The GuideLine
The GuideLine is a podcast hosted by Stuart Brown, Guidehouse Global Technology Leader, that explores the challenges of tech modernization in regulated industries. Through interviews with industry executives, public sector innovators, and senior technologists, it examines how organizations balance innovation with mission, risk, and public trust. The show focuses on practical advice for building, scaling, and rethinking technology in high-accountability environments, with a particular emphasis on AI and emerging tools.
Episodes
The moment has come for government CIOs
For federal chief information officers, this is a moment of pressure, but also possibility. Today’s government tech leaders are being asked to move faster, deliver better services, and roll out AI responsibly, all at once. In this episode of The GuideLine, Stuart Brown talks with Nancy Sieger, former Chief Information Officer of the IRS and former Chief Technology Officer at the U.S. Department of
Moonshot first, then tools: The way to AI value
AI value doesn’t start with tools. It starts with a clear ambition for how work should change. In this episode of The GuideLine, recorded at the Microsoft Government BizApps + Copilot Summit, Stuart Brown sits down with Ryan Cunningham, Corporate Vice President of Power Platform at Microsoft, to explore why the biggest blocker to AI impact is often not technical at all. It’s organizational.
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The enterprise is changing. Are we?
Agentic AI is rewriting the rules of work—and not in the way most organizations are talking about it. In this inaugural episode of The GuideLine, Stuart Brown (Stu) speaks with Microsoft Corporate Vice President Ulrich Homann (Uli) about why the agentic shift is bigger than a technology upgrade or even a change-management effort. At its core, Uli argues, it reshapes how decisions get made, how wor
