CIOs Face Mounting Pressure to Deliver AI ROI as the Business-IT Divide Reaches a New High
ManpowerGroup subsidiary Experis released the CIO 2026 Outlook, a survey of 1,930 technology leaders across 12 countries. The report highlights that business-IT alignment has overtaken cybersecurity as the top CIO priority, with 48% of leaders citing it as most important.
Key figures
- Ai positive roi
- 54%
- Cloud roi drivers
- 41%
- Ai ml skill demand
- 37%
- Cloud skill demand
- 31%
- Countries surveyed
- 12
- Survey respondents
- 1930
- Overinvesting in ai
- 31%
- Ai roi in production
- 34%
- Ai implementation rate
- 60%
- Cio role misunderstood
- 61%
- Cybersecurity training
- 72%
- Pace of change barrier
- 44%
- Risk strategy alignment
- 72%
- Cybersecurity skill demand
- 46%
- Cybersecurity priority 2025
- 34%
- Digital sovereignty priority
- 81%
- Offshore dependency increase
- 67%
- Business it alignment priority
- 48%
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