The CIO’s new job description: Chief transformation officer

The piece discusses the execution gap that occurs between proving a concept and running solutions reliably at enterprise scale, emphasizing that pilots are often inexpensive and appealing while production deployments require investment in monitoring, security, data pipelines, integration, and maintenance. It recommends that CIOs demand a clear path to production before greenlighting pilots by asking about data requirements, ownership, security and compliance needs, success metrics, and error-handling.