Dion Hinchcliffe
@dhinchcliffe.bsky.social
Thinker, strategist, enterprise architect, keynote speaker, analyst, book author, futurist on #IT, #CIO, #cloud, #AI. Works at The Futurum Group and SDA Bocconi.
1/ Agentic sprawl is emerging as one of the fastest-growing risks in enterprise AI.
You can’t manage what you don’t know about or can’t see. And my research shows agents are being adopted widely.
If CIOs can’t see what agents exist, they can’t govern, secure, or scale them.
You can’t manage what you don’t know about or can’t see. And my research shows agents are being adopted widely.
If CIOs can’t see what agents exist, they can’t govern, secure, or scale them.
January 23, 2026 at 4:21 PM
1/ Agentic sprawl is emerging as one of the fastest-growing risks in enterprise AI.
You can’t manage what you don’t know about or can’t see. And my research shows agents are being adopted widely.
If CIOs can’t see what agents exist, they can’t govern, secure, or scale them.
You can’t manage what you don’t know about or can’t see. And my research shows agents are being adopted widely.
If CIOs can’t see what agents exist, they can’t govern, secure, or scale them.
A new McKinsey chart says something important:
AI doesn’t replace jobs.
It reshapes skills — unevenly.
Human skills face the lowest automation risk.
Structured + digital skills rise fastest.
Even coding trends upward.
Not tech vs people.
Judgment beats repetitive work.
AI doesn’t replace jobs.
It reshapes skills — unevenly.
Human skills face the lowest automation risk.
Structured + digital skills rise fastest.
Even coding trends upward.
Not tech vs people.
Judgment beats repetitive work.
January 23, 2026 at 4:07 PM
A new McKinsey chart says something important:
AI doesn’t replace jobs.
It reshapes skills — unevenly.
Human skills face the lowest automation risk.
Structured + digital skills rise fastest.
Even coding trends upward.
Not tech vs people.
Judgment beats repetitive work.
AI doesn’t replace jobs.
It reshapes skills — unevenly.
Human skills face the lowest automation risk.
Structured + digital skills rise fastest.
Even coding trends upward.
Not tech vs people.
Judgment beats repetitive work.
#CIOChat: Good chat today. Join us at 2pm ET next Thursday. Topic: New Budget Innovations
This is month 10 of our movie tie-ins. Hope you’ve enjoyed them.
Please suggest topics and invite your IT colleagues. Every Thursday at 2pm ET.
This is month 10 of our movie tie-ins. Hope you’ve enjoyed them.
Please suggest topics and invite your IT colleagues. Every Thursday at 2pm ET.
January 22, 2026 at 7:31 PM
#CIOChat: Good chat today. Join us at 2pm ET next Thursday. Topic: New Budget Innovations
This is month 10 of our movie tie-ins. Hope you’ve enjoyed them.
Please suggest topics and invite your IT colleagues. Every Thursday at 2pm ET.
This is month 10 of our movie tie-ins. Hope you’ve enjoyed them.
Please suggest topics and invite your IT colleagues. Every Thursday at 2pm ET.
#CIOChat Q4: Endgame: careers built around adaptability, judgment, and systems thinking — not tools. What’s your strategy to help employees thrive alongside AI, not chase it, as the pace of change accelerates?
January 22, 2026 at 7:25 PM
#CIOChat Q4: Endgame: careers built around adaptability, judgment, and systems thinking — not tools. What’s your strategy to help employees thrive alongside AI, not chase it, as the pace of change accelerates?
#CIOChat Q3: Prompting, orchestration, model governance, and human-AI teaming are becoming core skills, but most HR frameworks still reward static competencies. How are you measuring performance and potential in an AI-augmented workforce?
January 22, 2026 at 7:19 PM
#CIOChat Q3: Prompting, orchestration, model governance, and human-AI teaming are becoming core skills, but most HR frameworks still reward static competencies. How are you measuring performance and potential in an AI-augmented workforce?
#CIOChat Q2: Many CIOs say the biggest shift isn’t job loss (yet), but job volatility: Skills expiring in months, workflows changing quarterly, and titles losing meaning. How are you redefining careers when learning and roles never stabilize?
January 22, 2026 at 7:12 PM
#CIOChat Q2: Many CIOs say the biggest shift isn’t job loss (yet), but job volatility: Skills expiring in months, workflows changing quarterly, and titles losing meaning. How are you redefining careers when learning and roles never stabilize?
