Disruptive forces dictate the need for speed when it comes to key digital initiatives. Here’s how IT leaders are overhauling strategies and processes to streamline IT for quicker success.

CEOs prize transformation and reinvention, seeing both as essential to current and future competitiveness. But successful transformation and reinvention are no longer enough, top executives say.

To meet the pace required today, veteran IT executives and advisors offer 12 strategies CIOs can employ to increase their organizational velocity on transformational initiatives:

1. Drop ‘digital’
2. Go all-in with agile
3. Shed the red tape
4. Create reusable tools and repeatable processes
5. Add more automation and intelligence
6. Have an AI governance framework owned by the CIO
7. Foster digitally literacy
8. Create the right incentives
9. Build resiliency
10. Invest in modular architecture
11. Put customers first
12. Remain flawless on the fundamentals

Based on cio.com story by Mary K. Pratt, MARCH 31, 2025