Webinar rewind: 'Next Year's AI' and more 2025 industrial technology insights The Gartner findings were unveiled at its IT Symposium/Xpo last month. That survey gathered data from 3,186 CIOs and technology executives (including 1,376 CIOs in the EMEA, Europe, the Middle East and Africa) in 88 countries and all major industries. Insights from 1,126 executive leaders outside of IT supplemented the survey, Gartner said in a release. The Gartner findings could be viewed another way. Held up against a 3-year-old McKinsey report that pegged the digitalization success rate at 31%, the Gartner findings that see about a 50% increase in success can be interpreted as sizable progress in manufacturing technology transformations.