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MS, ์‚ฌ๋‚ด ๋„์„œ๊ด€ ํ๊ด€ ๊ฒฐ์ •โ€ฆ AI ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ ํ•™์Šต ์ „ํ™˜ยท์ •๋ณด ๊ตฌ๋… ์ถ•์†Œ

16 January 2026 at 02:57

IT ์–ธ๋ก ์‚ฌ ๋”๋ฒ„์ง€๋Š” ์ตœ๊ทผ MS๊ฐ€ ์‚ฌ๋‚ด ๋„์„œ๊ด€์„ ํ์‡„ํ•˜๊ธฐ๋กœ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  15์ผ ๋ณด๋„ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๊ธฐ์กด์— ์ง์›๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์ œ๊ณต๋˜๋˜, ๊ฒฐ์ œ๋ฅผ ํ•ด์•ผ ์—ด๋žŒํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋˜ ์–ธ๋ก ์‚ฌ ๋“ฑ ์œ ๋ฃŒ ์ •๋ณด ์„œ๋น„์Šค ๊ตฌ๋…๋„ ์ค‘๋‹จํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ํŒŒ์•…๋๋‹ค.

๋”๋ฒ„์ง€๊ฐ€ ์ž…์ˆ˜ํ•œ MS ์‚ฌ๋‚ด ์•ˆ๋‚ด๋ฌธ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด MS๋Š” ๊ตฌ๋… ์„œ๋น„์Šค๊ฐ€ ๊ฐฑ์‹ ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ์ด์œ ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด โ€œ์Šคํ‚ฌ๋ง ํ—ˆ๋ธŒ(Skilling Hub)๋ผ๋Š” ๋‚ด๋ถ€ ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด๋‹ค ํ˜„๋Œ€์ ์ธ AI ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ ํ•™์Šต ๊ฒฝํ—˜์œผ๋กœ ์ „ํ™˜ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ์กฐ์น˜โ€๋ผ๊ณ  ์„ค๋ช…ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์–ด โ€œ๋„์„œ๊ด€์€ ์Šคํ‚ฌ๋ง ํ—ˆ๋ธŒ๋ฅผ ์ค‘์‹ฌ์œผ๋กœ ํ•œ ๋ณด๋‹ค ํ˜„๋Œ€์ ์ด๊ณ  ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ๋œ ํ•™์Šต ๊ฒฝํ—˜์œผ๋กœ ์ด๋™ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ณผ์ •์—์„œ ํ์‡„๋๋‹คโ€๋ฉฐ โ€œ์ด ๊ณต๊ฐ„์„ ์†Œ์ค‘ํžˆ ์—ฌ๊ฒจ์˜จ ๋งŽ์€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ณ€ํ™”๊ฐ€ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์นœ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์„ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹คโ€๊ณ  ๋ฐํ˜”๋‹ค.

๋˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ IT ์–ธ๋ก ์‚ฌ ๊ธฑ์™€์ด์–ด๊ฐ€ 15์ผ ๋ณด๋„ํ•œ ๋‚ด์šฉ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด, MS์— ๋ฌธ์˜ํ•œ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ MS๋Š” โ€œ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋ ˆ๋“œ๋จผ๋“œ, ์ธ๋„ ํ•˜์ด๋ฐ๋ผ๋ฐ”๋“œ, ์ค‘๊ตญ ๋ฒ ์ด์ง•, ์•„์ผ๋žœ๋“œ ๋”๋ธ”๋ฆฐ์— ์œ„์น˜ํ•œ MS์˜ ์‚ฌ๋‚ด ๋„์„œ๊ด€์ด ์ด๋ฒˆ ์ฃผ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ์‡„๋์œผ๋ฉฐ, ํ•ด๋‹น ๊ณต๊ฐ„๋“ค์€ ์ง์›๋“ค์ด ์‹ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์„ ํƒ์ƒ‰ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ทธ๋ฃน ํ•™์Šต๊ณผ ์‹คํ—˜์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ํ˜‘์—… ๊ณต๊ฐ„์œผ๋กœ ์žฌ๊ตฌ์„ฑ๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹คโ€๊ณ  ์„ค๋ช…ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

ํ•œํŽธ MS๊ฐ€ ๊ตฌ๋…์„ ์ค‘๋‹จํ•œ ์ •๋ณด ์„œ๋น„์Šค์—๋Š” IT ์–ธ๋ก ์‚ฌ ๋”์ธํฌ๋ฉ”์ด์…˜๊ณผ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ยท๊ฒฝ์ œ ๋ถ„์„ ์ „๋ฌธ ๋งค์ฒด ์ŠคํŠธ๋ž˜ํ‹ฐ์ง ๋‰ด์Šค ์„œ๋น„์Šค(Strategic News Service)๊ฐ€ ํฌํ•จ๋๋‹ค. ์ŠคํŠธ๋ž˜ํ‹ฐ์ง ๋‰ด์Šค ์„œ๋น„์Šค๋Š” ์•ฝ 20๋…„๊ฐ„ MS ์ง์›๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ๋ฆฌํฌํŠธ๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•ด์˜จ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์•Œ๋ ค์ ธ ์žˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค๋งŒ MS๋Š” ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ตฌ๋… ๋ฐ ์ •๋ณด ์„œ๋น„์Šค๋ฅผ ์ค‘๋‹จํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ๋ฉฐ โ€œ20๊ฐœ ์ด์ƒ์˜ ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ ์ž๋ฃŒ์™€ ๊ตฌ๋… ์„œ๋น„์Šค์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ ‘๊ทผ์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ณ , ์ง์›๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๊ฐ€์น˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ž์›์— ์šฐ์„ ์ˆœ์œ„๋ฅผ ๋‘๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹คโ€๊ณ  ๊ธฑ์™€์ด์–ด๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์„ค๋ช…ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

MS์˜ ์‚ฌ๋‚ด ๋„์„œ๊ด€์€ ์œ ์„œ ๊นŠ์€ ์—ญ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ง„ ๊ณณ์œผ๋กœ, MS ์„ค๋ฆฝ ์ดˆ๊ธฐ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์šด์˜๋˜๋ฉฐ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ทœ๋ชจ๋ฅผ ํ™•์žฅํ•ด์˜จ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์•Œ๋ ค์ ธ ์žˆ๋‹ค. ๋„์„œ๊ด€ ๋ฐ ์‚ฌ์„œ ์ปค๋ฎค๋‹ˆํ‹ฐ์ธ ๋ฆฝ์ฝ˜ํ”„(LibConf)์˜ 2018๋…„ ์ž๋ฃŒ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด MS๋Š” 1983๋…„ ์‚ฌ๋‚ด์— ์ฒซ ์‚ฌ์„œ๋ฅผ ์ฑ„์šฉํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋‹น์‹œ ์•ฝ 50๊ถŒ์˜ ์ฑ…์œผ๋กœ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ์ดํ›„์—๋Š” ์ฑ…์˜ ์–‘์ด ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋งŽ์•„ ๊ฑด๋ฌผ ํ•˜์ค‘์„ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•ด์•ผ ํ•  ์ •๋„์˜€๋‹ค๋Š” ์ผํ™”๋„ ์ „ํ•ด์ง„๋‹ค. ํ•ด๋‹น ๋‚ด์šฉ์€ MS ๋‚ด๋ถ€ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ์ž์ธ ๋ ˆ์ด๋ชฌ๋“œ ์ฒธ์ด 2020๋…„ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๋ธ”๋กœ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ๊ณต๊ฐœํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

