AI Reality Check: Why IT Leaders Must Get Practical
InformationWeek, December 11,2025
IT leaders must be practical about AI, avoid the 'just add AI' trap, and focus on problem solving.
If you're an IT leader, there's a good chance your company's board, your CEO or even the market itself has told you: "We need an AI strategy." For some, that translates into scrambling to bolt AI onto existing products, sometimes without a clear sense of why or how it will create value.
As someone who has spent years bringing products to market and leading teams through multiple technology waves, let me offer a dose of hard-earned reality: AI is not a strategy, and it's certainly not a silver bullet.