Should CIOs Rethink The IT Roadmap?
CIO, December 11,2025
To adequately serve today's business landscape, the technology roadmap must be a more malleable and responsive document that can accommodate the disruptive changes companies are likely to experience. Is yours?
Roadmap development in the CIO world used to mean thinking out five to 10 years about technology trends and then planning and preparing for them.
But with unanticipated and immediately disruptive technologies becoming a fact of IT today, including the need to defend against them in a heartbeat, developing technology roadmaps becomes much more than just planning upgrades to obsolete technology and systems. The complexity and foresight involved greatly reduce the CIO's horizon of expectations, making establishing even a three-year IT roadmap a challenge.