Strategy, governance, operations, and leadership from theory to practice.
Advisory, fractional consulting, publications, and talks from a senior operator.
Extending Web Standards for the Agent Era and Beyond
Agent governance keeps inventing new protocols. HTTP has been extended through headers for 26 years without tollbooths. Why that's the playbook to copy.
Ordovera Advisory
AI governance and enablement advisory for mid-market organizations that need adoption programs or risk frameworks. Assessments, workshops, and cohort programs built on the Counterpoint Model™ and a framework that fits your organization.
MADE, Inc.
Fractional technology leadership and delivery for organizations that need broad IT guidance and direct engagement, from strategy and architecture to GRC, audit, and vendor management. Parent to practices Ordovera Advisory and MADE, Inc. Media.
MADE, Inc. Media
Independent writing and podcasts on technology risk and product strategy. Home of The Oversight and Products (technology risk) & Companies (technology innovation).
The Oversight
Candid conversations on technology risk and governance.
Long-form guest conversations with people charged with oversight of risk in all its forms, what actually works, and where it fails.
Products & Companies
Specific products and companies as a way to explore broader patterns.
Research-heavy analysis of products and companies, and what their decisions say about the wider technology market.
“My talks clarify thinking, focusing on the friction between emerging technology and established realities.”~ Brian Fending
Keynotes, workshops, and board sessions on IT strategy, AI governance, enablement, technology leadership, and navigating operational realities.
Brian Fending on IT Strategy
One or two deep-dives a month on technology leadership, governance, and risk. No filler.