Gartner Executive Program Survey Of More Than 2,000 CIOs Shows Digital Technologies Are Top Priorities In 2013
Digital technologies dominate CIO technology priorities for 2013. The top 10 global technology priorities revealed by the survey reflect a greater emphasis on externally oriented digital technologies, as opposed to traditional IT/operationally oriented systems (see Table 1).
Table 1
| Top 10 CIO Business and Technology Priorities in 2013 | |||||||||
| Top 10 Business Priorities | Ranking | Top 10 Technology Priorities | Ranking | ||||||
| Increasing enterprise growth | 1 | Analytics and business intelligence | 1 | ||||||
| Delivering operational results | 2 | Mobile technologies | 2 | ||||||
| Reducing enterprise costs | 3 | Cloud computing (SaaS, IaaS, PaaS) | 3 | ||||||
| Attracting and retaining new customers | 4 | Collaboration technologies (workflow) | 4 | ||||||
| Improving IT applications and infrastructure | 5 | Legacy modernization | 5 | ||||||
| Creating new products and services (innovation) | 6 | IT management | 6 | ||||||
| Improving efficiency | 7 | CRM | 7 | ||||||
| Attracting and retaining the workforce | 8 | Virtualization | 8 | ||||||
| Implementing analytics and big data | 9 | Security | 9 | ||||||
| Expanding into new markets and geographies | 10 | ERP Applications | 10 | ||||||
SaaS = software as a service; IaaS = infrastructure as a service; PaaS = platform as a serviceSource: Gartner Executive Programs (January 2013)
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