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Digital transformation 2025: What’s in, what’s out

CIO

Based on those and other criteria, here are three digital transformation practices CIOs might want to increase their focus on in 2025, and three worth replacing with other strategies or practices. 2025 will be the year when generative AI needs to generate value, says Louis Landry, CTO at Teradata.

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AI dominates Gartner’s 2025 predictions

CIO

Gartner’s top predictions for 2025 are as follows: Through 2026, 20% of organizations will use AI to flatten their organizational structure, eliminating more than half of current middle management positions. “AI is evolving as human use of AI evolves.

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2025 IT headcount expectations lowest in over a decade

CIO

That may be a key tension unfolding for the 2025 IT hiring market, as evidenced by IT recruitment firm Harvey Nash stepping back from the ramifications of its own recent survey of CIOs, who were decidedly pessimistic about IT hiring in the new year. Their worries did not come true.” Consider gen AI.

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Companies to shift AI goals in 2025 — with setbacks inevitable, Forrester predicts

CIO

Forrester Research this week unleashed a slate of predictions for 2025. 2025 will be about the pursuit of near-term, bottom-line gains while competing for declining consumer loyalty and digital-first business buyers,” Sharyn Leaver, Forrester chief research officer, wrote in a blog post Tuesday.

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CIO hiring on the rise: How to land a top tech exec role in 2025

CIO

Early returns on 2025 hiring for IT leaders suggest a robust market. Were seeing record growth in our search firm almost immediately in 2025, says Kelly Doyle, managing director at Heller Search Associates, an executive recruiting firm in Westborough, Mass., CIOs need to be the business and technology translator.

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AI-native software engineering may be closer than developers think

CIO

Developers unimpressed by the early returns of generative AI for coding take note: Software development is headed toward a new era, when most code will be written by AI agents and reviewed by experienced developers, Gartner predicts. Walsh acknowledges that the current crop of AI coding assistants has gotten mixed reviews so far.

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Unit 42 Predicts the Year of Disruption and Other Top Threats in 2025

Palo Alto Networks

2025 will be the “year of disruption” as organizations experience an increase in cyberattacks that halt business operations and impact end users. Additionally, the cost of cyber disruption will increase next year as businesses experience downtime due to cyberattacks and scramble to implement defenses fit for the AI-enabled attacker era.