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Assessing Gartner’s Convergence With the Hansen Models™, 1998–2026

September 23, 2026

The industry is converging on a question this archive has asked since 1998. Is your organization asking it yet?

When a Consumer Mindset Serves the Business World

September 16, 2026

Does your AI initiative's success lurk in the shadows? If yes, what is your next step?

Two People Found the Same Gap From Opposite Directions. Here Is What Sits Beneath It.

September 13, 2026

Why did Frank stop at the door in his CDO Magazine article?

Solving a 1998 Delivery Failure and a 2026 Traffic Anomaly With the Same Trace

September 6, 2026

Trace backward from a failure and you find the cause. Map forward toward an outcome and you find failures of unknown origin after the fact.

Your AI Guardrails Are Road Cones

September 4, 2026

Guardrails close on the output. Why don't they close on the operation?

Legacy Drag and Legacy Draft,

September 2, 2026

Every technology era inherits the last one's unfinished business. Legacy Drag is what you inherit. Legacy Draft is what you choose.

Cisco Just Gave 90,000 People an Agent. The Architecture Is Not New — and the Hard Question Is Still Unanswered.

August 29, 2026

The most important sentence about Cisco's 90,000-agent rollout came from Cisco.

So Which Is It? Is CLM Dead, or Is It Being “Reborn” in the AI Era?

August 18, 2026

A contract is a record of what was agreed. It is not a record of how the work is actually done.

"The AI governance crisis isn't a governance problem. It's a skipped-step problem. You cannot govern what you never validated — and a system I built in 1998 already proved it, using that era's technology."

Recent CIO Surveys and CPO Conferences Made Me Think of Genchi Genbutsu (現地現物): Here’s Why.

July 28, 2026

Before we optimize the system... are we certain we've correctly modeled the one we're standing in? — The C-Suite