MS ์ดˆ์ฐฝ๊ธฐ ์—”์ง€๋‹ˆ์–ด์ด์ž ์œˆ๋„์šฐ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ ์‚ฌ์žฅ์„ ์—ญ์ž„ํ•œ ์Šคํ‹ฐ๋ธ ์‹œ๋…ธํ”„์Šคํ‚ค๋Š” X ๊ณ„์ •์„ ํ†ตํ•ด, MS ์‚ฌ๋‚ด ๋„์„œ๊ด€์ด ํšŒ์‚ฌ ์ดˆ์ฐฝ๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ ˆ PC ๊ด€๋ จ ์„œ์ ์„ ๋น ์ง์—†์ด ๊ตฌ์ž…ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ง์›๋“ค์ด ํ•„์š”๋กœ ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ธฐ์‚ฌ ์‚ฌ๋ณธ์„ ์ „๋‹ฌํ•˜๋Š” ์—ญํ• ์„ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํšŒ์ƒํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
jihyun.lee@foundryco.com

Why IT transformations donโ€™t stick

13 January 2026 at 04:30

What ever happened to Digital? The Cloud? Agile? Flattening ITโ€™s org chart? ITIL/ITSM? Or whatever other transformational change was supposed to, well, transform IT but instead petered out into just another disappointing management fad?
Thereโ€™s no one culprit. But here are a few of the more popular preventable reasons that IT change efforts die on the vine.

Culprit #1: Wrong methodology

Sometimes, the change methodology is, not to put too fine a point on it, a chumpโ€™s game. Most reorganizations fall into this category.

Preventing reorganization failures is simple: Donโ€™t reorganize. Recognize that if you want a more effective organization, redrawing the IT org chart is about as promising as the legendary Save-the-Titanic methodology of rearranging its deck chairs.

Culprit #2: Cheaping out

Sometimes the hoped-for change was underbudgeted. Understanding this one might take a history lesson.

Back in the late 1990s IT planners figured out that its data architectsโ€™ practice of saving money by only storing the last two digits of any date field had outlived its usefulness and had become lethal in the extremis. Remarkably, addressing this โ€” the Y2K crisis โ€” turned into what just might have been the most successful IT change effort in history.

Which led to the most colossal failure of appreciation in the history of the business world. In any event, in the months following the worldwide success of ITโ€™s Y2K remediation efforts, various groups conducted post-non-mortem analyses to figure out what had, mystifyingly, gone right.

Among the critical success factors, one stood out: Around the world, Y2K remediation efforts werenโ€™t starved for resources. And oh, by the way, the Y2K crisis was neither a hoax nor the result of incompetence. But given our speciesโ€™ proclivity to assign blame whenever we have the opportunity, thereโ€™s little point trying to convince anyone.

But still, we might decide to learn from this success and give our change efforts a chance by giving them enough staff and budget.

Culprit #3: What starts out as a fad stays a fad

Ready for another organizational change killer? Hereโ€™s a simple one: They became failed fads because the whole reason for trying them in the first place was that they were a trend someone influential had spotted and promoted. They became fads, that is, because they started out as fads.

Culprit #4: The 7x7x7 challenge

The first three culprits are the easy ones. Or at least, theyโ€™re conceptually easy. Increasing project budgets, for example, certainly isnโ€™t easy to do. Itโ€™s just easy to understand.

Now comes the hard one โ€” the one where even if you do everything right the hill youโ€™ll have to climb is steep. Itโ€™s like this:

Among the factors that make change hard is the need for all participants and stakeholders to have a deep and intuitive understanding of what the change will feel like when theyโ€™re living in it.

To understand the challenge, imagine that someone invented a flying car, and for some strange reason IT received the assignment of making a corporate fleet of airborne automotive vehicles real. What would that feel like. Pretty cool, right?

Well โ€ฆ

If you wanted flying cars to succeed, youโ€™d need to give everyone who might drive one of the cars an intuitive feeling of what navigating through heavy traffic would be like.

โ€œTerrifyingโ€ is the word that comes to mind. Spotting bikes, motorized scooters, other drivers, and the occasional fearless pedestrian is hard enough in a 2D driving environment. Your companyโ€™s drivers would have to spot vehicles above and below, and at all diagonal vectors, too. Even something as seemingly simple as a 3D turn signal gets complicated in a hurry.

Making this change successful would call for more than a souped-up driversโ€™ education course. Youโ€™re going to need future drivers to gain an intuitive sense of what driving in 3D traffic feels like. Youโ€™ll need photo- and haptically-realistic simulators.

Which gets us (finally!) to the 7x7x7 challenge.

Think about how you might describe how things are done right now in their pre-change state, as you would to train new employees. That might call for a PowerPoint slide with seven linked boxes on it, seven being the number of items viewers can easily grasp at a glance.

Itโ€™s a view thatโ€™s easy to grasp, but too superficial to be complete. To be useful, each of those boxes would need more explanation. So, figure youโ€™d have to create explanatory PowerPoint slides for each box in the higher-level slides, with โ€œexplanatoryโ€ meaning that each of the seven boxes would need seven explanatory boxes of their own. Thatโ€™s seven by seven: 49 boxes.

The 49-box view of things is more helpful but still oversimplifies the current state by quite a lot. It isnโ€™t until you craft seven-box views for each of these seven boxes to provide enough information โ€” 343 boxes worth in total โ€” to fully describe how things happen now.

Thatโ€™s the level of depth that the changeโ€™s stakeholders will need in order to understand what living inside the change will feel like โ€” for it to be real.

Making a change sticky calls for an equivalent 343-box account of the future state.

And oh, by the way, this has little to do with the essential analysis required to make sure these new 343 boxes deliver the old results, and deliver them better. Living inside them doesnโ€™t make them better.

And โ€œbetterโ€ wonโ€™t happen immediately either. The current way of doing things has, by now, been sanded and varnished to a shine. Even if the new way of doing things would theoretically be an improvement, it wonโ€™t be an actual improvement until itโ€™s been sanded and varnished to its own shine.

The 343-box perspective isnโ€™t limited to processes and practices. It describes the process optimization methodologies and frameworks organizations use to design the new 343 boxes; the new organizational chart (the real one, not the oversimplified version that shows only a couple of layers); not to mention the business culture a leader might want to change.

In the end, large-scale changes are hard to nail into place. Sometimes thatโ€™s because leaders make easy-to-avoid mistakes. But often itโ€™s because of how difficult it is to help everyone feel what the result is supposed to feel like once the organization tries to make the change real.

See also:

โ€œIT ๊ด€๋ฆฌ ์‹œ๋Œ€๋Š” ๋๋‚ฌ๋‹คโ€ 2026๋…„ CIO์˜ 7๊ฐ€์ง€ ์—ญํ•  ๋ณ€ํ™”

8 January 2026 at 02:26

AI ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ ์—”ํ„ฐํ”„๋ผ์ด์ฆˆ ์ „ํ™˜์ด ๊ฐ€์†ํ™”๋˜๋ฉด์„œ CIO์˜ ์œ„์ƒ์€ ๋” ๋†’์•„์งˆ ์ „๋ง์ด๋‹ค. ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ํŒŒ์ดํ”„๋ผ์ธ๊ณผ ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ํ”Œ๋žซํผ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์†”๋ฃจ์…˜ ์—…์ฒด ์„ ์ •, ์ž„์ง์› ๊ต์œก, ์‹ฌ์ง€์–ด ํ•ต์‹ฌ ์—…๋ฌด ํ”„๋กœ์„ธ์Šค๊นŒ์ง€ ๋ชจ๋“  ์˜์—ญ์ด ๋ฐ”๋€Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ธฐ์—…์„ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜๋กœ ์ด๋Œ๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ์กฐ์œจ์˜ ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์šด๋ฐ์— CIO๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋‹ค.

