2025 was the wake-up call. After the rush of possibilities comes the brutal honesty of reality. 2026 will be the year of truth, deciding who forges sustainable competitive advantages from the AI hype – and who gets stuck in complexity.
For CIOs and tech decision-makers, it’s no longer about “whether” but exclusively about “how.” But most companies will fail at the hard reality of implementation because they ignore the strategic imperatives that are now crystallizing.
The Stress Test for Your AI Strategy 2026
In my new, comprehensive feature article on LinkedIn, I analyze the six inescapable truths that every tech leader must now face:
- Agentic AI: Why prompts are a dead end and the real challenge is twofold.
- The Legacy Brake: The ticking time bomb in your IT that blocks every AI initiative.
- Dev Productivity vs. Risk: Why your fastest developers could suddenly become a security risk.
- The AI Security Imperative: The new attack vectors your traditional firewall doesn’t know.
- The End of Shadow AI: How to move from prohibition to enablement before it’s too late.
- The Sovereignty Balancing Act: The pragmatic “1+1 approach” beyond EU patriotism and US dependency.
The time for superficial experiments is definitely over.
Are you ready for the reckoning? Read the complete analysis with all the facts and strategic implications now exclusively on LinkedIn.