Why IT Spending Is All About the Business
Why IT Spending Is All About the Business
IT’s primary objective, as always, is to support the business, but how IT spends its resources is now tightly linked to key business outcomes.
Crucial Link
70% of survey respondents say it is either “very important” or “critical” to link IT investments to key business outcomes.
Communications Gap
Just 47% say their organization is doing a “very good” or “excellent” job of communicating/demonstrating the impact of IT investments upon key business outcomes.
Lean Machine
56% say they’re considering the streamlining of their operational processes to more effectively drive business outcomes through IT investments, and 38% want to increase standardization to do this.
Priority Shifts: Protective Stance
In making tech investment decisions, 75% of survey respondents say their organization is more focused on the improvement of IT security than it was two years ago.
Priority Shifts: Budget-Minded
51% say their company is more focused on managing costs through IT investments than it was two years ago.
Priority Shifts: Safety Strategy
49% say they’re more focused on mitigating risk through IT investments than it was two years ago.
Dominating Agenda
68% say that key business outcomes/goals take a higher priority when making IT investment decisions, compared to just 32% who say tech operational outcomes take a higher priority in making these decisions.
Wheels in Motion, Part I
80% are either currently running, building or planning a cloud/virtualization management initiative, and 75% are doing the same for application performance management.
Wheels in Motion, Part II
78% are either currently running, building or planning a process automation initiative, and 71% are doing the same with efforts to converge data center infrastructure.
Most Challenging Tech Initiatives to Deploy
Security: 44%, IT governance/compliance management: 29%, Migration to IT-as-a-service: 24%
