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Nick Kirkland, Gartner vice president |
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No IT Spending Recovery in 2003
Monday, 10 March 2003
Large enterprises will not increase their spending on IT in 2003, according to the latest Gartner survey of over 600 CIOs worldwide.
"Gone are the days of 10 percent per year," says Gartner vice president, Nick Kirkland, speaking at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2003, in Florence, Italy, on Monday.
"It seems CIOs are being told, ‘Give us more with less.'"
The survey, conducted at the end of 2002, shows that cost pressures are still the top business concern for CIOs, as they had been since 2001. But a new concern has appeared: the second most-worrying business trend is data security. In previous years, CIOs ranked this issue fourth. And concern about personal data privacy has appeared in the top 10 for the first time, entering the list at No. 10.
As for technology, CIOs again make security enhancement tools their top technology priority. Climbing the scale are technologies for applications integration (No. 2), enterprise portal deployment (No. 3) and network infrastructure and management tools (No. 4).
Kirkland says the priorities show that CIOs must work with their business colleagues to clarify business and technology trade-offs. The aim must be to:
Cut business costs and enable risk-managed innovation
Guide decisions by demonstrating the business value of IT
Enhance security and integrate applications
To achieve their goals, CIOs need to do six things:
Lead by bridging business and technology
Anticipate by sensing key trends
Strategize by shaping demand and synchronizing IT and business
Organize by creating a leaner IS unit and outsourcing more services
Deliver by providing cost-effective and timely services
Measure by building executive dashboards to let managers know where they stand and why.
CIOs should focus on these six imperatives, Kirkland says. By giving special attention to trade-offs, governance, portfolio management and leadership, they should be able to achieve productivity and growth.
Jonathan Green-Armytage
Gartner Staff
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