Articles & Essays

Writing grounded in practice, research and experience.

Selected writing on technology leadership, artificial intelligence, governance, service delivery, business value and organizational change.

Selected Writing

Ideas that connect technology to organizational value.

These essays and articles examine how leaders navigate technology change, govern emerging capabilities, improve service relationships and make better decisions.

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The Help Desk Became the Service Desk. Did Anyone Outside IT Notice?

How service ownership, provider accountability and meaningful measures connect employee support to organizational outcomes and business value.

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AI policy awareness and accountability across employees, IT, security, HR, and management

The AI Policy Exists. Does Anyone Know About It?

Policies don't become governance simply because they're published. Who makes sure employees understand the rules, and who owns the outcome?

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When AI Recommendations Become Decisions: Who Is Accountable?

When AI Recommendations Become Decisions: Who Is Accountable?

As AI recommendations become operational decisions, meaningful human oversight and accountability matter more than a routine approval step.

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InformationWeek article announcement for Your SLA dashboards are green: Is your business better?

Your SLA dashboards are green: Is your business better?

Green SLA dashboards prove operational compliance, not whether technology is improving productivity, resilience and business performance. A look at measuring service value beyond the SLA.

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Stop Chasing Job Postings. Start Reading the Market.

Stop Chasing Job Postings. Start Reading the Market.

How to use AI to turn individual job postings into market evidence, compare that evidence with demonstrated experience and make more intentional career decisions.

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The AI Answer May Be Right. What Did It Leave Out?

The AI Answer May Be Right. What Did It Leave Out?

AI can evaluate more possibilities than we could reasonably review ourselves. But which possibilities ultimately reach us?

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Illustrated desk scene with an official document representing a service failure caused by an erroneous death report

When the System Works and the Service Still Fails

A firsthand examination of how systems can operate as designed while the service still produces the wrong customer outcome — and why detection, data trust and human judgment matter.

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Discovery Before Creation — examining information and patterns before deciding what to create

Discovery Before Creation

A case for using AI to investigate evidence, understand markets and challenge assumptions before asking it to create.

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Technology Changes. Leadership Challenges Repeat.

Technology Changes. Leadership Challenges Repeat.

A leadership framework for navigating technology change through adoption, growth, complexity and governance.

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Enterprise Governance, Business Value and Trusted Decisions

Before You Deploy Microsoft Copilot, Answer These Seven Governance Questions

Seven questions leaders should address around data, access, ownership, information protection, business value, employee judgment and continuing governance.

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From Efficiency to Innovation: How MSPs Become Strategic Partners

From Efficiency to Innovation: How MSPs Become Strategic Partners

How strong MSP relationships evolve from operational excellence to continuous improvement and ultimately to strategic business value.

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Topics

Recurring themes across the work.

The writing spans multiple technology domains, but the underlying questions are consistent: how technology creates value, how leaders govern change, and how organizations build the capability to use technology well.

Technology Leadership

Governance, organizational capability, change and executive decision-making.

Artificial Intelligence

Enterprise readiness, evidence, governance, judgment and business value.

Service Delivery

Operational excellence, continuous improvement, partnerships and outcomes.