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54% -- share of ceos hiring for new ai roles for CEOs (IBM CEO Study) (2026)
54% of CEOs are already hiring for AI roles that did not exist a year ago, according to the IBM CEO Study.
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54%
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2026
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20
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45
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95
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IBM
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https://www.arkeoai.com/ai-in-business/ai-implementation-90-day-plan ↗
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AI Implementation 90-Day Plan: One Workflow in Production by Day 90
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Last updated: June 2026
By David Brennan · Arkeo AI · Building and Deploying Custom AI agents since 2023
The wrong question at day zero of an AI implementation is: how many use cases should we explore?
The right question is: which one workflow can we have in production by day 90, with a nam…
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CEOs (IBM CEO Study): 54% share of ceos hiring for new ai roles. Source: IBM (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/ibm-ceo-study-hiring-ai-roles
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/ibm-ceo-study-hiring-ai-roles" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>54%</strong> -- share of ceos hiring for new ai roles for CEOs (IBM CEO Study)<br><small>Source: IBM (2026) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/ibm-ceo-study-hiring-ai-roles" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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