Why Hiring a Chief AI Officer Won’t Fix Your AI Execution Problem
By Howard Oliver, MBA Many organizations are hiring a Chief AI Officer, Chief Transformation Officer, CTrO or similar senior AI leader to accelerate AI adoption; a logical step, as AI is now central to operations. However, leadership alone does not solve the execution challenge. These positions are incredibly important and help to provide much-needed guidance for the […]
The Rise of the Private Brain
Why today’s AI news matters more than it looks By Howard Oliver, MBA CEO and Founder, Strates Infrastructure Consortium Inc. Today we saw something important. Mistral introduced Forge today (March 18, 2026), a platform designed to help enterprises move beyond generic AI systems by enabling them to train and adapt models on their proprietary […]