The firm’s latest blueprint, Build a Regulatory IT Response Engine, highlights a widening gap between the volume of incoming regulations and the ability of IT teams to execute them effectively. While AI-enabled tools offer potential efficiency gains, they often fail when deployed without a foundation of clear governance and human oversight. Organizations frequently stumble due to inconsistent interpretations of rules across different jurisdictions and a persistent inability to prioritize IT initiatives against broader business goals.

"Regulatory response is becoming too complex to manage through disconnected, manual processes," said Ahmad Jowhar, senior research analyst at Info-Tech Research Group. He emphasizes that IT leaders must transition to repeatable, structured workflows to maintain compliance without sacrificing agility. By standardizing the translation of regulatory obligations into actionable IT controls, firms can shift from reactive firefighting to a proactive, scalable model. The research suggests that aligning compliance roadmaps with resource capacity and business priorities is essential to reducing execution risk and avoiding the duplication of effort that plagues many large-scale organizations.