CIOs Set Talent Strategies For A Future-Ready It Workforce
CIO, September 16,2025
Emerging technologies - AI in particular - are rapidly altering how work gets done. Forward-looking IT leaders are rethinking skills and roles to ensure their teams thrive through changes ahead.
Years ago, when he transitioned an IT department from an on-premises data center to the cloud, CIO Jaime Smith anticipated the disruption his workers would face.
He saw it as an inflexion point, where workers would have to make a leap from managing traditional tech infrastructure to a code-first environment. He put some 70 engineers through an internal boot camp to help them make the shift. But only a third succeeded in 'crossing the chasm,' Smith says. About a third left right away, and the other third tried but ultimately didn't succeed.