Weltweite Gartner Umfrage unter mehr als 1500 CIOs zeigt gleichbleibende IT-Ausgaben für 2009

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Creating new products or services (innovation)

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Networking, voice and data communications

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Targeting customers and markets more effectively

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Technical infrastructure

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Managing change initiatives

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Security technologies

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Expanding current customer relationships

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Service-oriented applications and architecture

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Expanding into new markets and geographies

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Document management

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Source: Gartner EXP (January 2009)

The business priority "improving business processes" has been the No. 1 business expectation of IT since its introduction to the CIO Agenda survey in 2005. In 2009, more than 57 per cent of CIOs reported this as one of their top five business expectations. "It's time for CIOs to develop business process improvement capabilities as part of the core of IT," Mr McDonald said. "This will enable them to respond to executive expectations that see business processes as important to business performance, as closely associated with application systems and as a responsibility of the CIO and IT."

CIO Technology Priorities Concentrate on Realising Value from Existing Assets

CIOs continue to invest in technologies beyond the infrastructure core. However, the focus of these investments has shifted from planting emerging technologies to harvesting business 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 organisation visibility and transparency, particularly around sales and operational performance. These investments are expected to pay extra dividends by responding to new regulatory and financial reporting requirements.

·                     Invest in ERP technologies, a focus that reflects ERP's core position in enterprise operations. CIOs also plan simplification measures in 2009 that reduce the number of ERP instances, vendors and software licences. These investments coincide with the priority that CIOs are giving to legacy application modernisation.

·                     Invest in server and storage technologies to meet company wide demand for these services.

"Some critics might say that CIO technology priorities could be more ambitious, but considering that CIOs have modest resources requiring close management, it's clear why they are looking to derive more value from what they have before making significant purchases," Mr McDonald said.

CIOs Must Be Decisive and Resourceful in 2009

Meeting the challenges of 2009 requires CIOs to lead their organisations 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 organisation effectiveness, with a focus on improving business process, using business intelligence to raise visibility, and enhancing workforce effectiveness.

·                     Do the "first things faster," as changing economic conditions render a large project irrelevant. CIOs need to apply a prioritisation process to their schedule and recognise that other important priorities can wait. They need to place greater emphasis on the schedule (when) rather than the priorities (why).

·                     Be resourceful in restructuring IT to raise its productivity and agility, because the business will not reduce its demand for IT just because CIOs have fewer resources.

·                     Modernise the technical infrastructure, as new technologies offer lower cost, use less energy, deliver better performance and provide greater capacity; the business will need all of these in the immediate future.

"These imperatives form the basis for the CIO agenda and its focus on making the organisation more effective," Mr McDonald said. "Every CIO will start at a different place, facing unique challenges and setting his or her own agenda to marshal the resources needed to make the right decisions and deliver results across the organisation."

This year's survey collected data in the midst of the economic changes in the fourth quarter of 2008. As such, it provides a snapshot of CIO plans, priorities and budgets for 2009 as they stood at the end of the fourth quarter of 2009. They represent Gartner's best current indication of CIO plans at this time. Given the volatility of current markets, Gartner EXP plans to conduct a follow-up survey in late first quarter or early second quarter of 2009 as enterprises establish new guidance on their 2009 budgets.

Additional comments from Mr McDonald regarding the 2009 CIO Agenda survey are available on the Gartner YouTube channel at http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=5E69WhGwOA0, as well as on Mr. McDonald’s blog on the Gartner Blog Network at http://blogs.gartner.com/mark_mcdonald/.

About Gartner EXP

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