This Forbes Technology Council roundup features nearly 20 tech executives naming the problems leaders talk about often but rarely fix — knowledge silos, unclear AI value metrics, fragmented data, and weak AI governance, among others.

Jason Rose of Clearsense contributed the section on application rationalization, pointing out that while 76% of CIOs call it critical to their portfolio strategy, 80% haven't fully implemented an ongoing program. His prescribed fix is organizational, not technical: giving a dedicated "application undertaker" an enterprise-wide mandate to retire legacy apps and eliminate technical debt. His entry mirrors the piece's broader theme — that most of these persistent problems stall not from lack of awareness, but from lack of ownership and follow-through.

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