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exec utive s u m ma ry
Executive Summary
his year’s CIO Report captures a
T
is uneven. The result is a leadership
moment of transition for enterprise
challenge rather than a technical one.
technology leadership. AI is no
CIOs are being asked to regulate pace,
longer emerging at the edges of the
de昀椀ne priorities and preserve coherence
organisation, it is becoming central to
at a time when momentum is pushing
how work is done, how decisions are
relentlessly forward.
made and how value is created. For
CIOs, this marks a shift in responsibility
From Con昀椀dence to Capability
that is both practical and structural. The
CIOs are con昀椀dent in their relative AI
question is no longer how to introduce AI,
maturity compared to peers, and initial
but how to manage it, scale it, and reduce
experimentation is already delivering
as much organisational risk as humanly
value in targeted areas. But scaling that
possible.
value remains dif昀椀cult. Skills shortages,
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data quality issues, infrastructure
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The research shows overwhelming
constraints and organisational resistance
appetite for AI, alongside growing
continue to hold progress back. This
awareness of the pressures it creates.
chapter shows that AI maturity is not
CIOs are navigating a landscape de昀椀ned
about tools alone. It is about building
by acceleration, fragmentation and rising
repeatable, dependable capability that
expectations. They are being asked to
can survive audit, scrutiny and long-term
move faster, deliver more value, and
operational demands.
assume greater responsibility, often
before the organisational foundation
Managing Security in the AI Era
needed to support that responsibility is
As the threat landscape continues to
fully in place.
grow, CIOs continue to grapple with
known threats, while simultaneously
Setting the AI Agenda
preparing for unknown ones. AI is
Almost every organisation reports
changing the nature of risk, introducing
growing enthusiasm for AI, yet many CIOs
new vulnerabilities that are harder to
believe adoption is already moving too
detect, harder to trace and harder to
fast. Strategic alignment remains fragile,
own. Governance frameworks exist,
long-term roadmaps are still forming, and
but con昀椀dence in their effectiveness is
con昀椀dence in governance frameworks
limited. Visibility of AI use is incomplete
