Spotlight: IT Modernization

Thirty-plus years into the era of IT-enabled business, enterprises’ legacy challenge is addressing once-modern systems that now bottleneck organizational aspirations. Learn how IT leaders are successfully managing modernization initiatives in this month’s Spotlight series, a curated collection from the editors of CIO, Computerworld, CSO, InfoWorld, and Network World.

CIO 100 Award winners showcase the business value of IT

From improving customer care to future-proofing the business, 2025’s award-winning projects for IT innovation and leadership demonstrate IT’s transformational proposition.

Aug 12, 2025 21 mins

CIO 100 Digital Transformation Innovation Awards

AI interoperability challenges persist, even after new protocols

Distrust of agentic results, workflow disruptions, and spiraling costs could haunt CIOs as organizations roll out multiple AI agents.

Aug 12, 2025 8 mins

APIs CIO Development Tools

Salesforce to acquire Waii to enhance SQL analytics in Agentforce

Waii’s core technology for translating natural language questions into complex, production-ready SQL queries to be integrated into Data Cloud.

Aug 11, 2025 4 mins

CRM Systems Mergers and Acquisitions Salesforce

Beyond pilots: How successful enterprises move from AI experiments to scalable transformation

AI pilots are easy; scaling is the real game. The winners turn hype into hard results with strategy, infrastructure and guts.

Aug 11, 2025 8 mins

Artificial Intelligence Digital Transformation IT Strategy

Ransomware, resilience, and the endpoint blind spot: What CIOs must fix now

As ransomware locks users out of their devices, recovery speed becomes the true measure of digital resilience.

Feb 19, 2026 4 mins

Security

Is AI the end of IT as we know it?

AI is already spurring CIOs to rethink how they run IT departments, invest in technology platforms, and digitally transform businesses. But a clear-eyed view of IT’s future remains elusive.

Aug 11, 2025 9 mins

Artificial Intelligence Digital Transformation IT Strategy

4 thoughts on who should manage AI agents

As agents become more autonomous, it raises questions about which groups within the enterprise should manage them, and whether they should be treated as software or humans.

Aug 11, 2025 7 mins

Human Resources IT Governance IT Skills and Training

Skills and the AI-ready organization: four things to consider

Employing a staff with the right blend of skills and experience is a challenge for CIOs building AI-ready organizations. We explore some of the issues they need to resolve.

Aug 11, 2025 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence IT Leadership

Lost in plain sight: The quiet collapse of your transformation

Why high-performing teams still miss the mark...and how leaders can close the final mile.

Aug 8, 2025 9 mins

Business IT Alignment Digital Transformation IT Leadership

Executives love their AI rollouts, but employees aren’t buying it

Less than half of workers see their organizations’ approach to gen AI as strategic and successful. CIOs must embrace the change management challenge to ensure clear direction and organization-wide AI literacy.

Aug 8, 2025 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Change Management