety needed to deliver reliably.

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Nov 26, 2025

Nvidia Clutches Its Crown

Yaz Palanichamy, Senior Advisory Analyst, says NVIDIA’s continued dominance shows that vendor lock-in is tightening as AI stacks consolidate around a few chipmakers. He urges CIOs to map long-term dependencies and assess whether their workloads justify premium GPU spend.

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