Who leads the most AI projects with business impact at your company? The CEO or the CIO?

It would be interesting to know about the trend between Q3 2023 and QR 2024 where curves suddenly changed!

Adding to views, many new roles are emerging in the organisation to lead AI projects with business impact. For example, Chief AI Officer, Chief Digital Officer, Chief Data & Analytics Officer, 

It depends on the organisation. For example, if it is services company, CEO leads most AI projects from customer-centricity viewpoint. For manufacturing or product companies, CIO will be managing AI projects for business focus. If the organisation is federated, BU Heads may be incharge for implementing AI in collaboration with internal IT.

CIOs leading the thought leadership and be prime evangelist of AI..

The shift of technology appears to continue to change, bifrocating teams in to run the business vs accelerate the business. Most functions (CMO, CSCO, CHRO) are already talking to external companies on how to leverage the technology for a specific use case. Shadow IT is mentioned below and that is a very plausible reality. The Chief Innovation Officer may also be responsible for this area with those under the CIO continuing to be a shared service org.