2024๋…„ ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ๋ฆฌ๋”๋“ค์˜ ๊ณ ๋ฏผ์ด โ€˜AI๊ฐ€ ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ์ž‘๋™ํ•˜๋Š”๊ฐ€, ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋„์ž…ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ธ๊ฐ€โ€™์˜€๋‹ค๋ฉด, 2025๋…„์—๋Š” โ€˜์ƒˆ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์˜ ์ตœ์  ์‚ฌ์šฉ๋ก€๋Š” ๋ฌด์—‡์ธ๊ฐ€โ€™๊ฐ€ ํ•ต์‹ฌ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค. 2026๋…„์€ ๋‹ค๋ฅด๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ ๊ด€์‹ฌ์€ โ€˜ํ™•์žฅโ€™๊ณผ โ€˜์—…๋ฌด ๋ฐฉ์‹์˜ ๊ทผ๋ณธ์  ์ „ํ™˜โ€™์œผ๋กœ ์˜ฎ๊ฒจ๊ฐ„๋‹ค. AI๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ง์›, ์กฐ์ง, ๋‚˜์•„๊ฐ€ ๊ธฐ์—… ์ „์ฒด๊ฐ€ ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ์ž‘๋™ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์‹์„ ๋ฐ”๊พธ๋Š” ๋‹จ๊ณ„๊ฐ€ ๋ณธ๊ฒฉํ™”๋œ๋‹ค. ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์— IT๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋–ค ์—ญํ• ๋กœ ์ธ์‹๋๋“ , ์ด์ œ IT๋Š” ์กฐ์ง ์žฌํŽธ์„ ์ด๋„๋Š” ๋™๋ ฅ์ด ๋๋‹ค.

ํ–ฅํ›„ 12๊ฐœ์›” ๋™์•ˆ CIO ์—ญํ• ์ด ๋‹ฌ๋ผ์งˆ 7๊ฐ€์ง€๋ฅผ ์ •๋ฆฌํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

โ€œ์‹คํ—˜์€ ๊ทธ๋งŒโ€ ์ด์ œ ๊ฐ€์น˜ ์ฐฝ์ถœ์˜ ์‹œ๊ฐ„

์ธ์‹œ๋˜ํŠธ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ ๊ธฐ์—… ํŽ˜์ด์ €๋“€ํ‹ฐ(PagerDuty)์˜ CIO ์—๋ฆญ ์กด์Šจ์€ 2026๋…„ CIO ์—ญํ• ์ด AI ๋•๋ถ„์— ๋” ์ข‹์•„์งˆ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ฉฐ, ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค ๊ฐ€์น˜์™€ ๊ธฐํšŒ๊ฐ€ ๋งค์šฐ ํด ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณธ๋‹ค.

์กด์Šจ์€ โ€œ๊ธˆ์ด๋‚˜ ๊ฐ’๋น„์‹ผ ๊ด‘๋ฌผ์ด ๊ฐ€๋“ํ•œ ๊ด‘์‚ฐ์„ ๊ฐ–๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์บ๋‚ด์•ผ ์˜จ์ „ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ์–ป์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„์ง€ ํ™•์‹ ์ด ์—†๋Š” ์ƒํ™ฉโ€์ด๋ผ๋ฉฐ, โ€œ์ง€๋‚œ ๋ช‡ ๋…„๊ฐ„ ์ถ•์ ํ•œ ํ•™์Šต์„ ๋ฐ”ํƒ•์œผ๋กœ AI์—์„œ ์˜๋ฏธ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ์ฐพ์•„๋‚ด๋ผ๋Š” ์ฃผ๋ฌธโ€์„ ๋ฐ›๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

๋‹ค๋งŒ ๋‚œ์ด๋„๋Š” ๋” ์˜ฌ๋ผ๊ฐ”๋‹ค. ๋ณ€ํ™” ์†๋„๊ฐ€ ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ๋ณด๋‹ค ํ›จ์”ฌ ๋นจ๋ผ์กŒ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ด๋‹ค. ์กด์Šจ์€ โ€œ12๊ฐœ์›” ์ „์˜ ์ƒ์„ฑํ˜• AI๋Š” ์˜ค๋Š˜์˜ ์ƒ์„ฑํ˜• AI์™€ ์™„์ „ํžˆ ๋‹ค๋ฅด๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ๋ณ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ์ง€์ผœ๋ณด๋Š” ํ˜„์—… ์ฑ…์ž„์ž๋„ ๋ช‡ ๋‹ฌ ์ „์—” ๋“ฃ์ง€๋„ ๋ชปํ–ˆ๋˜ ์‚ฌ์šฉ๋ก€๋ฅผ ์ ‘ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ๋‹คโ€๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ง๋ถ™์˜€๋‹ค.

โ€˜IT ๊ด€๋ฆฌ์žโ€™์—์„œ โ€˜๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค ์ „๋žต๊ฐ€โ€™๋กœ

์ „ํ†ต์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ธฐ์—… IT ์กฐ์ง์€ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋ถ€์„œ๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ์ง€์› ์—ญํ• ์— ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•ด ์™”๋‹ค. ์ปจ์„คํŒ… ๊ธฐ์—… KPMG US์˜ ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ์ด์ž ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ์ปจ์„คํŒ… ์ด๊ด„ ์ฑ…์ž„์ž ๋งˆ์ปค์Šค ๋จธํ”„๋Š” โ€œ์š”๊ตฌ์‚ฌํ•ญ์„ ๋งํ•˜๋ฉด, ๊ทธ๊ฑธ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด ์ฃผ๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์‹โ€์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ํ‘œํ˜„ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ IT๋Š” โ€˜๋ฐฑ์˜คํ”ผ์Šค ์ฃผ๋ฌธ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ์žโ€™์—์„œ โ€˜ํ˜์‹ ์„ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์„ค๊ณ„ํ•˜๋Š” ๋™๋ฐ˜์žโ€™๋กœ ๋ณ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค. ๋จธํ”„๋Š” โ€œ์ ์–ด๋„ ํ–ฅํ›„ 10๋…„์€ ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ๋ณ€ํ™”๊ฐ€ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๊ธ‰๊ฒฉํ•ด ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋ฐฑ์˜คํ”ผ์Šค๋กœ ๋Œ์•„๊ฐ€๊ธฐ ์–ด๋ ต๋‹คโ€๋ผ๋ฉฐ, โ€œ์ธํ„ฐ๋„ท์ด๋‚˜ ๋ชจ๋ฐ”์ผ ์‹œ๋Œ€ ์ดํ›„ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋น ๋ฅธ โ€˜์ดˆ๊ฐ€์† ๋ณ€ํ™” ์‚ฌ์ดํดโ€™์ด๋ฉฐ, ์–ด์ฉŒ๋ฉด ๊ทธ ์ด์ƒโ€์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ถ„์„ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

๋ณ€ํ™”๊ด€๋ฆฌ์˜ ๋ฆฌ๋”์‹ญ

AI๊ฐ€ ์—…๋ฌด ๋ฐฉ์‹์„ ๋ฐ”๊พธ๋ฉด์„œ CIO๋Š” ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ๋„์ž…์„ ๋„˜์–ด ๋ณ€ํ™”๊ด€๋ฆฌ์˜ ์ „๋ฉด์— ์„œ์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์ปค์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

