I&O Strategy

Strategy provides focus by creating a clear vision of the future, what you will do and what you won't, with a plan for how you will get there.

A Conversation with Rich Corbridge

While automation, orchestration and agentic AI are key technologies at Segro, Rich explains that collaboration with the business teams has been the key to defining priorities and identifying opportunities, driving deployment of new AI-based workbenches, avoiding the need for ERP replacement.

Driving Change – Becoming an I&O Intrapreneur

Dan Twing and I return to the theme of shifting enterprise I&O (including automation) to an entrepreneurial focus that shapes and prioritizes initiatives that have measurable business outcomes.

AI Automation Anxiety – Back to Fundamentals

While there is a great deal of hype around AI's ability to completely change enterprise IT, from an automation perspective it is just another technology to be integrated and orchestrated.

Takeaways from Gartner IO&CS 2025 (Las Vegas)

IO&CS reflected a realistic and pragmatic perspective of how AI is rapidly changing enterprise I&O, while acknowledging that autonomous AI's contribution to improved operations is years away, and that the cost of AI tools is likely to rise to pay for the huge costs of building AI data centers.

Axistra Group will be at Gartner IO&CS 2025

Tom O'Rourke will be attending Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies 2025 in Las Vegas (December 9-11)