What are executives’ AI-related priorities over the next year?

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Safeguarding their business’ future

AI outlook, concerns — and now priorities. Executives offered insight into what they are focusing on in the near term. With rapid developments in both the technology and its application, respondents focused on the 12-month window following their taking the survey.

Executives forecast AI will impact all the prompted core strategic priorities — innovation, security, speed to market, and operational efficiency — with relatively similar magnitude, indicating the continued pervasiveness of the technology across the business world.

Looking ahead to the next 12 months, respondents selected improving security and threat detection as a top priority for AI, followed closely by optimizing organizational efficiencies.

Improving security and threat detection is the top-prompted AI priority in APAC and the Americas. Optimizing organizational efficiency is the top-prompted AI priority in EMEA.

CISOs’ priorities largely involve improving security and threat detection, whereas CIOs are most focused on optimizing organizational efficiencies. Meanwhile, CTOs show a preference for enhancing innovation and product development.

When we asked executives to identify their top priority for AI in the next 12 months among prompted alternatives, improving security and threat detection was the most common, selected by 30%, followed by optimizing organizational efficiencies (26%) and enhancing innovation and product development (21%).

Resource-wise, executives appear to feel supported in these efforts: 59% of respondents are either satisfied or very satisfied with their organization’s current level of investment in their top priority.