January 22, 2026 at 7:10 PM
#CIOChat Q1: AI isn’t just automating tasks, it’s reshaping entire roles. Which IT and digital careers are you seeing fundamentally change or disappear with AI or other tech, and which new roles are emerging faster than you expected?
January 22, 2026 at 7:09 PM
#CIOChat Q1: AI isn’t just automating tasks, it’s reshaping entire roles. Which IT and digital careers are you seeing fundamentally change or disappear with AI or other tech, and which new roles are emerging faster than you expected?
January 22, 2026 at 7:08 PM
#CIOChat Q1: AI isn’t just automating tasks, it’s reshaping entire roles. Which IT and digital careers are you seeing fundamentally change or disappear with AI or other tech, and which new roles are emerging faster than you expected?
I’ll have limited opportunity to reply from rainy Portugal today until later.
A reminder you can join and reply to answers at any time as well.
#CIOChat
A reminder you can join and reply to answers at any time as well.
#CIOChat
January 22, 2026 at 7:07 PM
I’ll have limited opportunity to reply from rainy Portugal today until later.
A reminder you can join and reply to answers at any time as well.
#CIOChat
A reminder you can join and reply to answers at any time as well.
#CIOChat
Work-from-office mandate? Expect top talent turnover, culture rot
www.cio.com/article/4119...
For the tech industry, this has been a tough call. And will continue to re-contour the IT landscape.
www.cio.com/article/4119...
For the tech industry, this has been a tough call. And will continue to re-contour the IT landscape.
Work-from-office mandate? Expect top talent turnover, culture rot
Organizations requiring IT workers to commute to an office need to ground decisions in value creation, focus on data-driven results, and avoid badge-swipe metrics, employment experts say.
www.cio.com
January 22, 2026 at 3:13 PM
Work-from-office mandate? Expect top talent turnover, culture rot
www.cio.com/article/4119...
For the tech industry, this has been a tough call. And will continue to re-contour the IT landscape.
www.cio.com/article/4119...
For the tech industry, this has been a tough call. And will continue to re-contour the IT landscape.
Walmart: This year, AI tinkering ‘becomes transformation’
www.ciodive.com/news/walmart...
After two years of experiments, the company is going into high gear around putting AI “out front” in both the digital and in-store experiences.
www.ciodive.com/news/walmart...
After two years of experiments, the company is going into high gear around putting AI “out front” in both the digital and in-store experiences.
Walmart: This year, AI tinkering ‘becomes transformation’
A year from now, customers will look back and realize just how much has changed about the shopping experience, Walmart’s Daniel Danker predicts.
www.ciodive.com
January 16, 2026 at 9:19 PM
Walmart: This year, AI tinkering ‘becomes transformation’
www.ciodive.com/news/walmart...
After two years of experiments, the company is going into high gear around putting AI “out front” in both the digital and in-store experiences.
www.ciodive.com/news/walmart...
After two years of experiments, the company is going into high gear around putting AI “out front” in both the digital and in-store experiences.
#CIOChat Good chat today. Join us at 2pm ET next Thursday. Topic: IT Careers in the AI Era
This is month 10 of our movie tie-ins. Hope you’ve enjoyed them.
Please suggest topics and invite your IT colleagues. Every Thursday at 2pm ET.
This is month 10 of our movie tie-ins. Hope you’ve enjoyed them.
Please suggest topics and invite your IT colleagues. Every Thursday at 2pm ET.
January 15, 2026 at 7:35 PM
#CIOChat Good chat today. Join us at 2pm ET next Thursday. Topic: IT Careers in the AI Era
This is month 10 of our movie tie-ins. Hope you’ve enjoyed them.
Please suggest topics and invite your IT colleagues. Every Thursday at 2pm ET.
This is month 10 of our movie tie-ins. Hope you’ve enjoyed them.
Please suggest topics and invite your IT colleagues. Every Thursday at 2pm ET.
#CIOChat Q4: Endgame: AI everywhere means GPU economics everywhere: On-prem clusters, regional GPU clouds, edge inference, and vendor-hosted models each with radically different cost and risk profiles. What’s your next-gen GPU portfolio strategy and why?
January 15, 2026 at 7:33 PM
#CIOChat Q4: Endgame: AI everywhere means GPU economics everywhere: On-prem clusters, regional GPU clouds, edge inference, and vendor-hosted models each with radically different cost and risk profiles. What’s your next-gen GPU portfolio strategy and why?
