Press Release46.9% of Enterprises Report AI Spend Over Budget in 2H 2026Mitch Ashley, VP and Practice Lead, CIO and Technology Buyers at Futurum, reveals that 46.9% of enterprises are running AI spend over budget, and traces how the overrun is funded by cutting external labor, in a survey of 1,636 IT decision makers.Mitch Ashley·September 10, 2026
Press ReleaseFuturum Survey Finds Organizations with a Chief AI Officer Are Nearly 3x More Likely to Reach Top AI MaturityFuturum survey of 820 global enterprise AI decision-makers finds that enterprise AI maturity correlates more strongly with dedicated AI leadership than with model selection — Stage 5 firms are 3x more likely to have a CAIO.Nick Patience·March 18, 2026
Press ReleaseEnterprises Prioritize Agent Observability Before They’ve Deployed AgentsMitch Ashley, VP & Software Lifecycle Engineering practice lead at Futurum, shares new research showing enterprises are prioritizing AI agent observability before agents are deployed at scale, outranking distributed tracing and AIOps in procurement priorities.Mitch Ashley·February 26, 2026
Press ReleaseThe Seven Principles of Observability-NativeMitch Ashley, VP Practice Lead at Futurum, shares his insights on why observability-native architecture is the prerequisite for enterprise AI agent deployment at scale and what the seven principles mean for vendors and practitioners.Mitch Ashley·February 25, 2026
Press ReleaseThe Great CIO Platform Reset: Why Agentic AI Is Forcing a 2026 ReckoningDion Hinchcliffe explains how CIOs are consolidating enterprise platforms around agentic AI, control planes, and cloud convergence as AI agents move from experimentation to execution in 2026.February 18, 2026
Press ReleaseTechnical Leaders Own 72% of Enterprise AI Purchasing PowerNick Patience, VP & AI Practice Lead at Futurum, shares his insights on new research that reveals CTOs lead AI purchasing at 25%, with technical roles controlling 72% of authority as organizations prioritize expertise.Nick Patience·November 11, 2025
Press ReleaseNew Cyber Hard Problems Report Is a Blueprint for the Future of Cybersecurity—Report SummaryFernando Montenegro, VP and Practice Lead at Futurum, examines the National Academies’ Cyber Hard Problems report and its implications for strategic cybersecurity transformation.Fernando Montenegro·June 23, 2025
Press ReleaseEnterprise AI Strategy and the CIO: What’s Happening in 2025Dion Hinchcliffe, VP and Practice Lead at Futurum, shares his insights on how CIOs are maturing their AI strategies in 2025 to prioritize scalable success, financial efficiency, and partner ecosystem control.June 17, 2025
Press ReleaseC-Suite Executives Dominate AI Decision-Making as Strategy Becomes PriorityNick Patience, VP & AI Practice Lead at Futurum, reveals CEOs and CTOs now drive 44.5% of AI decisions, showing a strategic shift from technology-first to business-first leadership in enterprise AI adoption.Nick Patience·May 16, 2025
Press ReleaseOrganizations Face Triple Threat in Generative AI: Privacy, Talent & ComplianceNick Patience, VP & AI Practice Lead at The Futurum Group, reveals key findings from comprehensive Generative AI implementation research showing data privacy (48.1%), talent scarcity (44.2%), and regulatory compliance (41.0%) as the top barriers organizations face in 2025.Nick Patience·April 30, 2025