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The Society for Information Management (SIM) surveyed CIOs and IT executive leaders about their top priorities for 2010, based on a list of 20 IT and business concerns.
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- 1. The sour economy will still play a role in IT decision-making in 2010. The top priority for CIOs: business productivity and cost reduction.
- 2. Even as organizations continue to look for cuts, they need to keep supporting the business. The second priority cited was IT and business alignment.
- 3. As CIOs look across the business in anticipation of economic recovery, business agility and speed to market ranked as the third priority.
- 4. Organizations need to make reduced budgets work, so business process reengineering made it to number four.
- 5. Sensing a familiar theme? The fifth ranked priority was IT cost reduction.
- 6. CIOs voted IT reliability and efficiency as the sixth highest priority.
- 7. Just focusing on tactical and operational concerns will hobble IT departments as they try to keep up with business needs. Thus CIOs voted IT strategic planning number seven.
- 8. IT doesn't have to be just a cost center. CIOs say coming up with revenue-generating IT innovations is their number eight top priority.
- 9. Security breaches can put a major dent in the bottom line, and also in the company's brand. CIOs say security and privacy concerns are their ninth most important priority.
- 10. Where does the CIO stand within the grand scheme of the organization? Many executives wonder, placing the CIO leadership role in the number 10 slot.
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