Mary K. Pratt

IT leaders are breaking up traditional IT silos to establish more modern, value-centric structures and processes honed to impact the bottom line.

Quantum is quickly advancing toward commercial utility, bringing revolutionary benefits to numerous industries and solving intractable problems.

From revamping security culture to transformation threat hunting operations, 2026's award-winning projects underscore the business value of cybersecurity innovation and leadership.

Achieving measurable business benefit from AI is the top directive for most CIOs, as chief executives urge IT leaders to transform operations, drive revenue, and secure the enterprise.

AI makes coding incredibly fast, but our human-centric workflows are creating massive verification logjams that ruin actual business impact.

To sustain product growth post-launch, organizations must convert early excitement into repeatable revenue by focusing on differentiation and ease of use.

As self-service analytics blooms and teams prioritize speed over consistency, dashboard sprawl can take root, sowing confusion among users and adding extra costs and work.

The investment advisory firm learned early to tie AI initiatives to quantifiable business value — a cultural transformation that ensures business solutions rather than sunk costs.

Cloud costs are now too wild and engineering-dependent for old-school budgets, so finance and IT need to team up and treat spend as an everyday choice.

Our current work tools, like Jira and Slack, exist to manage human delays, but AI agents are fast enough to make traditional backlogs obsolete.