FutureScape 2027: Three Leadership Decisions That Are Still Open. Here’s How to Use the Time.

If your AI budget grew tomorrow, where would you invest first? Most leaders answer with a platform or a vendor. The IDC FutureScape 2027 webinar argued that the better answer is in people and governance, and that the decision stays open only for a limited time. IDC’s Rick Villars described the open window as the area where leaders “can’t solve everything this year, but making decisions and commitments now will allow you to be ready to really capitalize on this AI first transition in 2029.” This is the second of three posts on the windows that frame IDC FutureScape 2027: The Great Rewrite. The launch blog introduced the Top 10 predictions, and the closing window post covered the cost, model, and software-factory decisions that are nearly made. Here we turn to leadership. The target sets the pace: 60% of enterprises will run a majority of their business processes AI-first by 2029, up from 13% in 2026. IDC defines AI-first as agents becoming the default starting point for how work gets done,…