Every CIO has the deck.
Thirty slides. Three horizons. A maturity model on slide 14, a roadmap on slide 27, swimlanes in tasteful pastels.
By end of Q1, half of it is wrong.
By end of Q2, nobody opens it.
By year-end, it's a reference artifact — cited in steering committees to justify decisions that were actually made for entirely different reasons.
This is not a failure of effort. It's a failure of format.
The annual IT strategy document was designed for a world where technology moved at the pace of capital budgets. That world is gone. AI capabilities shift quarterly. Vendor roadmaps move faster than governance cycles. Business units sign SaaS contracts on Tuesday that invalidate architecture assumptions made on Monday.
The document isn't slow because CIOs are slow. It's slow because the artifact itself is structurally incompatible with the rate of change it's trying to govern.
Strategy has outgrown the document.
What's replacing it in your org?