Show overview
Heavy Strategy has been publishing since 2020, and across the 6 years since has built a catalogue of 142 episodes. That works out to roughly 75 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a fortnightly cadence.
Episodes typically run twenty to thirty-five minutes — most land between 29 min and 37 min — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language Technology show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 2 weeks ago, with 20 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2024, with 31 episodes published. Published by Packet Pushers.
From the publisher
From technology to workplace culture, from geopolitical trends to economics, Heavy Strategy debates pivotal questions in enterprise IT. Hosts Johna Till Johnson & John Burke bring their technical expertise, analytical acumen, and contrasting viewpoints to discuss complex topics of interest to IT leaders. Frequently irreverent and always thought-provoking, these are the conversations you wish you could have at the leadership table. Tune in and join the think tank, where unanswered questions are better than unquestioned answers.
Latest Episodes
View all 142 episodesHS141: EA vs AI
HS140: AI and Technical Debt – Boon or Bane?
HS139: When “One Cloud to Rule Them All” is NOT the Answer: Regionalization
HS138: When “One Cloud To Rule Them All” Is NOT the Answer: Repatriation for AI and more
HS137: Did AI Turn “Everybody Codes” into “Nobody Codes”?
HS136: How AI Is Changing Enterprise Software Development (Sponsored)
HS135: AI Spyware in Chrome Spotlights Attractions of DaaS
HS134: Dodging the AI Iceberg: Midcourse Corrections
HS133: Approaching Zero…Trust (Sponsored)
HS132: Heart of Glasswing
HS131: Cybersecurity Strategy: Defending Against AI
HS130: Wait, AI Doesn’t Secure Itself? Developing an AI Security Strategy
HS128: Planning for an AI Bubble Burst
How should you shape your IT strategy around the possibility–or is it probability–that the AI economy is a true bubble and will burst soon? John Burke and Johna Johnson revisit the signs indicating that an AI bubble is in full swing and pointing to the potential for collapse in the near term. Doomsaying having been... Read more »
Ep 129HS129: Achieving Operational Excellence
The best strategy in the world won’t succeed if a team falters operationally. But what is operational excellence, and what does it take to acquire it? Cal Poly faculty member (and former Intel strategist) John Miranda shares his thinking with our Heavy Strategy listeners. He discusses concepts like the theory of constraints, root-cause analysis, and... Read more »
Ep 127HS127: You’re Not Thinking About Your Network the Way You Should (Sponsored)
Mav Turner, Chief Product Officer at Kentik, joins John Burke and Drew Conry-Murray for an in-depth conversation on the importance of deep visibility into enterprise networks. As networks grow more complex and stretch from on-prem and WAN to multi-cloud and edge locations, this sponsored discussion explores how good visibility supports everything from daily operations to... Read more »
Ep 126HS126: AI Everything, AI Everywhere, AI All At Once
At CES in January, NVIDIA, AMD, Siemens and others spun elaborate tales of a world suffused with AI: AI in the cloud, AI at the desktop, AI in the factory, AI underneath enterprise software and as the UI for enterprise software and agentically accomplishing anything and everything in a world of embodied, physical AI. Johna... Read more »
Ep 125HS125: How to Choose an IT Hiring Service
Every employer knows to conduct background checks. However, conducting background checks on IT professionals requires an extra layer of verification, given the privileged access they typically have to IT systems and tools. Moreover, in this AI era, background checks need to be deeper and more effective than before–in the past we didn’t need to verify... Read more »
Ep 124HS124: Administration DDoS on AI Regulation
The recent U.S. Executive Order 14365, Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence, is the administration’s latest attempt to prevent the enforcement of most of the AI laws passed in individual US states. Because it is only an executive order (EO), it cannot directly nullify, supersede, forestall, or put a pause on state-level laws.... Read more »
Ep 123HS123: What Can You Stop Worrying About in 2026?
Are there some things that can come off your strategic planning radar for IT and cybersecurity in 2026? If you ask AI, you’ll get some surprising answers. Johna and John take a critical look at this AI-generated list to see which ones may or may not be “solved enough” to fall off the strategic planning... Read more »
Ep 122HS122: Insider Threats in the Age of AI
Leaders may shy away from thinking about insider threats because it means assuming the worst about colleagues and friends. But technology executives do need to confront this problem because insider attacks are prevalent—a recent study claims that in 2024, 83% of organizations experienced at least one—and on the rise. Moreover, AI and deepfakes vastly enhance... Read more »