The Agentic Gap: Vendors Sprint, Enterprises Crawl
About this episode
The episode discusses the impact of geopolitical events on IT budgets and spending sentiment among CIOs.
Geopolitical dislocations are ripping through the stock market and are filtering down to IT budgets in the form of increased uncertainty. It seems that every quarter of budget optimism is followed with some external event that causes organizations to tighten their belts. Specifically, we’ve seen the increased momentum in January CIO sentiment on spending, pull back as war, oil prices, the threat of inflation and even the prospect of Fed tightening now loom larger. While big tech players conti...
Topics covered
- geopolitical dislocations
- IT budgets
- CIO sentiment
- economic uncertainty
Keywords
- stock market
- budget optimism
- war
- oil prices
- inflation
- Fed tightening
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