๊ธˆ์œต ์„œ๋น„์Šค ๊ธฐ์—… ํ”„๋ฆฐ์‹œํŽ„ ํŒŒ์ด๋‚ธ์…œ ๊ทธ๋ฃน(Principal Financial Group)์˜ ์—”ํ„ฐํ”„๋ผ์ด์ฆˆ ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค ์†”๋ฃจ์…˜ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ VP ๊ฒธ CIO ๋ผ์ด์–ธ ๋‹ค์šฐ๋‹์€ โ€œ๋…ผ์˜์˜ ์ƒ๋‹น ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ด AI ์†”๋ฃจ์…˜์„ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๊ตฌํ˜„ํ•˜๊ณ , ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ž‘๋™์‹œํ‚ค๋ฉฐ, ์–ด๋–ค ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ๋”ํ•˜๋Š”์ง€์— ์ง‘์ค‘๋ผ ์žˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ AI๊ฐ€ ํ˜„์žฌ ์—…๋ฌด ๊ณต๊ฐ„์— ํ˜์‹ ์„ ๊ฐ€์ ธ์˜ค๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, โ€˜๋ชจ๋‘์˜ ์ผํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์‹โ€™ ์ž์ฒด๋ฅผ ๊ทผ๋ณธ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐ”๊พธ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹คโ€๋ผ๊ณ  ์„ค๋ช…ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

๋‹ค์šฐ๋‹์€ ์—ญํ• ๊ณผ ์ „๋ฌธ์„ฑ, ์ˆ˜๋…„๊ฐ„ ํ•ด์˜ค๋˜ ์—…๋ฌด์˜ ๊ฐ€์น˜ ์ œ์•ˆ๊นŒ์ง€ ์žฌ์ •์˜ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•˜๋Š” ์ถฉ๊ฒฉ์ด ์˜ฌ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋‚ด๋‹ค๋ดค๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ, โ€œ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋“ค์—ฌ์˜ค๋Š” ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์ด โ€˜๋ฏธ๋ž˜์˜ ์ผโ€™ ์ž์ฒด๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹คโ€๋ผ๋ฉฐ, โ€œ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์„ ๋„˜์–ด ๋ณ€ํ™”์˜ ์ด‰๋งค๊ฐ€ ๋ผ์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹คโ€๋ผ๊ณ  ๊ฐ•์กฐํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

๋ณ€ํ™”๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋Š” IT ์กฐ์ง ๋‚ด๋ถ€์—์„œ ๋จผ์ € ์‹œ์ž‘๋œ๋‹ค. ๋ณด์Šคํ„ด ์ปจ์„คํŒ… ๊ทธ๋ฃน(BCG)์˜ ์ด๊ด„ ์ฑ…์ž„์ž ๊ฒธ CTO์ธ ๋งท ํฌ๋กญ์€ โ€œ์†Œํ”„ํŠธ์›จ์–ด ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ ๋ถ„์•ผ๊ฐ€ AI ์ ์šฉ์ด ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์•ž์„œ ์žˆ๊ณ , ๋„๊ตฌ๋„ ๋น„๊ต์  ์˜ค๋ž˜์ „๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์กด์žฌํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ์†Œํ”„ํŠธ์›จ์–ด ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ์ž์—๊ฒŒ AI ์—์ด์ „ํŠธ๋ฅผ ์ ์šฉํ–ˆ์„ ๋•Œ์˜ ์˜ํ–ฅ์€ ๋งค์šฐ ๋ช…ํ™•ํ•˜๋‹คโ€๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

IT ์กฐ์ง์ด ๋จผ์ € ๊ฒช์€ ํ˜์‹ ์—์„œ ์–ป์€ ๊ตํ›ˆ์„ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์‚ฌ์—…๋ถ€๋กœ ํ™•์žฅํ•  ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ๋‹ค. ํฌ๋กญ์€ โ€œAI ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ ์†Œํ”„ํŠธ์›จ์–ด ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ์—์„œ ๋ฒŒ์–ด์ง€๋Š” ์ผ์€ โ€˜ํƒ„๊ด‘์˜ ์นด๋‚˜๋ฆฌ์•„โ€™ ๊ฐ™์€ ์‹ ํ˜ธโ€๋ผ๋ฉฐ, โ€œ์ƒ์‚ฐ์„ฑ ํ–ฅ์ƒ์„ ํ™•๋ณดํ•˜๋Š” ๋™์‹œ์—, ์ „์‚ฌ์—์„œ ์žฌ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•  ๋ณ€ํ™”๊ด€๋ฆฌ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์„ ๋งŒ๋“œ๋Š” ๊ธฐํšŒ๊ฐ€ ๋œ๋‹คโ€๊ณ  ์„ค๋ช…ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜, โ€œ๊ทธ ์ถœ๋ฐœ์ ์ด CIOโ€๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ง๋ถ™์˜€๋‹ค.

์กฐ์ง ์ตœ์ƒ๋‹จ์˜ ๋ฒ ์ŠคํŠธ ํ”„๋ž™ํ‹ฐ์Šค๋„ ์ค‘์š”ํ•ด์ง„๋‹ค. ํฌ๋กญ์€ โ€œ์กฐ์ง์˜ ๋ฆฌ๋”๊ฐ€ AI๋ฅผ ์ง์ ‘ ์“ฐ๊ณ , ์—…๋ฌด์—์„œ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜๋Š”์ง€ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๋ฉฐ โ€˜AI ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ด ํ—ˆ์šฉ๋˜๊ณ , ๋ฐ›์•„๋“ค์—ฌ์ง€๋ฉฐ, ๊ธฐ๋Œ€๋œ๋‹คโ€™๋Š” ๋ฉ”์‹œ์ง€๋ฅผ ์ค˜์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹คโ€๋ผ๊ณ  ์ œ์–ธํ–ˆ๋‹ค. CIO์™€ ๊ฒฝ์˜์ง„์€ AI๋กœ ๋ฉ”๋ชจ ์ดˆ์•ˆ์„ ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ณ , ํšŒ์˜๋ก์„ ์ •๋ฆฌํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์ „๋žต ๊ตฌ์ƒ์„ ๋•๋Š” ์‹์œผ๋กœ ์‚ฌ์šฉ ๋ฒ”์œ„๋ฅผ ๋„“ํž ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.

