CEOs don’t need to understand technology tools…but they do need to own the decisions those tools lock in. When technology oversight is framed around decision quality rather than execution details, organizations move faster, risks become explicit, and board conversations shift from surprises to deliberate trade-offs.

Boards don’t fund technology… they fund judgment. This manifesto reframes CIO board reporting as capital allocation, focusing on risk retired, value protected, and momentum sustained. When CIOs shift from system updates to decision-ready signals, budgets stop being negotiated and start getting approved.