AI INFRASTRUCTURE
Q. WHAT ECOSYSTEM PARTNERSHIPS ARE ESSENTIAL FOR COMPANIES WITHOUT IN-HOUSE AI EXPERTISE? Strategic ecosystem partnerships are essential for organisations pursuing AI at scale and the talent dimension is particularly acute.
CGI’ s 2025 Voice of Our Clients research reveals that 69 % of clients continue to have difficulty hiring IT talent – and the AI skills gap is even more severe.
Organisations are competing for a limited pool of AI specialists at a time when demand far outstrips supply across every industry sector. But it’ s not just about finding Gen AI and agentic model engineers, data scientists and data engineers with the right technical credentials. The real challenge – and what separates successful AI initiatives from failed experiments – is finding professionals who combine deep and applied AI expertise with genuine industry knowledge.
These are people who understand the operational realities of your business, who can walk a factory floor and identify where computer vision could catch quality defects – or spend time in a call center – and recognise where natural language processing could
210 January 2026