Things CIOs and CTOs need to do differently in 2025

Things CIOs and CTOs need to do differently in 2025 
Information Week; by Lisa Morgan; 12/18/24 
As CIOs and CTOs head into a new year, they always have priorities. Greater agility is a key theme in 2025. ... “Keep ahead or at least on top of the cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and data analytics skills that are needed. Acquire talent and develop that talent so your company remains competitive,” says [Loren Margolis, faculty, Stony Brook University]. “Find ways to use [AI and analytics] to become even more agile so you remain competitive. Also embrace them as opportunities to train and develop your workforce. Make sure your organization is a place where great tech talent can come to develop and use their skills.” The following are some other priorities for 2025:

1. Increase value delivery ...
2. Ensure AI investment ROI ...
3. Overcome budget limitations ...
4. Strengthen cybersecurity ...
5. Deal with the lingering talent shortage ...
6. Ignite innovation ...
7. Understand customers better and remain curious ...
8. Unearth novel insights about data ...
9. Cloud adoption ...
10. Enable extreme agility to weather shifting geopolitical threats ...