By the Numbers: How CIOs View Key IT Issues

By CIOinsight | Posted 10-16-2007

By the Numbers: How CIOs View Key IT Issues

Top IT Management Professional Concerns

1	Attracting, developing, and retaining IT professionals
2	IT and business alignment
3	Build business skills in IT
4	Reduce the cost of doing business
5	Improve IT quality
6	Security and privacy
7	Manage change
8	IT strategic planning
9	Making better use of information
10	Evolving CIO leadership role

What's Driving IT Hiring?

1	Business Growth
2	Replacement of employees who have left
3	Customer support
4	ERP installations
5	Regulatory compliance

How CIOs Spend Their Time

23%	Relationship management with business
16%	Strategy
13%	Relationship management with IT
9%	IT governance
8%	Architecture
8%	Operations
7%	Non-IT
6%	Software development
3%	Other

Source: Society For Information Management

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