Executive alignment is a transformation accelerator. Can CIOs unlock its value?
Executive Take
A confident CIO does not mean a convinced CEO. If your board and tech chief measure AI success differently, your AI budget is at risk regardless of the technology's actual performance.
Executive Summary
Citing IBM and Protiviti research, this piece finds only 25% of AI initiatives deliver expected ROI and 16% scale enterprise-wide. Protiviti data shows CIOs/CTOs have 61% net confidence AI drives revenue and cost savings, versus just 30% among CEOs and boards, a gap the author says stalls transformation.
Why It Matters
Technology and leadership executives need this because it shows AI stalls not from bad tools but from executives disagreeing on what success means. CHROs should note workforce readiness is named as part of the fix.
Bizquad Perspective
Most leaders treat the CIO's high confidence as good news, but the real warning sign is that confidence measuring the wrong things looks identical to genuine progress.