Strategy, governance, operations, and leadership from theory to practice. (With receipts.)
Advisory, fractional consulting, publications, and talks from a senior operator.
Your Technology Decisions Reflect Your Priorities (And Your Values)
The org chart, the architecture, the staffing model, the security reporting line, and the audit posture are confessions. They reveal what an organization's leadership actually believes about risk, capability, and competitive advantage, regardless of what the strategic plan says. AI governance and enablement, when you finally get to it, is just the newest and most honest expression of everything that came before.
Ordovera Advisory
AI governance and enablement advisory for mid-market organizations that need risk frameworks and adoption programs running in parallel, not sequentially. Assessments, workshops, and cohort programs built on the Counterpoint Model.
MADE, Inc.
Fractional technology consulting for product leaders, engineering directors, and founders who need broad IT guidance and direct engagement. Strategy, architecture, and delivery leadership from a senior operator with deep, full-spectrum experience.
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.
Scripted, research-heavy solo 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
A newsletter published on Substack and LinkedIn. One or two deep-dives a month, no filler.