CIOs' Top Resolution Should Be To Create A Visions-Rich 2026
CIO, Tuesday, December 30th, 2025
The tech 'future' for too many workers today involves reacting to whatever happened in the past 12 hours. It's time for CIOs to take the reins and rediscover IT's aspiration to be great.
Confusion abounds in today's technology world. In this moment of AI-amplified centrifugal chaos, organizations need the unifying - and synthesizing - focus of understandable and achievable technology visions.
Sixty-five years ago, technology vision (singular) was frequently winnowed down to 'What did you buy?' IT strategists of days-long-gone were little more than glorified purchasing agents. I fear too many organizations have regressed, replacing energy-expanding and consensus-creating cartographies of what comes next - and rock-ribbed commitments to outcomes we can accomplish together - with soulless lists of AI investments.