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Are CIOs an influencer for innovation?
In an era where tech fuels business innovation, chief information officers (CIOs) are uniquely positioned to help guide their organizations toward transformation. How? Focus on human-centric technology to drive modernization and transformation. This shift can help you move beyond systems maintenance to driving innovation and increasing corporate value. Artificial intelligence (AI) can help you also increase productivity and cost savings by elevating platform modernization from a tactical initiative to a strategic advantage. Prioritizing ongoing improvement over large-scale transformations, you can turn innovative tech into a competitive edge.
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How CIOs innovate with confidence
Technological innovation keeps accelerating — and not every CIO feels equipped to keep up. Our latest Pulse Survey reveals what separates confident tech leaders from the rest. The key? Prioritizing AI-native architectures and future-proofing technology, not just upskilling your workforce on the latest tools.
Learn how the most confident CIOs are building capabilities across people and platforms to deliver tangible results from digital and AI investments — faster.
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40% of CIOs rank the pace of tech innovation as a top-3 barrier to delivering on their tech strategy
Source: PwC Pulse Survey, May 2025
Where to focus in 2025
Cloud and digital
Prioritize cloud platform modernization
Unlocking the value of cloud extends beyond data migration. Emphasize full-stack platform modernization and a cloud-first environment throughout your entire tech ecosystem to help influence more powerful business outcomes. Legacy systems and fragmented processes can limit the potential of enterprise resource planning (ERP) — a modernized approach can help enable agility, integration and AI-driven decision-making to fully power cloud transformation.
CIOs can also prioritize platforms that unify data, applications and infrastructure while enabling AI-powered architectures — particularly AI — as a driver of operational efficiency. Platform modernization requires expertise to map and engineer the journey — leveraging a managed services solution can help accelerate these investments while managing cloud capabilities to improve costs and outcomes.
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Boost business with value-based cloud ERP
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38% of CIOs and CTOs say their company’s technology is completely prepared to support a new business model
Source: PwC Pulse Survey, June 2024
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