diginomica digital careers report - CIOs shift focus from technology to people as AI transformation demands change management

Change management has to be the major focus of CIOs and digital leaders as organizations and society adopt and navigate the usage of AI. As we have charted this year, organizations are struggling with productivity and the ability to succeed with AI. Studies of the CIO role are finding that due to the demand to make AI work, CIOs are having to increase their focus on change management.

A major research by diginomica revealed the true state of AI in the enterprise when CIOs told us:

AI is not a point solution you can simply purchase and deploy. It requires deep organizational change, clean data infrastructure, realistic expectations, proper change management, and senior leadership that can separate genuine opportunity from vaporware.

The change management challenge is becoming clearer to the digital leadership community, with industry watchers Gartner following our report with similar findings. At its Symposium keynote, Gartner and its ...