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Why CIOs Need to Adopt a Shift- Up Mentality to Achieve AI Multiplier Gains
Jake Hookom, EVP of Product Management, Perforce, says CIOs must look beyond individual productivity boosts from AI and focus on how teams interact across the DevOps pipeline to unlock enterprise-wide value.
The era of AI is about more than accelerating productivity; it is rewriting the way teams work together and cross-functionally. For CIOs, it represents one of the most seismic changes in their careers. Right now, we are at a point of challenge and opportunity. On the one hand, DevOps tasks that used to take a week can now be completed in just hours and various reports indicate that tools like CoPilot deliver efficiency gains to developers of between 50 % and 70 %. On the other hand, when looking at the bigger picture, organisations are not seeing proportional gains. Those efficiencies are not being translated enterprise-wide and the end-to-end value is not yet there.
This is why we need a mental‘ shift up’ around AI, to think beyond individual use to focus on how different roles interact to drive efficiencies across an entire organisation. In particular, it is vital to focus on how AI can support the intersections between teams: consider these the connective tissue that brings together all the different parts of the DevOps delivery pipeline.
This is a critical aspect to address because while Shift Left and the 10X developer promised speed and volume, this often came at the cost of visibility and governance. Without world-class automation, the value gap grew( and will continue to do so with AI unless unchecked). Additionally, even where DevOps had been adopted, pinch points in the technology and differing methodologies inevitably led to separation, causing teams to act independently, which in turn hindered business goals.
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