Meeting the challenges of 2009 requires CIOs to lead their organizations and enterprises through decisions that have no simple answers. CIOs need to lead and have the foresight to look at IT in new ways. They will demonstrate this leadership through four imperatives: • Be decisive in setting priorities on actions that raise enterprise effectiveness, [...]
CIOs continue to invest in technologies beyond the infrastructure core. However, the focus of these investments has shifted from planting emerging technologies to harvesting enterprise investments. This explains the apparent stability in CIO technology priorities shown in Table 1. CIOs expect to: • Invest in business intelligence applications and information consolidation in order to raise [...]
CIOs Plan on Same Budgets as Last Year, but IT Leaders Will Spend Differently in 2009 STAMFORD, Conn., January 14, 2009 — As enterprises face a challenging economic environment, IT spending budgets will be essentially flat with a planned increase of 0.16 percent in 2009, according to results from the 2009 CIO survey by Gartner [...]