Take It With You
Strong business information technology (IT) alignment often remains an aspiration rather than a reality for chief information officers (CIOs), according to a recent survey of almost 300 senior IT decision-makers in various industries across Europe.
HP commissioned Datamonitor to conduct the study to determine how aware IT organizations are of the dynamic nature of their business environments. The study shows the goal of improved IT alignment often goes unrealized because it is overshadowed by the need to simply keep the enterprise's existing IT systems operational. The daily pressure to meet changing priorities, manage immediate crises and keep users satisfied consumes the enterprise's limited IT resources. Little is left to fuel the IT improvements that can actually change the business for the better.