5 Questions Defining The CIO Agenda Today
CIO, Tuesday, May 20th, 2025
AI, cybersecurity, IT modernization, skills gaps, and budget concerns remain top of mind for IT leaders, but how they're thinking about each is changing as the IT landscape shifts in the AI era.
Perennial issues dominate today's CIO agenda: how to drive innovation while ensuring secure and modern IT operations, a workforce tuned for the future, and a balance sheet prepared to contain costs as they fluctuate.
But while CIO.com's latest State of the CIO survey identifies AI initiatives, security work, modernization efforts, and talent needs as top drivers for IT leaders' agendas again this year, subtle shifts in how best to tackle that work can be teased out by the key questions IT leaders face in each of these areas right now.