With the advent of agentic AI, CIOs must be poised to adjust strategic IT priorities, mitigate new security risks, and reskill staff for a new era.
And while IT departments are always transforming to help drive how the greater organization pursues opportunities or addresses risks, certain technological moments represent pivotal points in which the IT organizational structure itself must be reevaluated.
When self-provisioning cloud infrastructure capabilities and CI/CD deployment automation became mainstream, some CIOs questioned whether a separation of duties between development and operations functions still made sense, ushering in the DevOps era.
