“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.
Apple (AAPL) shares were mixed for a good part of Friday's session.
@dhinchcliffe and Jed Ellerbroek talk to the company’s earnings report and share key takeaways.
For more: ...http://schwabnetwork.com/?CID=SM:Twitter:Organic:2026-01-30
New data from @Deloitte shows only about 25% of enterprises have moved 40%+ of their AI experiments into production so far.
In other words:
Most AI still dies in pilots.
But 54% expect to get there... in 3–6 mos.
Upshot: The real bottleneck isn’t models.
It’s operationalization.
1/ I was just on the @SchwabNetwork today discussing @Apple’s strong quarter, and the numbers genuinely were excellent:
Record revenue.
~48% gross margins.
iPhone rebounded hard.
Services still ...printing cash.
Yet the stock is mixed.
Here’s why 👇
$MSFT just shed ~10%+ + $357B+ in market value after earnings news this week:
Their AI capex jumped to ~$37.5B (+66%) while Azure growth slowed to ~38–39%, sharply disappointing investors hungry ...for real enterprise growth in AI.
My take: Copilot-driven agent forays aren’t
The light speed at which the saga of Clawdbot > Moltbot > OpenClaw has unfolded is a perfect example of the insane pace of AI app dev right now.
The large community + ecosystem that has sprung... up around overnight is fascinating as well.
One to watch and learn from...
The lobster has molted into its final form 🦞
Clawd → Moltbot → OpenClaw
100k+ GitHub stars. 2M visitors in a week.
And finally, a name that'll stick.
Your assistant. Your machine. Your rules.
http://openclaw.ai/blog/introducing-openclaw
#CIOChat Good chat today. Join us at 2pm ET next Thursday. Topic: AI Workplace Realignment
This is month 10 of our movie tie-ins. Hope you’ve enjoyed them.
Please suggest topics and invite your... IT colleagues. Every Thursday at 2pm ET.
#CIOChat Q4: Endgame: Budgets that are dynamic, transparent, and tightly tied to value. As IT spend becomes more variable and AI-driven, what does your next-generation budgeting operating model look ...like, and what capabilities are still missing?
#CIOChat Q3: Many CIOs say the biggest shift isn’t the tools, it’s the CFO relationship. Finance teams are moving faster, demanding real-time visibility + co-owning prioritization. How has your ...partnership with the CFO evolved, and where are tensions or breakthroughs showing up?
#CIOChat Q2: We’re seeing new budgeting techniques emerge: Rolling forecasts, zero-based tech reviews, outcome-based funding, product-style budget backlogs, and scenario modeling for AI and GPU ...demand.
Which new budget innovations are you actually considering/using?
#CIOChat Q1: Traditional annual IT budgeting is breaking under cloud elasticity, AI inference spend, and nonstop reprioritization. What specific pressures finally forced you to rethink the budget ...model + which parts are no longer viable?
I’m joining #CIOchat today from rainy Portugal.
Note: There will be no Bluesky simulcasting today due to limited connection.
#CIOChat: Welcome to today’s chat. Topic: New Budget Innovations
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