The Top Business Issues facing CIOs / IT Directors - Results

The Top Business Issues facing CIOs / IT Directors – Results

Back in January, in collaboration with Chase Zander, I started a process of consulting with senior IT managers to develop a list of the top business issues that they faced. This exercise was intended to shape the content of a IT Director Forum that we were planning. This will now be happening on 26th March in Birmingham (for further information see this post).

The Top Business Issues faced by CIOs / IT Directors

Back then, I promised to share some of the findings from this study. These are summarised in the above diagram. The input was based on public comments made by a selection of senior people on the CIO group of LinkedIn.com, plus e-mails sent to me on the topic and feedback received by Chase Zander…

The Top Business Issues faced by CIOs / IT Directors

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A textual version of the data appeas below (sample size ~60):

	Issue	% of Votes

	IT / Business Alignment	27%
	Cost-saving	13%
	Managing change	8%
	Status of the IT Director	8%
	Legacy Systems	5%
	Customer focus	5%
	Enterprise Architecture	5%
	Business Intelligence	5%
	Avoiding the latest and greatest	3%
	Cloud Computing	3%
	Only one response	17%

	Total	100%

I would like to thank all of the IT professionals who contributed to this survey.

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