What CIOs can do: The security practices in DevSecOps lagged CI/CD automations, and businesses were fast implementing citizen data science, leaving many data governance practices as to-dos. Falling behind AI governance practices may yield unacceptable risks, especially as AI agents are deployed in enterprise and customer-facing applications.
7. Cultural debt that accelerates business disruption
The hardest part of digital transformation is gaining early adopters, driving change management, and addressing pushback from detractors. Gen AI adds more cultural debt as subject matter experts age out of the workforce, leaving little behind for employees with AI capabilities to take on new responsibilities.
Joe Byrne, field CTO of LaunchDarkly, says, “Cultural debt can have several negative impacts, but specific to AI, a lack of proper engineering practices, resistance to innovation, tribal knowledge gaps, and failure to adopt modern practices all create significant roadblocks to successfully leveraging AI.”
