Cloud Computing as Top Technology Priority for CIOs in 2011

The worldwide CIO survey was conducted by Gartner EXP from September to December 2010 and represents CIO budget plans reported at that time. The survey includes responses from 2,014 CIOs representing over $160 billion in corporate and public-sector IT spending across 50 countries and 38 industries.
A ranking of business strategies reported by CIOs (see Table 1) indicates that growth is a core expectation for 2011 and beyond. The move to growth appears to be more of a change in emphasis than a restructuring of business strategies and business expectations for IT, as prior top concerns for reducing enterprise costs and improving business processes remain important.
Table 1Top 10 Business and Technology Priorities in 2011

Top 10 Business Priorities	Ranking	Top 10 Technology Priorities	Ranking
Increasing enterprise growth	1	Cloud computing	1
Attracting and retaining new customers	2	Virtualization	2
Reducing enterprise costs	3	Mobile technologies	3
Creating new products and services (innovation)	4	IT management	4
Improving business processes	5	Business intelligence	5
Implementing and updating business applications	6	Networking, voice and data communications	6
Improving technical infrastructure	7	Enterprise applications	7
Improving enterprise efficiency	8	Collaboration technologies	8
Improve operations	9	Infrastructure	9
Improving business continuity, risk and security	10	Web 2.0	10

Source: Gartner EXP (January 2011)

 

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