CIOs say all kinds of things in surveys about what their favorite technology will be for the coming year. But where are they actually spending their money?
On some pretty mundane things, it turns out, but for pretty innovative reasons. Hot technology is great, respondents said, but not as great as using what you already have to best advantage.
That is probably why application integration, not leadership or alignment or even compliance, turned out to be the most critical IT project cited by the 1,270 Baseline readers who responded to our survey.
They said lots of other things, too, about how to handle the other executives at the C-level, how to make sure your technology advances the business instead of following it, and how to measure and prove your own effectiveness.
We took the clearest examples as case studies, profiled the most interesting individuals, and examined in detail each of the five project types readers cited as their biggest-ticket deployments for this year.
Want to know what CIOs’ real agendas are for 2005? Read on.
Lead Story:
Top 5 Projects in 2005 Baseline’s readers say they are getting to the future by building on the past; but it’s not easy.
The Numbers:
Who’s spending what, where?
The People:
Being Top Tech is a tough job; here’s how they do it
The Companies:
Save money; find new revenue. Easy to say, very hard to do.
The Projects:
Top technologies for 2005, and what to do with them.
We want to hear from you. What projects are sucking up the biggest part of your budget? Which are the most critical? Which do you wish you could live without? Let us know.