IT Leadership

Editor’s picks: Advancing IT Leadership

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In this issue: AI is requiring a reset for CIOs and other IT leaders in how they lead both their technical and business strategies and execution approaches. Here, we explore some of the implications of artificial intelligence on IT leadership.

By CIO staff

May 1, 20251 min

Artificial IntelligenceIT LeadershipIT Strategy

United Airlines' AI strategy: The airline that makes decisions fastest wins

By Martha Heller

Apr 30, 20256 mins

CIOGenerative AITransportation and Logistics Industry

How IT leaders use agentic AI for business workflows

By Bill Doerrfeld

Apr 30, 202510 mins

Business IT AlignmentC-SuiteCIO

What makes a true AI agent? CIOs struggle with the definition as hype blurs lines

By Grant Gross

Apr 29, 20256 mins

Generative AIIT StrategyTechnology Industry

The digital mechanics that drive BMW’s latest rollout

The German car manufacturer shows how digitalization shapes next-gen production with its iFactory and digital twins, combined with the industrial metaverse.

By Jürgen Hill

May 2, 20257 mins

Automotive IndustryDigital TransformationInnovation

IT leaders see big business potential in small AI models

By Paula Rooney

May 1, 20256 mins

Generative AIIT Strategy

The secret weapon for transformation? Treating it like a merger

By Michael Bertha

Apr 30, 20255 mins

Digital TransformationIT StrategyMergers and Acquisitions

Managing the many we’s of IT

By Thornton May

Apr 29, 20255 mins

Business IT AlignmentIT LeadershipStaff Management

Husqvarna brings gen AI to the factory floor

By Thor Olavsrud

Apr 28, 20256 mins

CIOGenerative AIManufacturing Industry

9 IT skills where expertise pays the most

By Sarah White

Apr 25, 20256 mins

CareersIT SkillsTechnology Industry

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By Matt Egan

Apr 23, 20251 min

IT StrategyPredictive AnalyticsROI and Metrics

Essential steps to maximize ERP project success

By Ted Rogers

Apr 23, 20255 mins

C-SuiteCIOERP Systems

The leadership imperative in a technology-enabled society — Balancing IQ, EQ and AQ

By Lisa Pratico

Apr 22, 202513 mins

CareersIT LeadershipStaff Management

Articles

Lumen: Building the trusted network for AI

Lumen is on a mission to provide organizations of all kinds with the extensive, robust, and flexible infrastructure they need to excel in a new era shaped by demanding AI workloads, edge computing, and the need for more efficient applications and seamless human collaboration.

By Ken Phillips

Apr 22, 2025 5 mins

Artificial IntelligenceDigital TransformationNetworking

CIOs increasingly dump in-house POCs for commercial AI

High failure rates and low returns of homegrown AI pilots are accelerating a shift to commercial, off-the-shelf solutions as software vendors roll more AI functionality into their products.

By Grant Gross

Apr 22, 2025 6 mins

Artificial IntelligenceIT StrategyTechnology Industry

Political engineering 101: The biz-savvy IT leader’s survival guide

Sometimes, even the soundest engineering isn’t sound-enough engineering. So when things go sideways, politics can be a shrewd tool or your undoing.

By Bob Lewis

Apr 22, 2025 5 mins

Business IT AlignmentCareersIT Leadership

CIOs could improve sustainability with data center purchasing decisions — but don’t

Data center customers and operators worry about their environmental impact, but few let the problem influence procurement practices. CIOs should step up before signing deals.

By Grant Gross

Apr 22, 2025 5 mins

BudgetingGreen ITIT Strategy

Future-proofing your mainframe: three takeaways from the frontlines of innovation

The future of enterprise IT will be powered by AI, automation, and hybrid cloud. But it should also include the best of the mainframe, including its valuable data.

By Michael Curry

Apr 21, 2025 4 mins

Digital Transformation

Global tariffs shake up CIOs’ IT agendas

Anticipating impacts to infrastructure pricing and supply chains, CIOs are decreasing capital expenditures, scaling back projects, and mapping out strategies for coping with tighter budgets.

By Esther Shein

Apr 21, 2025 9 mins

BudgetingGovernmentTechnology Industry

How to plan for a new business technology operating model

As organizations reinvent for the AI era, business leaders say they’re moving toward a new enterprise technology operating model. Here’s how to get started.

By Jenica McHugh and Frédéric Brunier

Apr 21, 2025 7 mins

CIODigital TransformationGenerative AI

The project of reform and revival that saved JAL

Behind Japan Airlines’ dramatic turnaround from bankruptcy in 2010 was the Sakura Project, a large-scale IT effort that put the company's future on the line. But its success back then continues to be a reliable check against industry turbulence, and a model for other organizations to follow.

By Takashi Matsuzaki

Apr 18, 2025 8 mins

Digital TransformationIT StrategyTransportation and Logistics Industry

CIOs must mind their own data confidence gap

CIOs and other C-level execs believe their orgs’ data is primed for AI, but VPs closer to the IT pipelines see bad data being used to make key business decisions — a blind spot CIOs must rectify.

By Grant Gross

Apr 17, 2025 7 mins

Artificial IntelligenceData GovernanceIT Strategy