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From decoding generative AI to maturing financial processes and modernizing infrastructure, IT leaders are aligning strategy with execution to meet today’s urgent mandate for action and innovation. Our most popular research and resources in 2025 so far reveal that CIOs and IT leaders are leaning into this year’s disruption and building a future-ready IT department across key domains. At this critical mid-year point, look beyond the trends to discover a peer-validated view of what matters most in IT right now.

We’ve consolidated our most popular new research and products from the first half of 2025 to reveal what’s top of mind for CIOs and IT leaders.

• IT leaders have moved into action, decoding what generative AI means for their organizations and seeking opportunities while also putting guardrails in place.
• CIOs sought to get their priorities in order and mature their key processes, including financial management.
• IT is making improvements to core domains – data strategy, cybersecurity, infrastructure and operations, and applications – as it prepares to deliver on its innovation mandate.
• IT looked first to its existing suite of products and vendors such as Microsoft, and then looked toward new vendors for the missing pieces, including those for its generative AI use cases.
• The public sector was proactive in seeking IT solutions to their unique concerns and challenges.