Society for Information Management Members Say IT is Shifting
October 21, 2011 12:00 AM
Primary Spending Categories
Business intelligence is the number one spending category, followed by cloud computing and enterprise resource planning. Next were two categories new to the top five, mobile and wireless applications along with customer relationship management, respectively.
CTOs Not as Involved in Decision-Making
The survey found that 49 percent of CIOs responding to the survey report to their CFO; 32 percent to the CEO.
IT Turnover is Low
Despite a slight spike in 2008, the survey shows IT departments maintaining a low turnover rate in the last three years. The average CIO has worked at the same company for 4.45 years, according to the survey.
Outsourcing a Growth Trend
Outsourcing growth is projected in building new systems applications, increasing from 25 percent onshore and 20 percent offshore outsourcing allocation in 2011 to 27 percent onshore and 21 percent offshore in 2012.
Cloud is Still Emerging
IT is No Longer First to Go
Budgets, Hiring in IT is Growing
Projected 2012 spending levels are set to increase overall, as 85 percent of the 275 organizations participating reported that IT budgets will stay the same or increase in 2012, and 94 percent of respondents said staff salaries will stay the same or increase in 2012.
IT-Business Alignment is Key
IT and business alignment was the number one IT concern in this year's survey, followed by business agility and speed to market, with business process management and reengineering coming in third.