#CIOChat Q3: CIOs tell us GPU operating models now a strategic architecture decision.
How are you designing for cost control + sovereignty as GPU demand grows across LLMs, agents, RAG, and streaming inference?
How are you designing for cost control + sovereignty as GPU demand grows across LLMs, agents, RAG, and streaming inference?
January 15, 2026 at 7:28 PM
#CIOChat Q3: CIOs tell us GPU operating models now a strategic architecture decision.
How are you designing for cost control + sovereignty as GPU demand grows across LLMs, agents, RAG, and streaming inference?
How are you designing for cost control + sovereignty as GPU demand grows across LLMs, agents, RAG, and streaming inference?
#CIOChat Q2: New GPU clouds (CoreWeave, Lambda Cloud, etc.) promise cheaper inference, better scheduling, and more than hyperscalers. But raise questions around sovereignty, lifecycle maturity, and IP safety. Are you using any of these platforms, and what’s your evaluation?
January 15, 2026 at 7:23 PM
#CIOChat Q2: New GPU clouds (CoreWeave, Lambda Cloud, etc.) promise cheaper inference, better scheduling, and more than hyperscalers. But raise questions around sovereignty, lifecycle maturity, and IP safety. Are you using any of these platforms, and what’s your evaluation?
#CIOChat Q1: Inference is now the real cost center of AI, not training. Many CIOs say spend is shifting to continuous inference, including guardrails, vector search, and routing. Where are you seeing inference costs explode, and what keeps them predictable?
January 15, 2026 at 7:06 PM
#CIOChat Q1: Inference is now the real cost center of AI, not training. Many CIOs say spend is shifting to continuous inference, including guardrails, vector search, and routing. Where are you seeing inference costs explode, and what keeps them predictable?
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January 15, 2026 at 6:29 PM
IBM pushes sovereign computing with a software stack that works across cloud platforms
www.networkworld.com/article/4117...
I shared my thoughts with @networkworld.bsky.social on IBM’s interesting new approach to autonomy-based cloud.
www.networkworld.com/article/4117...
I shared my thoughts with @networkworld.bsky.social on IBM’s interesting new approach to autonomy-based cloud.
IBM pushes sovereign computing with a software stack that works across cloud platforms
By decoupling sovereignty from dedicated data center regions, IBM's Sovereign Core aims to help CIOs meet rising regulatory scrutiny, automate continuous compliance, and deploy sensitive AI workloads ...
www.networkworld.com
January 15, 2026 at 4:32 PM
IBM pushes sovereign computing with a software stack that works across cloud platforms
www.networkworld.com/article/4117...
I shared my thoughts with @networkworld.bsky.social on IBM’s interesting new approach to autonomy-based cloud.
www.networkworld.com/article/4117...
I shared my thoughts with @networkworld.bsky.social on IBM’s interesting new approach to autonomy-based cloud.
I’ll be speaking at #Predict2026 today, January 15! Join me as I dive into how #AI is forcing the CIO to reinvent cloud, security, and ops as it powers an entire new economy. Register for free: buff.ly/AQQFZdw
January 15, 2026 at 2:57 PM
I’ll be speaking at #Predict2026 today, January 15! Join me as I dive into how #AI is forcing the CIO to reinvent cloud, security, and ops as it powers an entire new economy. Register for free: buff.ly/AQQFZdw
The AI readiness gap: Why healthcare and insurance struggle to scale beyond pilots
www.cio.com/article/4115...
Pilots work great, but grappling with the reality of the regulated world stops them from going beyond. It turns out the CIO is uniquely equipped to address, however.
www.cio.com/article/4115...
Pilots work great, but grappling with the reality of the regulated world stops them from going beyond. It turns out the CIO is uniquely equipped to address, however.
The AI readiness gap: Why healthcare and insurance struggle to scale beyond pilots
Healthcare doesn’t fail at AI because of bad models. It fails because the enterprise isn’t ready to trust, govern or operationalize them.
www.cio.com
January 14, 2026 at 5:49 PM
The AI readiness gap: Why healthcare and insurance struggle to scale beyond pilots
www.cio.com/article/4115...
Pilots work great, but grappling with the reality of the regulated world stops them from going beyond. It turns out the CIO is uniquely equipped to address, however.
www.cio.com/article/4115...
Pilots work great, but grappling with the reality of the regulated world stops them from going beyond. It turns out the CIO is uniquely equipped to address, however.