Isaac Sacolick

Announcing StarCIO's AI Strategy & Governance Workshops - 15 Advisories to select from & evolve your roadmap. We guide the leadership team on a pragmatic AI vision, define clear guardrails, and establish a responsible path to value. starcio.com/starcio-workshop… #AI #CIO

Thank you @Cisco - ready for Sting 3.0 in Brooklyn.

Risk 4: Workflows no one knows about. "Shadow AI can create trouble when employees depart for new jobs. Organizations lose the provenance and context for the outputs the shadow AI had produced on the job." #ShadowAI #CIO drive.starcio.com/2026/11/sh…

RT "AI is not an on/off switch, it's more like a gate. It's got a floor and a ceiling. There are constraints and boundaries that have to be built in long before you deploy." #AIagents #AIgovernance @Star_CIO drive.starcio.com/podcast/ai…

At the Brookyn Paramount, a guest of @Cisco and to see Sting 3.0. “The upload capacity has to far exceed the download for a great fan experience.”

"AI affords us an opportunity to completely re-engineer the organization, but it has to be done in a rational way. The borders between departments are dissolving." #AI #CIO drive.starcio.com/podcast/pl…

RT AI pilots don't stall because the AI failed. They stall because leaders deployed tools before defining business value. If your metric is 'adoption,' you've already lost the plot. #AI #CIO @Star_CIO youtube.com/watch?v=kVuWrcYM…

Risk 3: Spending limits push work to personal accounts. "AI spending limits have the potential to fuel shadow AI. When employees hit their limits, what's stopping them from moving work to personal accounts?" #ShadowAI #FinOps drive.starcio.com/2026/11/sh…

"The biggest new practice that needs reinvention is enterprise architecture." #AI #CIO drive.starcio.com/podcast/pl…

Join Friday's Coffee Hour with Digital Trailblazers! AI’s 2027 Reality Gap: Big Expectations, Tight Supply, Hard Choices linkedin.com/events/75233739… #AI

Risk 2: Over-privileged AI agents on borrowed access. "The agent can turn a legitimate identity into a persistent path for privilege abuse, untraceable changes, and bad decisions at machine speed." #ShadowAI #CISO drive.starcio.com/2026/11/sh…

"An agent doesn't know how to do these things until you give it the context and a very heavy semantic layer around that context to understand the nuances of the business." #AI #AIagents drive.starcio.com/podcast/pl…

RT If 60% of employees use AI but only 14% say it's changed how work gets done, your pilot didn't fail. It never had a goal in the first place. #AI #ChangeManagement @Star_CIO youtube.com/watch?v=kVuWrcYM…

Risk 1: Confidential data pasted into public AI tools. "An employee, often innocently, inputs confidential data into a public AI tool." #ShadowAI #CISO drive.starcio.com/2026/11/sh…

"In order to justify the costs that you don't know, you need to know the value, which you don't know.? That's the AI budget paradox. #AI #FinOps drive.starcio.com/podcast/pl…

Exhaustion is not a badge of honor in leadership

RT AI governance should not be a second priority - even for those still working to deliver AI business value. If you're deploying agents without it, you're building AI debt faster than you're building AI value. #AIgovernance #CIO @Star_CIO drive.starcio.com/2026/10/go…

"Treat shadow usage as a roadmap. Identify the highest-value use cases and move them onto governed tools grounded in company data, so governance becomes the path to scale rather than a brake." #ShadowAI #CIO drive.starcio.com/2026/11/sh…

"Most companies run on annual project budgets. The trouble is, a lot of the time with AI, you don't understand the value until after you've been experimenting for a bit." #AI #FinOps drive.starcio.com/podcast/pl…

Reserve your spot at Friday's Coffee with Digital Trailblazer. Our topic this week: AI’s 2027 Reality Gap: Big Expectations, Tight Supply, Hard Choices linkedin.com/events/75233739… #AI

"There's innocent use of shadow AI, derived from people who are curious to see what they can do with it. To some degree, that should be encouraged." Run the department of know, not the office of no. #ShadowAI #CIO drive.starcio.com/2026/11/sh…