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Beyond the Agentic AI Hype: Five Lessons from the European CIO Xchange 2025

Publisher IDC
Published Nov 07, 2025
Length 7 Pages
SKU # IDC20539974

Description

European CIOs are moving beyond AI hype, focusing on disciplined strategies to scale AI effectively. Key lessons include prioritizing high-impact projects, ensuring business-led strategy, addressing foundational data and legacy issues, embedding governance, and designing flexible architectures for cost and sovereignty. Success hinges on aligning AI initiatives with strategic business goals, overcoming organizational constraints, and institutionalizing continuous reevaluation to adapt to rapid market changes."AI success is not about chasing hype but about ruthless prioritization, business-led strategy, and fixing foundations before scaling." — Jennifer Thomson, AVP European Research, IDC

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7 Pages

eXECUTIVE SNAPSHOT

Situation Overview

The AI Reality Check

Strategic Responses and Emerging Best Practices: Five Lessons Learnt

1. The Power of Selection, Prioritization as a Survival Tactic

2. Business Strategy Drives AI, Not the Other Way Around

3. AI Cannot Fix a Broken House (But It Can Help Remodel)

4. AI Agents in the Enterprise: Strategy Before Scale

5. Architecture as a Control Point

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