Digital technologies 'top priority' for 2013, say CIOs

Digital technologies 'top priority' for 2013, say CIOs

According to new research, organisations across the globe are not realizing the full business potential of technology. The research by information technology research and advisory firm Gartner found that companies across the world are making use of just 43 per cent of technology’s business potential, meaning that, in an increasingly competitive corporate world, they could be falling behind.

The Gartner Executive Programs report, entitled ‘Hunting and Harvesting in a Digital World: The 2013 CIO Agenda,’ surveyed more than 2,000 CIOs across the last three months of 2012. The report – classed as the most in-depth examination of CIO strategies and business priorities in the world – found that CIOs in general believed that their firms needed to make more of digital technology.

Digital technologies such as cloud-based technology, mobile and social networking, have come of age over the last 18 months, and CIOs now have little choice but to raise the potential of technology within their business.

Mark McDonald, group vice president and Gartner Fellow, said: “Digital technologies provide a platform to achieve results, but only if Zeus adopt new roles and behaviours to find digital value. CIOs require a new agenda that incorporates hunting for new digital innovations and opportunities, and harvesting value from products, services and operations.

"In a world of change, it is concerning that around half of CIOs surveyed do not see IT's enterprise role changing over the next three years. IT needs new tools if it hopes to hunt for technology-intensive innovation and harvest raised business performance from transformed IT infrastructure, operations and applications,” Mr McDonald went on to say.

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