5 IT Roadmap Gotchas In A Disruptive Era
CIO, Monday, August 4th, 2025
Long-term planning - once the bedrock of IT operations - has become increasingly challenging for CIOs of late. The ability to anticipate change, pivot effectively, and avoid common pitfalls is vital to ensuring your IT journey ends in success.
CIOs for the most part have had to ditch multiyear roadmaps, knowing that the rapid pace of change makes it near impossible to plan just three years out - let alone five years in the future, as once was the standard.
Even with many CIOs now going with 18- or 24-month roadmaps, a lot of unknowns remain.
'Roadmaps are just a plan, where we're taking an educated guess of what the future might bring. And humans have shown through history that we're very bad at guessing the future,' says Jenica McHugh, managing director of Accenture's technology strategy and advisory practice.