The Year in Review - 2025 in Digital Leaders

In a year when technology and its impact on the enterprise have become mainstream news, digital leaders did, of course, discuss this technology, but what really dominated their thoughts was how to manage what could be the largest change management programme ever. The technology, and there are no Christmas bonuses for guessing this, is AI. Throughout 2025, our community of CIOs and CTOs has scratched their heads over how AI will impact the organisation and beyond.

​This is not a technology implementation, it's a fundamental rethinking of how work gets done, requiring open dialogue about fears, realistic timelines, and sustained commitment to behavior change.

Why? In a year that began with lots of bold statements about how agentic AI would replace swathes of roles, we worked closely with our community to discover what the real impact and challenges of AI were in the enterprise. Over the course of the ...