Future-Proof Your IT: The CIO’s Guide to Generative AI Vendor Selection

12 Essential Questions for Selecting the Right AI Provider

Picking the Wrong AI Provider Could Land You In Front of This Judge — Photo by Author David E. Sweenor

Introduction

Did you know that by 2028, approximately 70 percent of businesses will integrate generative AI into their core operations?[1] So, given the prognostication, how prepared is your organization to adapt over the next four years?

Businesses are keenly aware that to compete effectively, they need to modernize their IT infrastructure and digitally transform their business. Trusted data, automation, and AI–both traditional and generative–are core elements of a winning strategy. Technology’s potential to automate and redefine business processes is surely tantalizing, and as a result, CIOs, CTOs, CISOs, CDOs, and other technology leaders are under increased pressure to accelerate transformation initiatives.

These days, CIOs have a lot on their plate. They need to balance rising technology costs, talent wars, increasing costs of capital, technical debt, neverending security threats, and mountains of technical debt. Many CIOs must split their time between driving transformation initiatives and maintaining legacy systems. Unfortunately, for many businesses, the lion’s share of the budget is used to keep the business running rather than on…