Michael Krigsman
For more than a decade, Michael Krigsman has interviewed nearly 1,000 of the world’s top CEOs, CIOs, and technologists on CXOTalk, the live conversation series on enterprise AI, digital transformation, and leadership. He is a globally recognized analyst whose commentary has been referenced in the media more than 1,000 times. Before CXOTalk, he spent his career studying why technology projects succeed, and why so many of them fail.
To bring the people running the world’s largest organizations into honest, in depth conversation, so every leader can learn how real transformation actually happens.
I turn rare access to the C-suite into insight that leaders can actually use.
I am Michael Krigsman, an industry analyst and the founder of CXOTalk. For over thirty years I have worked at the center of enterprise technology: first building the tools and methods that large companies use to run major projects, then studying why those projects so often fail, and now hosting the conversations that help leaders get it right.
CXOTalk started in 2013 as a labor of love. Today it is a library of nearly 900 episodes and 569 guests, and it remains the only discussion show with C-level executives that is live and takes questions from the audience in real time.
Enterprise AI and Digital Transformation
The questions every executive is wrestling with right now: where AI actually creates value, how to govern it, and what separates the organizations that transform from the ones that stall. It is the throughline of nearly every recent CXOTalk conversation.
The Art of the Executive Interview
Getting a CEO who is trained to stay on message to think out loud instead. After nearly 1,000 interviews, this is the craft I care about most: preparation, genuine curiosity, and a room smart enough that leaders stop performing and start being honest.
Why Technology Projects Fail
Before CXOTalk, I wrote more than 1,000 columns for ZDNet on the management and leadership reasons behind troubled IT projects. The technology is rarely the real problem. The names change, from ERP to AI, but the underlying causes barely move.
Recent posts.
Notes on enterprise technology, leadership, and the craft of the interview, drawn from three decades of conversations with the people who run the world’s biggest organizations.
What 900 Executive Interviews Taught Me About Digital Transformation
The patterns that separate leaders who transform from those who stall have almost nothing to do with technology.
Read post →Why Most Enterprise AI Projects Still Fail, and How Leaders Can Fix It
The names of the technologies change. The reasons projects fail barely move.
Read post →How to Get a CEO to Say Something Real on Camera
The hardest part of hosting CXOTalk is not booking the guests. It is creating the conditions for an honest answer.
Read post →Let’s Connect.
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