CIOs Recalibrate IT Agendas To Make Room For Rising AI Spend
CIO, Monday, April 14th, 2025
The rush to invest in AI has reconfigured IT's priority list, exposing some organizations to future risks as legacy tech lingers, architecture updates get backburnered, and work with other emerging technologies peters out.
CEOs, their boards, and the rest of the C-suite continue to push AI as a strategic imperative.
As a result, IT's investments in AI are up, with the percentage of the IT budget earmarked for AI projects nearly tripling from last year, according to the 2025 CIO Playbook from Lenovo and research firm IDC.
But while research also shows that most IT budgets are higher this year than in 2024, CIOs say those increases aren't enough to cover all the tech-enabled initiatives their organizations have identified.