“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.
@prem_k I mean, that’s really the question it’s it:
Can you create a great consultant with a top frontier LLM + clever consultant/skill.md?
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The “API is the UI.”
It is indeed. As agents do more and more interaction with our software for us, agentically, they must use APIs.
The API, for AI, is literally the UI + it’ll be how work ...gets done.
The real issue: Agents will disintermediate tech firms from their customers.
No browser required. Our API is the UI. 🔓 Salesforce Headless 360 just exposed our entire platform — apps, workflows, metadata, Agentforce & Slack — as unified APIs, MCP tools & CLI. Build on any surface. Give Agentforce deep, trusted context. Stop just using Salesforce. Start
Amazing. The majority of new code written at Google was developed by AI.
One of the top tech companies in history.
The implications for society are writ large in this one stat.
Jobs related to ...strategic thinking and trusted insight are the future.
1/ @Google just repositioned its entire data stack as the execution layer for AI agents.
That’s what the new “Agentic Data Cloud” really means, and it has major implications for how enterprise... AI will actually get deployed for Google Cloud customers.🧵
Just took a request-for-quote from the press about EU’s desire to have more autonomy from U.S. tech firms.
My take: Europe’s digital economy doesn’t just use American tech, it’s ...structurally dependent on it. So every sovereignty push runs straight into decades of architectural
With Tim Cook now planning his departure (and as someone who’s used @Apple devices since before the Mac) it’s clear to me that his enterprise legacy is more consequential than many realize.
Cook... didn’t try to “win” the enterprise the old way. He redefined the playing field. He
1/ Big move from @OpenAI today: Scaling Codex into the enterprise via GSIs.
Partners: @Accenture, @Capgemini, @Cognizant.
This is more than distribution, it’s legitimization.
They’re plugging ...directly into the enterprise expertise of the top Fortune 500 providers.
Does IT have a value problem?
Only 50% of CIOs consider themselves a business leader. This is a key to understanding the value perception gap.
Also, good @nyike sighting!
Does IT have a value problem?
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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.
Introducing Claude Design by Anthropic Labs: make prototypes, slides, and one-pagers by talking to Claude.
Powered by Claude Opus 4.7, our most capable vision model. Available in research preview on the Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans, rolling out throughout the day.
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
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