Beyond The Pilot: How CIOs Can Scale AI Successfully
CIODIVE, Monday, January 5th, 2026
CIOs can drive AI ROI with strong design, governance, interoperability and modern IT infrastructure.
As CIOs face increasing pressure to mount successful AI projects, they're contending with a sobering reality: only between 5% to 20% of AI pilots result in high-impact, enterprise-wide deployments with real, measurable value.
For CIOs expected to expand AI experiments to their entire organization, their grim ROI prospects can seem like an insurmountable obstacle. In fact, at the end of 2025, businesses will have abandoned 30% of generative AI projects before they make it out of the proof-of-concept stage.