{"id":983718,"date":"2026-01-07T08:18:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T02:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=983718"},"modified":"2026-01-07T08:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T02:55:08","slug":"a-cios-hardest-problem-today-is-readiness-for-ai-kyndryls-kim-basile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/07\/a-cios-hardest-problem-today-is-readiness-for-ai-kyndryls-kim-basile\/","title":{"rendered":"A CIO\u2019s hardest problem today is readiness for AI: Kyndryl&#8217;s Kim Basile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Enterprise AI is at a crossroads. <\/p>\n<p>The technology works. Investment is flowing. Pilots are everywhere. And yet, across industries, CIOs are confronting a quiet but persistent reality: artificial intelligence moves fast\u2014but transformation only endures when people move with it. <\/p>\n<p>In an era where AI is advancing faster than organizations can absorb it, the real challenge for CIOs is no longer access to technology\u2014it is alignment. Alignment between systems and skills. Between experiment and impact. Between speed and trust. And most critically, between innovation and people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enterprise AI is at a crossroads. The technology works. Investment is flowing. Pilots are everywhere. And yet, across industries, CIOs are confronting a quiet but persistent reality: artificial intelligence moves fast\u2014but transformation only endures when people move with it. In an era where AI is advancing faster than organizations can absorb it, the real challenge for CIOs is no longer access to technology\u2014it is alignment. Alignment between systems and skills. Between experiment and impact. Between speed and trust. And most critically, between innovation and people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-983718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=983718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}