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This has consequences for operating
models. The growing reliance on
Managed Service Providers re昀氀ects a
recognition that few organisations can
sustain the pace of change alone. Nearly
all expect to use MSPs in the coming
years (94%), and almost half anticipate
that external partners will deliver core IT
services (47%).
This changes the CIO’s role again.
Technology leadership becomes less
about ownership and more about
orchestration. The enterprise increasingly
depends on a web of vendors, platforms
and specialists and managing that
ecosystem becomes as important as
managing internal teams.
For CIOs, this demands a different kind
of leadership. Less about transformation
projects, more about institutional design.
Less about deploying new tools, more
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about shaping environments in which
autonomous systems, external partners
and human teams can coexist without
eroding accountability.
If earlier chapters revealed how AI is
accelerating pressure, complexity and
risk, this one points to something longer
term. The CIO is becoming the architect
of an organisation that must remain in
control even as intelligence becomes
distributed, autonomy becomes
normal, and control becomes harder to
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