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Your Employees Want to Use AI. Who’s Going to Lead That?
CIOs face a critical opportunity to lead their AI strategy. To lead effectively, they must get hands-on by building and experimenting themselves, not delegating crucial learnings.
Here’s where we are today: 86% of companies plan to increase their AI investment over the next two years. Only 6% trust AI to handle core business processes. That gap is the CIO’s opportunity.
Three years ago, we were the team they called when the laptop broke. Now, we’re being asked to lead, not just support, our organizations. AI can be transformational for an organization, and you need to be the person who brings that transformation to your organization, not a vendor who met with your CMO, not an enterprising colleague who makes an influential pitch to your CEO. Gartner recently put it bluntly: by 2027, 75% of data and analytics leaders who haven’t established themselves as strategic collaborators in their organization's AI success will lose their C-Level position. This isn’t hypothetical, this isn’t scaremongering, these are the facts.
I’m lucky to work at a company with a CEO who shares that vision and even pushes us in that direction. Not everyone has that sort of catalyst. But what I want my fellow CIOs to realize is, the longer you wait to lead AI within your organization the harder it will become.
