AI Value for IT · The CIO track

Your teams save time with AI.
Let's make it show in your budget.

Every IT department has adopted AI, very few capture its value. We transform your IT operating model (its economics, its organisation, its contracts) so that AI gains fund your projects instead of weighing down your Run.

CEOs CIOs CFOs
Fixed price · 8 weeks
The AI Value for IT framing
W1-2
Inventory and baseline
Ongoing initiatives, baseline measurement, positioning against the Niji Barometer
W3-5
Ambition
Target per workstream, gain scenarios, allocation key
W6-8
Plan and pilots
Costed 3-year plan, business case, two pilots ready (Build and Run)
98%
Expect more
from tech in 2026
53%
Flat budget
or shrinking
75%
Produce more
with their AI gains, instead of capturing them
19%
Go all the way
AI deployed across the whole chain

Sources: Niji Barometer 2026 (100+ organisations), BCG 2026.

The diagnosis

AI creates more demand
than it frees up capacity

Without a change of model, every AI gain is absorbed before it reaches the P&L. The problem is not technological: it is economic and organisational.

Gains dissolve

Time saved is neither measured nor reallocated. It is used to produce more, and every extra application weighs down the Run.

Some of your suppliers keep the gains

On time-and-materials, they produce faster and bill the same. They commit to 6 to 15% gains, while clients expect 30 to 40%.

The bottleneck moves

Coding speeds up, while review, testing and architecture saturate. Without an end-to-end redesign, debt piles up.

The model has stayed the same

Roles, pyramid, contracts and governance are still designed for scarce capacity. One IT department in four has a complete AI framework, 23% anticipate the impact on jobs.

What is at stake in euros

For a €100M IT department:
€9 to 14M a year captured with method

Orders of magnitude based on more than ten Niji engagements carried out in 2026, to be instantiated on your data. The gap, €5 to 7M a year, is the cost of waiting one year.

The value lies in the allocation rule, which only executive management can set:

Returned to margin
Lower cost of tech, visible on the P&L
Business projects
More projects delivered, shorter time-to-market
Resilience
Lower Run and debt, AI Act and DORA compliance
Our approach

Seven workstreams, three stages,
one value office

Each stage funds and secures the next. Quick wins in 2027 fund what follows: the transformation moves step by step, with no big bang and no sunk-cost bet.

01 · StartMeasure and fund
C1
Measuring and redistributing gains

A baseline before any commitment, gains recognised by Finance, an allocation key.

AI Value for IT core
C2
Refactoring IT systems and SaaS

Prioritised by value rather than by debt. SaaS doctrine: keep, renegotiate, replace.

Delivered by AI Factory →
02 · AccelerateSecure and equip
C3
AI trust framework, DORA-reinforced

A fast lane, graduated agent autonomy, AI suppliers on the register.

With Data & Trust →
C4
Agentic platform

A single foundation: catalogue, orchestration, memory, AI FinOps, observability.

Delivered by AI Agentic →
03 · IndustrialiseProduce differently
C5
Operating model and AI-native factory

A redesigned Build, an agent-supervised Run, business teams as co-producers. A pilot from the start.

AI Factory · AI Agentic →
C6
Workforce planning and external sourcing

Target jobs and reskilling. Suppliers who finally share AI gains, moving from time-and-materials to outcomes.

AI Value for IT core
C7 · Orchestrate : An IT · Finance · HR value office makes sure the gains reach the P&L.AI Value for IT core
AI Value for IT core : what we carry ourselvesThe other workstreams are delivered with the AI-Driven pillars.
Your questions

What we hear most often

We already have an AI plan.

Good. We review it in 4 weeks and measure what it actually captures: most plans tool up individual steps, few redesign the economics of IT.

We have no budget.

The framing is fixed-price. After that, quick wins (supplier renewals, agentic Run) fund the rest from 2028.

Our teams already use AI.

Who measures the gains, and where did they go? Adopting is not enough to transform: only 19% deploy AI across the whole chain.

This is an IT topic.

Measurement, the allocation key and the transformation mandate belong to the CEO. That is why IT alone cannot get there.

First step · fixed price · 8 weeks

A costed 2027 plan
and two pilots ready to launch

We start from what you already have: copilots, modernisation programmes, AI charter, contracts. Nothing is redone, everything is connected and measured.

Weeks 1-2
Inventory and baseline

Ongoing initiatives across the seven workstreams. Baseline measurement. Positioning against the 100+ organisations of the Niji Barometer.

Weeks 3-5
Ambition

Target per workstream, gain scenarios, CEO, Finance and CIO trade-offs on the allocation key.

Weeks 6-8
Plan and pilots

Costed 3-year plan, business case, governance. Two flagship pilots ready: one Build, one Run.

8
weeks, fixed price
100+
benchmark organisations
2
pilots ready, Build and Run
0
delivery commitment
Extended CIO version
Why 8 weeks rather than 2 to 6?

The AI Strategy & Change framing prioritises your use cases and costs their ROI. Its CIO version goes further and adds three topics only an IT department can carry with its executive management: measuring and redistributing gains, external sourcing and workforce planning, the value office.

See the AI Strategy & Change framing →

Already have an AI plan for your IT department? A 4-week review of your existing plan : we test it against the panel and measure what it actually captures.

They did it with Niji

A method already at work

Niji clients · to date
Development and testing factories

Transformation of our clients' development and testing factories, using the method described here.

900+
Employees transformed at our clients
AI Value for IT
Retail
French multinational

From vibe coding to industrialisation: from 3 pilot squads to 35 AI squads, with a proprietary Niji runbook.

×12
AI squads in 6 months
AI Factory
Tourism
International tour operator

Modernisation of critical applications by AI agents: 200 days instead of 1,000.

÷5
Modernisation workload
AI Factory
Our positioning

A plan measured on the P&L,
delivery committed to outcomes

Niji AI Value for ITLarge consultanciesIT services firms
Starting pointValue on the P&L, measured before actingStrategy, rarely measuredCapacity to sell
External sourcingShared AI gains, move to outcomesOut of scopeTime-and-materials maintained
ExecutionAI-native squads, end-to-end commitmentHanded to othersTime-and-materials
Proof900+ employees transformed at our clientsBenchmarksProject references
What each leader gains

A transformation steered by the CEO,
carried by the CIO

For the CEO
  • AI gains costed and recognised on the P&L
  • Three trade-offs a year, no more
  • An IT department that accelerates all business AI
For the CIO
  • Capacity freed up for business demand
  • A favourable balance of power with suppliers
  • An organisation and roles ready for AI
For the CFO
  • A baseline before any commitment
  • A short, assumed J-curve
  • Contracted gains, therefore certain
Combine the offers

AI Value for IT is delivered
with the AI-Driven pillars

Your contacts
Olivier Morbe
Olivier Morbe
Transformation Director · CIO
Karen Tetelbom
Karen Tetelbom
Digital, Technology & Performance Transformation Director
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