by Unni Rajendran | Jun 17, 2026 | ITFM Planning
I have worked with large IT organizations whose leaders describe innovation the same way: important in principle, elusive in practice. A sound innovation strategy does not start with ideas – it starts with the conditions that let ideas survive long enough to...
by Unni Rajendran | Jun 10, 2026 | ITFM Planning
Ask any CIO whether their business stakeholders trust their IT investment decisions, and most will pause before answering. Not because the answer is no – but because the honest answer is: not entirely. That gap in trust is the IT credibility problem. And...
by Unni Rajendran | Jun 4, 2026 | ITFM Planning
Every IT governance framework I have worked with was built for a world where a project has a scope, a budget, a delivery date, and a measurable outcome. That world still exists, but AI initiatives do not fit in it. A Gen AI pilot can clear every approval gate and...
by Unni Rajendran | Jun 2, 2026 | ITFM Planning
Every CIO I have worked with believes, in principle, that IT investments should align to business goals. The harder question is how. OKRs for IT teams have become one of the default answers – define the objectives, score alignment, fund what fits. In theory, it...
by Unni Rajendran | May 27, 2026 | ITFM Planning
Ask any CIO whether their business stakeholders trust their IT investment decisions, and most will pause before answering. Not because the answer is no – but because the honest answer is: not entirely. That gap in trust is the IT credibility problem. And...
by Unni Rajendran | May 25, 2026 | ITFM Planning
I’ve sat through more IT planning cycles than I care to count. They rarely go badly in a dramatic way – they just move painfully slowly and produce outcomes that don’t quite make sense. The culprit is almost always the same: no agreed framework for...
