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CIOs as Strategists
Gartner Inc. recently surveyed 1,400 CIOs and asked them to rate their priorities for 2007 on a scale from 1 to 10.
| CIO priority |
2005 |
2006 |
2007 |
3-year
change |
| Improving business processes |
1 |
1 |
1 |
↔ |
Controlling enterprise-wide
operating costs |
3 |
2 |
2 |
↔ |
Attracting, retaining and growing
customer relationships |
* |
3 |
3 |
↔ |
Improving the effectiveness of
the enterprise workforce |
* |
* |
4 |
|
| Need for revenue growth |
6 |
8 |
5 |
∧ |
Improving enterprise competitiveness
(bottom-line profitability) |
* |
5 |
6 |
∨ |
Expanding use of information/
intelligence in products and services |
7 |
6 |
7 |
∨ |
Deploying new business capabilities
to meet strategic goals |
* |
* |
8 |
|
Entering new markets, new products
or new services |
* |
* |
9 |
|
Faster innovation (shorter product/
service lifecycles) |
10 |
9 |
10 |
∨ |
N=1,400; *Indicates a new question.
Source: "Creating Enterprise Leverage: The 2007 CIO Agenda," Gartner Inc., 2007
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