Amid an AI arms race and growing use of big data-fuelled analytics, the CEOs who navigate their companies through the choppy waters with a steady hand on the tiller will be those with appreciation for tech skills.
But current trends indicate that these are few and far between. Less than half of Chief Data Officers believe that their CEOs have a good understanding of their role (Deloitte) – in signs UK CEOs are not yet stepping up to the demands of the AI era.
In fact, this lack of technological fluency at the top may be hamstringing UK tech as a whole, as CEOs are happy to defer the responsibility of learning key technological skills such as Data & AI to their CDOs, a role that has become prominent in UK tech (Deloitte)....