How CIOs Can Beat Enterprise Bloat And Unlock Intelligence
CIO, Wednesday, June 25th, 2025
AI budgets are booming, but impact lags. CIOs must shift from grand overhauls to embedding intelligence into real workflows for speed, savings and security.
Enterprise AI budgets keep climbing, yet the promised productivity boost remains elusive. In its latest quarter, Snowflake reported $1.04 billion in revenue, up 26 percent year over year, while NVIDIA's data‑center business surged 69 percent year over year to $44.1 billion. Those numbers suggest wholesale adoption. In board meetings, however, it is still hard to name even one workflow that now runs faster, costs less or secures data better because of AI.