India, Sept. 8 -- The tech industry has seen its share of bubble, bust and boom cycles. And if one wants to place AI in that line, it is a disruption like no other, rattling the entire organisational stakeholder ecosystem. No one wants to be a laggard or an also-ran in the AI race. But it's not a sprint either; it's a marathon right now without a finish line. Everyone is running, and no one is sure about what really makes for AI success. That's one overarching question, but there are no clear answers right now.

It is against this backdrop that the Lenovo CIO Playbook 2026 offers another perspective on where enterprise AI is headed. Right now, one metric seems to be the oft-repeated 'pilots or PoCs to production' narrative. But, in a sens...