How to Pick Your Pace and Win the AI Outcomes Race

Dec 17, 2024

Alicia Mullery, a Gartner VP, specializes in helping CIOs with practical lessons from corporate successes and failures. Joining her is Daryl Plummer, a distinguished analyst focused on cloud computing and digital disruption. They dive into the nuances of the AI outcomes race, distinguishing between an AI steady pace and an AI accelerated pace. The discussion highlights essential outcome types for success, the vital role of CIOs in AI integration, and the importance of change management during adoption. They provide actionable strategies for navigating the challenges and facilitators in the journey to harness AI effectively.

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Intro

00:00 • 2min

Navigating the AI Outcomes Race: Understanding Key Outcome Types for Success

01:34 • 2min

Pacing AI Adoption for Success

03:21 • 15min

Leadership in AI Integration: Strategic Priorities for CIOs

18:00 • 2min

Navigating Change Management in AI Adoption

20:20 • 2min

“Pacing Yourself in the AI Races,” the 2024 IT Symposium/Xpo keynote, provided an inspiring vision for CIOs on delivering AI outcomes safely and at scale. In this episode of CIO Mind podcast, keynote presenters Alicia Mullery, Gartner VP Research, and Daryl Plummer, Gartner Distinguished VP Analyst, Chief of Research and Gartner Fellow, join host ck Andrade, Gartner Sr. Director Analyst, to deep dive into the keynote’s concepts and identify how to move from inspiration to action. Join them to explore the differences between the AI steady and AI accelerated paces and the bumps in the road and the facilitators as CIOs take first steps in the CIO AI outcomes race. To learn more about the keynote, see Pacing Yourself in the AI Races: 2024 IT Symposium/Xpo Keynote Insights.

Episode Highlights

The CIO AI outcomes race versus the tech vendor race. (1:20)
Business, technology and behavioral outcomes for AI. (2:20)
Choosing your pace: AI steady or AI accelerated? (04:05)
Challenges to achieving AI outcomes. (8:06)
Facilitators to achieving AI outcomes. (17:42)
Next steps for CIOs in the AI outcomes race. (21:11)

Daryl Plummer is a Gartner Fellow, VP, and Distinguished Analyst. His research focuses on the strategic issues of cloud computing, digital disruption, and the unfolding of the future through predictions, trends and evolving digital business cycles. Daryl is a Chief of Research in the technology and service providers organization, where he helps oversee research across the four roles of general manager, product managers,product marketers, and tech CEOs.

Alicia Mullery is a Gartner Vice President, Research, supporting CIOs and other senior executives. Alicia’s research collaboration works to distill practical lessons from company accomplishments and missteps. She works to identify, build and then present best practice case studies that inspire executive action and decision making. Her recent areas of focus include the shift from projects to products, building fusion teams and safely democratizing digital delivery, transforming IT talent, building effective CIO/CxO partnerships, and increasing the number of women in IT leadership.