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.
A textual version of the data appeas below (sample size ~60):
| Issue | % of Votes | ||
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| 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% | ||
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| Total | 100% | ||
I would like to thank all of the IT professionals who contributed to this survey.
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