Perspective

How I think about decisions
that are expensive to get wrong.

Permanent executive judgment on technology decisions, organizational change, and transformation. Not a blog. Not a LinkedIn feed. Not news.

What This Is

Executive Perspectives

Each Perspective answers a recurring executive question. It is written as evergreen point of view, then connected to the decisions leaders actually face, the evidence that supports the judgment, and a clear next step.

LinkedIn is a publishing channel. This page is the permanent knowledge base.

Opening Perspectives

The library

Each Perspective publishes as a connected unit: point of view, supporting evidence (Decision Story or Executive Pattern), related decisions, and a path to conversation.

Published
Technology Should Follow Business

How do you keep technology investment from becoming the strategy?

Primary decision area: Investment & Risk · Modernization · Decision Story
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Modernization Fails When Decision Systems Fail

When delivery stalls, is the problem architecture, or how decisions are made?

Primary decision area: Modernization & Transformation · Leadership · Decision Story
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Build Organizational Capability, Not Vendor Dependency

How do you scale engineering without outsourcing the decisions that matter most?

Primary decision area: Investment & Risk · Leadership · Executive Pattern
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AI Is an Operating Model Problem

Where does AI actually belong, and what must be true before it creates value?

Primary decision area: AI & Emerging Technology · Leadership · Executive Pattern
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Evidence

A Decision Story already on the site

Perspectives without evidence read like essays. Decision Stories and Executive Patterns attach as proof. The first Decision Story is live on the homepage.

When the right call was to stop treating a delivery crisis as an architecture crisis

A Fortune 100 modernization stall that looked technical, and was not. Decision, diagnosis, recommendation, outcome, and executive lesson.

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Related Paths

If you recognize the situation

You do not need to choose the engagement. Start with the decision in front of you.

Also Published

External recognition

External features are useful context. They are not a substitute for Executive Perspectives.

Executive Biography
Leadafi Executive Biography Series
April 2026
Christopher R. Marrs: Bridging Technology, Operations, and Leadership to Turn Complexity into Opportunity

A full executive biography published by Leadafi as part of their Executive Biography Series, profiling Christopher R. Marrs's career and approach to technology leadership. The feature examines how complex organizational challenges become strategic decisions.

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Next Step

Start with the decision in front of you

If a Perspective or Decision Story describes your situation, the easiest next step is a conversation.

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Direct: chris@chrismarrscto.com  ·  +1-720-808-0916