๋‹ค๋งŒ โ€˜์ „์‚ฌ์  AI ๋ฐฐํฌโ€™๋Š” ๊ฐˆ๋“ฑ์ด ํฐ ์ด์Šˆ๊ฐ€ ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค. ์นด๋„ค๊ธฐ๋ฉœ๋Ÿฐ๋Œ€ ๊ต์ˆ˜ ์•„๋ฆฌ ๋ผ์ดํŠธ๋จผ์€ โ€œ๊ธฐ์—…์€ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ๋งŽ์€ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ์“ฐ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ง์› ๊ฒฝํ—˜์— ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ณณ์€ ๋“œ๋ฌผ๋‹คโ€๋ผ๊ณ  ์ง€์ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ, โ€œ์ „์‚ฌ AI ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์„ ์ถœ๋ฒ”ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ์ง€์ง€ํ•˜๊ณ  ํฅ๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ๋А๋ผ๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋„ ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, โ€˜๋ง๊ฐ€๋œจ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด ํ•˜๋Š”โ€™ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋„ ๋‚˜์˜จ๋‹คโ€๋ผ๋ฉฐ, โ€œ์ง์›๋“ค์ด ๊ฐ€์ง„ ๋ฌธ์ œ๋ฅผ ํ•ด๊ฒฐํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ•˜๋ฉด ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ๊ฐ€ ์ค‘๋‹จ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹คโ€๋ผ๊ณ  ๊ฒฝ๊ณ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ์ •๋น„๊ฐ€ ํ™•์žฅ์˜ ์ „์ œ ์กฐ๊ฑด

AI ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ๊ฐ€ ํ™•์žฅ๋ ์ˆ˜๋ก ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ์š”๊ตฌ๋„ ์ปค์ง„๋‹ค. ์ œํ•œ์ ยท์„ ๋ณ„๋œ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋งŒ์œผ๋กœ๋Š” ๋ถ€์กฑํ•˜๊ณ , ์•„์ง IT ํ˜„๋Œ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ๊ตฌํ˜„ํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ•œ ๊ธฐ์—…์€ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ์Šคํƒ์„ ์ •๋น„ํ•ด AI๊ฐ€ ์“ฐ๊ธฐ ์ข‹์€ ํ˜•ํƒœ๋กœ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค. ์ด์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋ณด์•ˆยท์ปดํ”Œ๋ผ์ด์–ธ์Šค๊นŒ์ง€ ํ™•๋ณดํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค.

์›Œ๋„ˆ๋ฎค์ง(Warner Music)์˜ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ VP ์• ๋Ÿฐ ๋Ÿฌ์ปค๋Š” โ€œAI์—์„œ ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ์ฐฝ์ถœํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์„ ๋จผ์ € ๋‹ค์ง€๊ณ  ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ์ธํ”„๋ผ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ–์ถฐ์กŒ๋Š”์ง€ ํ™•์ธํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹คโ€๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ฐํ˜”๋‹ค.

ํŠนํžˆ AI ์—์ด์ „ํŠธ๊ฐ€ ์ž์œจ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ์†Œ์Šค๋ฅผ ํƒ์ƒ‰ํ•˜๊ณ  ์งˆ์˜ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋ฉด์„œ ๋ณด์•ˆ ์ด์Šˆ๋Š” ๋” ์ปค์ง„๋‹ค. ์†Œ๊ทœ๋ชจ ํŒŒ์ผ๋Ÿฟ์ด๋‚˜ RAG ๋‚ด์žฅ ๋‹จ๊ณ„์—์„œ๋Š” ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ์ž๊ฐ€ ํ”„๋กฌํ”„ํŠธ์— ๋ถ™์ผ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ์—„๊ฒฉํžˆ ์„ ๋ณ„ํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, โ€˜์—์ด์ „ํŠธ ์‹œ๋Œ€โ€™์—๋Š” ์ธ๊ฐ„์˜ ํ†ต์ œ๊ฐ€ ์•ฝํ•ด์ง€๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์‚ฌ๋ผ์งˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ํ†ต์ œ๋Š” ์• ํ”Œ๋ฆฌ์ผ€์ด์…˜์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ์ž์ฒด์— ๋” ๋ฐ€์ ‘ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ ์šฉํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒฐ๋ก ์œผ๋กœ ์ด์–ด์ง„๋‹ค.

๋Ÿฌ์ปค๋Š” โ€œAI๋ฅผ ์ด์šฉํ•ด ๋” ์‹ ์†ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์›€์ง์ด๊ณ  ์‹ถ๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ, ๋™์‹œ์— ๊ถŒํ•œ์„ ์ œ๋Œ€๋กœ ์„ค์ •ํ•ด ๋ˆ„๊ตฐ๊ฐ€ ์ฑ—๋ด‡์— ์ž…๋ ฅํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์— โ€˜๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์ž์‚ฐโ€™์ด ์œ ์ถœ๋˜๋Š” ์ผ์ด ์—†๋„๋ก ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹คโ€๋ผ๊ณ  ๊ฐ•์กฐํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

์ง์ ‘ ๊ตฌ์ถ•์ด๋ƒ ์„œ๋น„์Šค ๊ตฌ๋งค๋ƒ

2026๋…„์—๋Š” AI๋ฅผ โ€˜์ง์ ‘ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœํ• ์ง€, ๊ตฌ๋งคํ• ์ง€โ€™ ๊ฒฐ์ •ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ๋ณด๋‹ค ํ›จ์”ฌ ํฐ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์นœ๋‹ค. ๋งŽ์€ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ์†”๋ฃจ์…˜ ์—…์ฒด๊ฐ€ ๋” ๋น ๋ฅด๊ณ , ๋” ์ž˜ ๋งŒ๋“ค๋ฉฐ, ๋” ์ €๋ ดํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ œ๊ณตํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค. ๋” ๋‚˜์€ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์ด ๋“ฑ์žฅํ•˜๋ฉด, ๋‚ด๋ถ€์—์„œ ์ฒ˜์Œ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋งŒ๋“  ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์„ ๋ฐ”๊พธ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋” ์‰ฝ๊ฒŒ ์ „ํ™˜ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.

๋ฐ˜๋ฉด ์ผ๋ถ€ ํ”„๋กœ์„ธ์Šค๋Š” ํ•ต์‹ฌ ๊ฐ€์น˜์ด์ž ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ๋ ฅ์˜ ๊ทผ๊ฐ„์ด ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค. ๋Ÿฌ์ปค๋Š” โ€œ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์—๊ฒŒ HR์€ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ๋ ฅ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์›Œํฌ๋ฐ์ด๊ฐ€ ๊ทœ์ •์„ ์ค€์ˆ˜ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฌด์–ธ๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“œ๋Š” ๋ฐ ๋” ์œ ๋ฆฌํ•˜๋‹คโ€๋ผ๋ฉฐ โ€œ๊ทธ๊ฑธ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์ง์ ‘ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•  ์ด์œ ๊ฐ€ ์—†๋‹คโ€๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ง๋ถ™์˜€๋‹ค.

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋ฉด์„œ๋„ โ€œ์›Œ๋„ˆ๋ฎค์ง์ด ์ „๋žต์  ์šฐ์œ„๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์˜์—ญ๋„ ์žˆ๋‹ค. AI ๊ด€์ ์—์„œ ๊ทธ ์šฐ์œ„๊ฐ€ ๋ฌด์—‡์ธ์ง€ ์ •์˜ํ•˜๋Š” ์ผ์ด ์ค‘์š”ํ•ด์งˆ ๊ฒƒโ€์ด๋ผ๋ฉฐ, โ€œAI๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ AI๋ฅผ ํ•˜๋ฉด ์•ˆ ๋œ๋‹ค. ๊ธฐ์—… ์ „๋žต์„ ๋ฐ˜์˜ํ•œ ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค ๊ฐ€์น˜์— ์—ฐ๊ฒฐํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹คโ€๋ผ๊ณ  ๊ฐ•์กฐํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

