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Thought-provoking analysis of current and consequential technology topics—designed to inform the conversation and surface what deserves deeper examination.
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Explore Ronin Advisory perspectives on emerging topics, executive questions, and the implications technology decisions can carry for an organization.
Finance, operations, and technology can each produce an accurate dashboard and still arrive at different answers. The disagreement often begins with ownership, definitions, and process—not visualization.
The platform launched, training concluded, and the project closed. Yet staff still rely on spreadsheets, email approvals, duplicate entry, and manual reporting. The missing result may not be another technology problem.
An IT team reporting to a nontechnical executive may be entirely reasonable. The risk appears when technology decisions become enterprise decisions without the leadership structure, authority, or perspective to support them.
Technology debt often begins with a reasonable shortcut. Its business cost emerges later—in slower change, fragile processes, rising risk, and fewer credible options.
Not every organization needs a full-time CIO or a technologist in every board seat. Every technology-dependent organization does need credible executive technology judgment when strategy, capital, risk, and operations are being decided.
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Cyber resilience asks a practical question: what must the business still be able to do when the systems it relies on are disrupted?
Fewer vendors can simplify contracts and support, but they can also leave more of the business tied to the same provider, infrastructure, and exit path.
A successful AI pilot proves that something can work in a controlled setting. Scaling it means confronting real workflows, costs, ownership, and value.
AI agents can take action across business systems. Once they do, familiar questions about access, oversight, vendors, and accountability become harder to answer.
Questions worth asking
The right question can expose an assumption, clarify ownership, or reveal what leadership needs to understand before committing.
A proposal can name a product and budget while different leaders are still picturing different results. What exactly is being approved?
AI conversations can move faster than ownership, data, and governance. Which unresolved assumption could determine the outcome?
Some risks appear technical until their business consequences surface. When do they become leadership decisions?
A vendor can meet contractual obligations while the intended business result still slips. Where does accountability sit then?
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