“As AI becomes integral to business strategy, CIOs are being forced to reconsider how and where it’s optimal to deploy compute resources. The need for low latency, cost efficiency, and compliance in AI applications is driving a rapid shift toward hybrid and multi-cloud strategies. For IT leaders, this means 2025 will be a pivotal year for a comprehensive realignment of their infrastructure with the realities of the AI era.”
Enterprise IT in 2025 is entering a period of profound reinvention as CIOs push AI beyond isolated functions, wrestle with the immature foundations of agentic AI, and escalate efforts to counter suddenly looming post-quantum threats. Futurum’s Q2 2025 CIO Insights survey reveals 89% of IT leaders driving AI for strategic transformation, 80% elevating quantum-resilient security to board-level priority, and 71% rethinking optimal cloud environments under intensifying AI workload pressures.
Three primary reasons are driving this change.
Dion Hinchcliffe is a distinguished thought leader, IT expert, and enterprise architect, celebrated for his strategic advisory with Fortune 500 and Global 2000 companies. With over 25 years of experience, Dion works with the leadership teams of top enterprises, as well as leading tech companies, in bridging the gap between business and technology, focusing on enterprise AI, IT management, cloud computing, and digital business. He is a sought-after keynote speaker, industry analyst, and author, known for his insightful and in-depth contributions to digital strategy, IT topics, and digital transformation. Dion’s influence is particularly notable in the CIO community, where he engages actively with CIO roundtables and has been ranked numerous times as one of the top global influencers of Chief Information Officers. He also serves as an executive fellow at the SDA Bocconi Center for Digital Strategies.
Supposedly, that Claude Design was being released today crushed Figma stock this week.
Very likely. And we’ll see this with more and more product categories.
AI will, in fact, eat software.
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My prediction: The enterprise applications arena is ripe for disruption with AI + agents.
AI-generated apps of some kind are *the* future of business software.
So who will hit upon the right ...formula?
Probably more than one company. They will form a major new industry.
Introducing Superblocks 2.0: AI-generated enterprise apps – finally under IT control.
Vibe-coded apps just became the #1 attack vector in the enterprise.
Business teams are building on production data, while IT has zero visibility.
No reviews. No audits. No permissions. No
Salesforce launches Headless 360 to support agent-first enterprise workflows
I shared my thoughts with @CIOonline this week about the major new AI platform news from $SFDC. See my X thread for ...full thoughts!
Salesforce launches Headless 360 to support agent-first enterprise workflows
The new platform packages Salesforce’s AI and developer tools into a headless, API‑driven layer designed for softw...
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When it comes to AI spend management, CIOs are not alone
My take: Getting control of token spend and all the other associated AI costs has become a first-order issue. FinOps is helping but not yet... enough.
When it comes to AI spend management, CIOs are not alone
FinOps teams are tackling the difficult nature of AI spend to help tech chiefs get costs under control, analysts ...
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A4) All of the above, and (assuming!) a portion of every dollar saved needs to go into training budgets. Re-/up-skilling, yes, but also leadership, mentorship, and everything else that lies beyond ...the current grasp of #AI. Reach back to Deming's 14 points... #ciochat
@CPetersen_CS It’s interesting that AI development tends to drive velocity increases, but provider-specific tools seem to live in an entirely parallel dimension. Slow to change and hard to use.
...Agree with careful, thought-out use, but speed is also a key factor.
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#CIOChat Good chat today. Join us at 2pm ET next Thursday. Topic: Consultants, SIs: Disrupted or Not?
Hope you enjoy our movie tie-ins to intro next week’s topic.
Please suggest topics and invite... your IT colleagues. Every Thursday at 2pm ET.
A3) For everyone, #AI use has to be careful, thought out, and used properly to avoid the negative side-effects. In #IT infrastructure spaces, I may be seeing both less AI and more provider-centric ...tool use. As usual, vendor lock-in could become a problem. #ciochat
#CIOChat Q4: Looking ahead, how should CIOs rebuild the talent pipeline in an AI-first world: Formal apprenticeships, simulation labs, AI-assisted learning, or something entirely new?
What does the ...next generation of enterprise technologists look like?
A2.2) If you're interviewing a junior person and you can only keep a straight face when they ask about "opportunities for growth" because you equally want to laugh and cry ... well, maybe move on ...yourself. #ciochat
A2.1) Yes, but it's worse than that in many shops. Flattening and leaning out technical orgs mean fewer mid and senior positions and in some cases fewer advancement opportunities (do -> design ...-> strategy -> lead) in the first place. #ciochat
@CPetersen_CS I have hope that IT will be the new fallback for CS folks, who will again learn how to apply tech to business like we did.
There still needs to be a pure CS track, but IT is likely the... “new product” that gives them a chance to build the firms of the future.
So I hope.
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