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What CIOs can do when AI boosts performance but kills motivation

As AI reshapes the workplace, leaders must go beyond efficiency by designing workflows, culture, and training to keep employees engaged and motivated.

By Andrada Fiscutean

Aug 15, 20258 mins

BurnoutCIOGenerative AI

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The third leg of the stool: Technology's role in M&A

M&A isn’t just lawyers and accountants — tech can make or break a deal, if you know how to speak the right language.

By Mike Glover

Aug 15, 2025 5 mins

Enterprise ArchitectureLegalMergers and Acquisitions

How I turned our IT dashboard into a strategic control tower

We ditched static dashboards for a live, AI-driven control tower that predicts issues and guides smarter decisions.

By Vivek Singh

Aug 14, 2025 7 mins

AnalyticsBusiness IntelligenceBusiness Intelligence and Analytics Software

Avoiding costly ERP and cloud systems implementation failures: A perspective from the deal room

Want to dodge ERP disasters? Do your homework, get everyone on the same page and lock in clear terms before you sign.

By Sean Christy

Aug 13, 2025 16 mins

Digital TransformationERP SystemsHybrid Cloud

Creator’s dilemma: Dissonance in copyright law at the heart of GenAI

AI’s changing the creative game, but the rules on who owns what are fuzzy, leaving creators stuck in a messy copyright grey zone.

By Charlyn Ho

Aug 13, 2025 10 mins

Generative AIGovernmentRegulation

2025 CIO Hall of Fame honorees

Meet the CIOs enshrined in the CIO Hall of Fame — from the Class of 1997 to the Class of 2025.

By CIO US Events

Mar 25, 2025 12 mins

CIOCIO 100Technology Industry

New US CIO appointments, August 2025

Congratulations to these 'movers and shakers' recently hired or promoted into a new chief information officer, senior IT, or board role.

By Martha Heller

Aug 13, 2025 9 mins

CIOCareersIT Leadership

The need to add agentic AI to the university syllabus

Frank Feagans, VP of IT and CIO at the University of Texas at Dallas, recently spoke with IDC’s VP, tech evangelist Lee Rennick about channelling the human experience through the AI governance strategy, and the benefits of bringing IT best practices and workforce development methods from private industry to higher ed.

By CIO staff

Aug 13, 2025 6 mins

CIOEducation IndustryGenerative AI

The case for a unified approach to AI and data governance

Bringing AI and data governance together helps you move fast, stay compliant, and actually get the value you expect from AI.

By Hari Subramanian

Aug 12, 2025 8 mins

Data GovernanceData and Information SecurityRegulation

Humanizing AI: Empowering people, not replacing them

Stop fearing AI’s takeover — start fearing being left behind if you don’t use it to supercharge human potential.

By Burley Kawasaki

Aug 12, 2025 7 mins

Artificial IntelligenceDigital TransformationGenerative AI

OpenText replaces CEO, weighs asset sales in strategic shift

The development raises questions over possible changes to product strategy and long-term enterprise support.

By Prasanth Aby Thomas

Aug 12, 2025 4 mins

Technology Industry

AI interoperability challenges persist, even after new protocols

Distrust of agentic results, workflow disruptions, and spiraling costs could haunt CIOs as organizations roll out multiple AI agents.

By Grant Gross

Aug 12, 2025 8 mins

APIsCIODevelopment Tools

Salesforce to acquire Waii to enhance SQL analytics in Agentforce

Waii’s core technology for translating natural language questions into complex, production-ready SQL queries to be integrated into Data Cloud.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Aug 11, 2025 4 mins

CRM SystemsMergers and AcquisitionsSalesforce.com

Beyond pilots: How successful enterprises move from AI experiments to scalable transformation

AI pilots are easy; scaling is the real game. The winners turn hype into hard results with strategy, infrastructure and guts.

By Suvidha Shashikumar

Aug 11, 2025 8 mins

Artificial IntelligenceDigital TransformationIT Strategy

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Spotlight: How AI is Reshaping IT

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IT organizations have already been challenged to find the resources and skills to support major shifts like cloud, automation, and a dramatically altered risk landscape. The emergence of AI as the next big game changer adds an additional level of stress and urgency. It also requires IT leaders to rethink how IT is staffed and organized, how it’s funded, and how the IT team works with the business to capture the value and promise of generative AI, agentic AI, machine learning, and whatever else comes IT’s way.

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