the diginomica network - an inside view of how one CIO rebuilt software development around AI and people

This article shows how a CIO used AI to materially reshape software delivery by retraining engineers, redesigning the SDLC, and deploying multiple AI coding tools to increase speed and capacity. The business impact was significant: a modernization effort that had been expected to take 18 months was completed in four months, while cycle times shrank, pull requests tripled, and AI-driven automation surfaced and helped remediate vulnerabilities faster than traditional processes. For IT leaders, the strategic takeaway is that AI is becoming an operating model change—not just a tool choice—requiring deliberate change management, reskilling, security oversight, and metrics to balance acceleration with resilience and quality.