AI strategy and governance
Separating useful AI adoption from noise, vendor pressure and unmanaged risk.
Advisory
Independent CIO Advisory
Clear, practical advice for technology leaders and executive teams making high-stakes decisions about AI, cloud, cybersecurity, data, platforms and operating models.
Why
Better decisions before commitments become expensive.
Technology decisions rarely fail because nobody had a framework. They fail because incentives, timing, risk, vendor pressure and executive expectations collide at once.
I help leaders slow that moment down, separate signal from theatre, and make clearer decisions before the organisation commits time, money or reputation.
Where I help
CIO operating model
Clarifying how technology teams should be structured, governed, measured and trusted.
Cloud, infrastructure and resilience
Making practical decisions about platforms, risk, cost, security and operational stability.
Enterprise platforms and vendors
Reviewing major technology choices, proposals, assumptions and dependency risks.
Board and executive technology translation
Helping non-technical stakeholders understand trade-offs without drowning them in jargon.
How I work
Independent challenge, practical judgement and clear next steps.
- Independent review of technology plans, proposals and assumptions.
- Advisory conversations before major commitments.
- Practical challenge on AI, cloud, cybersecurity, data, SAP, enterprise platforms and operating model decisions.
- Clear written recommendations where useful. No theatre. No oversized slideware machine.
Good fit
- CIOs, CTOs and senior technology leaders.
- Executives facing important technology choices.
- Organisations under AI, vendor, cyber, cloud or transformation pressure.
- Teams that want independent challenge before committing time, money or reputation.
Not a fit
- Generic implementation staffing.
- Managed services resale.
- Vendor-aligned recommendation work.
- AI for the sake of AI.
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