์™ธ๋ถ€ ์†”๋ฃจ์…˜ ์—…์ฒด์— ํ•ต์‹ฌ ํ”„๋กœ์„ธ์Šค๋ฅผ ๋งก๊ธฐ๋ฉด, ์—…์ฒด๊ฐ€ ํ•ด๋‹น ์‚ฐ์—…์„ ๊ธฐ์กด ํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์–ด๋ณด๋‹ค ๋” ๊นŠ์ด ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋  ์œ„ํ—˜๋„ ์žˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜๋ฒ„๋“œ ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค ์Šค์ฟจ์˜ ์ตœ๊ณ  ํŽ ๋กœ์šฐ์ด์ž GAI ์ธ์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ(GAI Insights) ๊ณต๋™ ์„ค๋ฆฝ์ž์ธ ์กด ์Šค๋น„์˜คํด๋ผ๋Š” โ€œ์—…๋ฌด ํ”„๋กœ์„ธ์Šค๋ฅผ ๋””์ง€ํ„ธํ™”ํ•˜๋ฉด ํ–‰๋™ ์ž๋ณธ, ๋„คํŠธ์›Œํฌ ์ž๋ณธ, ์ธ์ง€ ์ž๋ณธ์ด ์Œ“์ธ๋‹ค. ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์—๋Š” ์ง์›์˜ ๋จธ๋ฆฟ์†์—๋งŒ ์žˆ๋˜ ๋ฌด์–ธ๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ํ’€์–ด๋‚ด๋Š” ํšจ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋‹คโ€๋ผ๊ณ  ์„ค๋ช…ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

๋งŽ์€ ๊ธฐ์—…์ด ์ด๋ฏธ ์ž์‚ฌ์˜ ํ–‰๋™ ์ž๋ณธ์„ ๊ตฌ๊ธ€์ด๋‚˜ ํŽ˜์ด์Šค๋ถ๊ณผ, ๋„คํŠธ์›Œํฌ ์ž๋ณธ์„ ํŽ˜์ด์Šค๋ถ์ด๋‚˜ ๋งํฌ๋“œ์ธ๊ณผ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค. ์Šค๋น„์˜คํด๋ผ๋Š” โ€œ์ธ์ง€ ์ž๋ณธ์„ โ€˜๊ฐ’์‹ผ ์ถ”๋ก โ€™์ด๋‚˜ โ€˜๊ฐ’์‹ผ ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ์ ‘๊ทผโ€™๊ณผ ๋งž๋ฐ”๊พธ๋Š” ๊ฑด ๋งค์šฐ ๋‚˜์œ ์„ ํƒโ€์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๊ฒฝ๊ณ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ์Šค๋น„์˜คํด๋ผ๋Š” โ€œAI ๊ธฐ์—…์ด๋‚˜ ํ•˜์ดํผ์Šค์ผ€์ผ๋Ÿฌ๊ฐ€ ์ง€๊ธˆ ๋‹น์žฅ ๊ทธ ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋”๋ผ๋„, ํ•ด๋‹น ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค๋ฅผ ์ดํ•ดํ•  โ€˜์Šคํƒ€ํ„ฐ ํ‚คํŠธโ€™๋ฅผ ์ฃผ๋Š” ์…ˆ์ด๋‹ค. ๊ธฐํšŒ๊ฐ€ ํฌ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํŒ๋‹จํ•˜๋ฉด ์ˆ˜์‹ญ์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ์Ÿ์•„๋ถ€์–ด ์‹œ์žฅ์— ์ง„์ž…ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹คโ€๋ผ๊ณ  ์„ค๋ช…ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

์œ ์—ฐ์„ฑ์ด ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ํ”Œ๋žซํผ ์„ ํƒ

AI๊ฐ€ ์ผํšŒ์„ฑ PoC์™€ ํŒŒ์ผ๋Ÿฟ์—์„œ ์ „์‚ฌ ํ™•์‚ฐ์œผ๋กœ ๋„˜์–ด๊ฐ€๋ฉด, ๊ธฐ์—…์€ AI ํ”Œ๋žซํผ ์„ ํƒ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๊ณผ์ œ์™€ ๋งˆ์ฃผํ•œ๋‹ค. ํ”„๋ฆฐ์‹œํŽ„์˜ ๋‹ค์šฐ๋‹์€ โ€œ๋ณ€ํ™”๊ฐ€ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋น ๋ฅด๋‹ค ๋ณด๋‹ˆ ์žฅ๊ธฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ˆ„๊ฐ€ ๋ฆฌ๋”๊ฐ€ ๋ ์ง€ ์•„์ง ๋ชจ๋ฅธ๋‹ค. ์˜๋ฏธ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ฒ ํŒ…์„ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ, โ€˜ํ•˜๋‚˜๋ฅผ ๊ณจ๋ผ์„œ ๋โ€™์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ•  ๋‹จ๊ณ„๋Š” ์•„๋‹ˆ๋‹คโ€๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

ํ•ต์‹ฌ์€ ํ™•์žฅ์„ฑ์ด ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉด์„œ๋„ ๋ถ„๋ฆฌ๋œ ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์„ ๊ณ ๋ฅด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์•ผ ๊ธฐ์—…์ด ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ ์ „ํ™˜ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ๋„ ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ํ™•๋ณดํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค์šฐ๋‹์€ โ€œ์ง€๊ธˆ์€ ์œ ์—ฐ์„ฑ์„ ์ตœ์šฐ์„ ์œผ๋กœ ๋‘๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹คโ€๋ผ๊ณ  ๊ฐ•์กฐํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ฒฝ์˜ ์ปจ์„คํŒ… ๊ธฐ์—… ์›จ์ŠคํŠธ ๋จผ๋กœ ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ์Šค(West Monroe Partners)์˜ ์ตœ๊ณ  AI ์ฑ…์ž„์ž ๋ธŒ๋ › ๊ทธ๋ฆฐ์Šคํƒ€์ธ์€ CIO๊ฐ€ โ€˜์•ˆ์ •์ ์ธ ์š”์†Œโ€™์™€ โ€˜๊ธ‰๋ณ€ํ•˜๋Š” ์š”์†Œโ€™๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ๋ถ„ํ•ด ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์„ ์„ค๊ณ„ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์กฐ์–ธํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฐ์Šคํƒ€์ธ์€ โ€œAI๋Š” ํด๋ผ์šฐ๋“œ ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์ด์— ๋‘ฌ๋ผ. ํด๋ผ์šฐ๋“œ๋Š” ์•ˆ์ •์ ์ผ ๊ฒƒโ€์ด๋ผ๋ฉฐ, โ€œํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ AI ์—์ด์ „ํŠธ ํ”„๋ ˆ์ž„์›Œํฌ๋Š” 6๊ฐœ์›”์ด๋ฉด ๋ฐ”๋€” ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์œผ๋‹ˆ, ํŠน์ • ํ”„๋ ˆ์ž„์›Œํฌ์— ์ข…์†๋˜์ง€ ์•Š๋„๋ก ์„ค๊ณ„ํ•ด ์–ด๋–ค ํ”„๋ ˆ์ž„์›Œํฌ์™€๋„ ํ†ตํ•ฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹คโ€๋ผ๊ณ  ์„ค๋ช…ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ทธ๋ฆฐ์Šคํƒ€์ธ์€ ํŠนํžˆ ๊ฑฐ๋ฒ„๋„Œ์Šค ๋ชจ๋ธ ๊ตฌ์ถ•์„ ํฌํ•จํ•ด CIO๊ฐ€ โ€˜๋‚ด์ผ์˜ ์ธํ”„๋ผโ€™๋ฅผ ์‹ ์ค‘ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ณ„ํš์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ง๋ถ™์˜€๋‹ค.

