CIOs' Top 10 Takeaways From The Year AI Got Practical
CIO, December 11,2025
IT leaders' lessons-learned from 2025 underscore what AI implementations have taught them about the technology's potential, as well as its impact on leadership, the company, and society itself.
Artificial intelligence dominated the CIO agenda in 2025, so it's no surprise that the technology, its application, and how to get the best business value out of it gave IT leaders much to think about this year.
What might be surprising, however, is that CIOs, when asked to look back on 2025, don't cite many technical lessons-learned. Rather, they talk about how AI is teaching them about the technology's potential and its impact on leadership, the organization, staff, and society itself.
Here, eight representative CIOs share their biggest takeaways from the past year.