๋งค์ถœ ์ฐฝ์ถœ

AI๋Š” ์‚ฐ์—… ์ „๋ฐ˜์˜ ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค ๋ชจ๋ธ์„ ๋ฐ”๊ฟ€ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์ด ํฌ๋‹ค. ์ผ๋ถ€ ๊ธฐ์—…์—๋Š” ์œ„ํ˜‘์ด์ง€๋งŒ, ์–ด๋–ค ๊ธฐ์—…์—๋Š” ๊ธฐํšŒ๋‹ค. CIO๊ฐ€ AI ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ ์ œํ’ˆยท์„œ๋น„์Šค๋ฅผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด๋‚ด๋ฉด IT๋Š” ๋น„์šฉ์„ผํ„ฐ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ๋งค์ถœ ์ฐฝ์ถœ ์กฐ์ง์ด ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.

KPMG์˜ ๋จธํ”„๋Š” โ€œ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„ IT ๋ถ€์„œ๊ฐ€ ์‹œ์žฅ์—์„œ ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“œ๋Š” ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ์ œํ’ˆ์„ ์ง์ ‘ ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ณ , ์ œ์กฐ ๋ฐฉ์‹๊ณผ ์„œ๋น„์Šค ์ œ๊ณต ๋ฐฉ์‹, ๋งค์žฅ์—์„œ ์ œํ’ˆ์„ ํŒ๋งคํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์‹๊นŒ์ง€ ๋ฐ”๊พธ๋Š” ํ๋ฆ„์ด ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚  ๊ฒƒโ€์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค. IT๊ฐ€ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๊ณผ ๋” ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์›Œ์ง€๋ฉด์„œ ์กฐ์ง ๋‚ด ์กด์žฌ๊ฐ๋„ ์ปค์ง„๋‹ค๋Š” ์„ค๋ช…์ด๋‹ค. ๋จธํ”„๋Š” โ€œ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ IT๋Š” ๊ณ ๊ฐ์œผ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ํ•œ ๊ฑธ์Œ ๋–จ์–ด์ ธ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋ถ€์„œ๊ฐ€ ์ œํ’ˆ๊ณผ ์„œ๋น„์Šค๋ฅผ ํŒ” ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์„ ์ง€์›ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. AI ์‹œ๋Œ€์—๋Š” CIO์™€ IT๊ฐ€ ์ œํ’ˆ์„ ๋งŒ๋“ ๋‹ค. ์„œ๋น„์Šค ์ง€ํ–ฅ์—์„œ ์ œํ’ˆ ์ง€ํ–ฅ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐ”๋€๋‹คโ€๋ผ๊ณ  ๊ฐ•์กฐํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

์ด๋Ÿฐ ๋ณ€ํ™”๋Š” ์ด๋ฏธ ์ง„ํ–‰ ์ค‘์ด๋‹ค. ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ „์—ญ์—์„œ 1,380๋งŒ ๋ช…์˜ ํ™˜์ž๋ฅผ ์ง„๋ฃŒํ•˜๋Š” ์ „๊ตญ ๋‹จ์œ„ ์˜์‚ฌ ๊ทธ๋ฃน ๋น„ํˆฌ์ดํ‹ฐ(Vituity)์˜ CIO ์•„๋ฏธ์Šค ๋‚˜์ด๋ฅด๋Š” โ€œ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋‚ด๋ถ€์—์„œ ์ œํ’ˆ์„ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด ๋ณ‘์› ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ๊ณผ ์™ธ๋ถ€ ๊ณ ๊ฐ์—๊ฒŒ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹คโ€๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

๋น„ํˆฌ์ดํ‹ฐ์˜ ์†”๋ฃจ์…˜์€ ์˜์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ํ™˜์ž์™€์˜ ๋Œ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กยท์ „์‚ฌํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ๋“ค์ด๋Š” ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ AI๋กœ ์ค„์ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค. ๋‚˜์ด๋ฅด๋Š” โ€œํ™˜์ž๊ฐ€ ์˜ค๋ฉด ์˜์‚ฌ๋Š” ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ๋Œ€ํ™”ํ•˜๋ฉด ๋œ๋‹ค. ์ปดํ“จํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ฉฐ ํƒ€์ดํ•‘ํ•˜๋Š” ๋Œ€์‹  ํ™˜์ž๋ฅผ ๋ณด๊ณ  ๋“ฃ๋Š”๋‹ค. ์ดํ›„ ์ฐจํŠธ ์ž‘์„ฑ, ์˜๋ฃŒ ์˜์‚ฌ๊ฒฐ์ • ํ”„๋กœ์„ธ์Šค, ํ‡ด์› ์š”์•ฝ๊นŒ์ง€ ๋ฉ€ํ‹ฐ์—์ด์ „ํŠธ AI ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์ด ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด ์ค€๋‹คโ€๋ผ๊ณ  ์„ค๋ช…ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

์ด ๋„๊ตฌ๋Š” ๋งˆ์ดํฌ๋กœ์†Œํ”„ํŠธ์˜ ์• ์ € ํ”Œ๋žซํผ ์œ„์— ๋งž์ถคํ˜•์œผ๋กœ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•œ ์ž์ฒด ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ ์†”๋ฃจ์…˜์ด๋ฉฐ, ํ˜„์žฌ๋Š” ๋…๋ฆฝ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์šด์˜๋˜๋Š” ์Šคํƒ€ํŠธ์—…์œผ๋กœ ๋ถ„์‚ฌํ•ด ์šด์˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค. ๋‚˜์ด๋ฅด๋Š” โ€œ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋งค์ถœ์„ ๋งŒ๋“œ๋Š” ์กฐ์ง์ด ๋๋‹คโ€๋ผ๊ณ  ๊ฐ•์กฐํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
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7 changes to the CIO role in 2026

7 January 2026 at 05:00

Everything is changing, from data pipelines and technology platforms, to vendor selection and employee training โ€” even core business processes โ€” and CIOs are in the middle of it to guide their companies into the future.

In 2024, tech leaders asked themselves if this AI thing even works and how do you do it. Last year, the big question was what the best use cases are for the new technology. This year will be all about scaling up and starting to use AI to fundamentally transform how employees, business units, or even entire companies actually function.

So whatever IT was thought of before, itโ€™s now a driver of restructuring. Here are seven ways the CIO role will change in the next 12 months.

Enough experimenting

The role of the CIO will change for the better in 2026, says Eric Johnson, CIO at incident management company PagerDuty, with a lot of business benefit and opportunity in AI.

โ€œItโ€™s like having a mine of very valuable minerals and gold, and youโ€™re not quite sure how to extract it and get full value out of it,โ€ he says. Now, he and his peers are being asked to do just that: move out of experimentation and into extraction.

โ€œWeโ€™re being asked to take everything weโ€™ve learned over the past couple of years and find meaningful value with AI,โ€ he says.

What makes this extra challenging is the pace of change is so much faster now than before.

โ€œWhat generative AI was 12 months ago is completely different to what it is today,โ€ he says. โ€œAnd the business folks watching that transformation occur are starting to hear of use cases they never heard of months ago.โ€

From IT manager to business strategist

The traditional role of a companyโ€™s IT department has been to provide technology support to other business units.

โ€œYou tell me what the requirements are, and Iโ€™ll build you your thing,โ€ says Marcus Murph, partner and head of technology consulting at KPMG US.

But the role is changing from back-office order taker to full business partner working alongside business leaders to leverage innovation.

โ€œMy instincts tell me that for at least the next decade, weโ€™ll see such drastic change in technology that they wonโ€™t go back to the back office,โ€ he says. โ€œWeโ€™re probably in the most rapid hyper cycle of change at least since the internet or mobile phones, but almost certainly more than that.โ€

Change management

As AI transforms how people do their jobs, CIOs will be expected to step up and help lead the effort.

โ€œA lot of the conversations are about implementing AI solutions, how to make solutions work, and how they add value,โ€ says Ryan Downing, VP and CIO of enterprise business solutions at Principal Financial Group. โ€œBut the reality is with the transformation AI is bringing into the workplace right now, thereโ€™s a fundamental change in how everyone will be working.โ€

This transformation will challenge everyone, he says, in terms of roles, value proposition of whatโ€™s been done for years, and expertise.

โ€œThe technology weโ€™re starting to bring into the workplace is really shaping the future of work, and we need to be agents of change beyond the tech,โ€ he says.

That change management starts within the IT organization itself, adds Matt Kropp, MD and senior partner and CTO at Boston Consulting Group.

โ€œThereโ€™s quite a lot of focus on AI for software development because itโ€™s maybe the most advanced, and the tools have been around for a while,โ€ he says. โ€œThereโ€™s a very clear impact using AI agents for software developers.โ€

The lessons that CIOs learn from managing this transformation can be applied in other business units, too, he says.

โ€œWhat we see happening with AI for software development is a canary in the coal mine,โ€ he adds. And itโ€™s an opportunity to ensure the company is getting the productivity gains itโ€™s looking for, but also to create change management systems that can be used in other parts of the enterprise. And it starts with the CIO.

โ€œYou want the top of the organization saying they expect everyone to use AI because they use it, and can demonstrate how they use it as part of their work,โ€ he says. Leaders need to lead by example that the use of AI is allowed, accepted, and expected.

CIOs and other executives can use AI to create first drafts of memos, organize meeting notes, and help them think through strategy. And any major technology initiative will include a change management component, yet few technologies have had as dramatic an impact on work as AI is having, and is expected to have.

Deploying AI at scale in an enterprise, however, is a very contentious issue, says Ari Lightman, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Companies have spent a lot of time focusing on understanding the customer experience, he says, but few focus on the employee experience.

โ€œWhen you roll out enterprise-wide AI systems, youโ€™re going to have people who are supportive and interested, and people who just want to blow it up,โ€ he says. Without addressing the issues that employees have, AI projects can grind to a halt.

Cleaning up the data

As AI projects scale up, so will their data requirements. Instead of limited, curated data sets, enterprises will need to modernize their data stacks if they havenโ€™t already, and make the data ready and accessible for AI systems while ensuring security and compliance.

โ€œWeโ€™re thinking about data foundations and making sure we have the infrastructure in place so AI is something we can leverage and get value out of,โ€ says Aaron Rucker, VP of data at Warner Music.

The security aspect is particularly important as AI agents gain the ability to autonomously seek out and query data sources. This was much less of a concern with small pilot projects or RAG embedding, where developers carefully curated the data that was used to augment AI prompts. And before gen AI, data scientists, analysts, and data engineers were the ones accessing data, which offered a layer of human control that might diminish or completely vanish in the agentic age. That means the controls will need to move closer to the data itself.

โ€œWith AI, sometimes you want to move fast, but you still want to make sure youโ€™re setting up data sources with proper permissions so someone canโ€™t just type in a chatbot and get all the family jewels,โ€ says Rucker.

Make build vs buy decisions

This year, the build or buy decisions for AI will have dramatically bigger impacts than they did before. In many cases, vendors can build AI systems better, quicker, and cheaper than a company can do it themselves. And if a better option comes along, switching is a lot easier than when youโ€™ve built something internally from scratch. On the other hand, some business processes represent core business value and competitive advantage, says Rucker.

โ€œHR isnโ€™t a competitive advantage for us because Workday is going to be better positioned to build something thatโ€™s compliantโ€ he says. โ€œIt wouldnโ€™t make sense for us to build that.โ€

But then there are areas where Warner Music can gain a strategic advantage, he says, and itโ€™s going to be important to figure out what this advantage is going to be when it comes to AI.

โ€œWe shouldnโ€™t be doing AI for AIโ€™s sake,โ€ says Rucker. โ€œWe should attach it to some business value as a reflection of our company strategy.โ€

If a company uses outside vendors for important business processes, thereโ€™s a risk the vendor will come to understand an industry better than the existing players.

Digitizing a business process creates behavioral capital, network capital, and cognitive capital, says John Sviokla, executive fellow at the Harvard Business School and co-founder of GAI Insights. It unlocks something that used to be exclusively inside the minds of employees.

Companies have already traded their behavioral capital to Google and Facebook, and network capital to Facebook and LinkedIn.

โ€œTrading your cognitive capital for cheap inference or cheap access to technology is a very bad idea,โ€ says Sviokla. Even if the AI company or hyperscaler isnโ€™t currently in a particular line of business, this gives them the starter kit to understand that business. โ€œOnce they see a massive opportunity, they can put billions of dollars behind it,โ€ he says.

Platform selection

As AI moves from one-off POCs and pilot projects to deployments at scale, companies will have to come to grips with choosing an AI platform, or platforms.

โ€œWith things changing so fast, we still donโ€™t know whoโ€™s going to be the leaders in the long term,โ€ says Principalโ€™s Downing. โ€œWeโ€™re going to start making some meaningful bets, but I donโ€™t think the industry is at the point where we pick one and say thatโ€™s going to be it.โ€

The key is to pick platforms that have the ability to scale, but are decoupled, he says, so enterprises can pivot quickly, but still get business value. โ€œRight now, Iโ€™m prioritizing flexibility,โ€ he says.

Bret Greenstein, chief AI officer at management consulting firm West Monroe Partners, recommends CIOs identify aspects of AI that are stable, and those that change rapidly, and make their platform selections accordingly.

โ€œKeep your AI close to the cloud because the cloud is going to be stable,โ€ he says. โ€œBut the AI agent frameworks will change in six months, so build to be agnostic in order to integrate with any agent frameworks.โ€

Progressive CIOs are building the enterprise infrastructure of tomorrow and have to be thoughtful and deliberate, he adds, especially around building governance models.

Revenue generation

AI is poised to massively transform business models across every industry. This is a threat to many companies, but also an opportunity for others. By helping to create new AI-powered products and services, CIOs can make IT a revenue generator instead of just a cost center.

โ€œYouโ€™re going to see this notion of most IT organizations directly building tech products that enable value in the marketplace, and change how you do manufacturing, provide services, and how you sell a product in a store,โ€ says KPMGโ€™s Murph.

That puts IT much closer to the customer than it had been before, raising its profile and significance in the organization, he says.

โ€œIn the past, IT was one level away from the customer,โ€ he says. โ€œThey enabled the technology to help business functions sell products and services. Now with AI, CIOs and IT build the products, because everything is enabled by technology. They go from the notion of being services-oriented to product-oriented.โ€

One CIO already doing this is Amith Nair at Vituity, a national physician group serving 13.8 million patients.

โ€œWeโ€™re building products internally and providing them back to the hospital system, and to external customers,โ€ he says.

For example, doctors spend hours a day transcribing conversations with patients, which is something AI can help with. โ€œWhen a patient comes in, they can just have a conversation,โ€ he says. โ€œInstead of looking at the computer and typing, they look at and listen to the patient. Then all of their charting, medical decision processes, and discharge summaries are developed using a multi-agent AI platform.โ€

The tool was developed in-house, custom-built on top of the Microsoft Azure platform, and is now a startup running on its own, he says.

โ€œWeโ€™ve become a revenue generator,โ€ he says.

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