IT spending in a downturn: broadening sourcing options, rather than radical cuts
A few weeks back I
highlighted that we'd just started running the first in a series of short polls in conjunction with
CIO UK (part of the international network of CIO magazines) - with a poll focused on how CIOs expect their spending to change in 2009, given the current economic climate.
The first poll threw up some really good insights, which corroborated what I'd heard in a number of other CIO interviews I'd just completed (at the
Nordic CIO Summit I chaired at the end of November).
We take the output from each poll we run, and write an exclusive piece for CIO UK - which is then used as the kick-off point for some further CIO debate that's published online.
Here's the first article. The headline: on balance, UK CIOs appear to be expecting IT budgets to dip marginally overall, but key projects will still progress (albeit in more bite-sized chunks). Fixed IT costs / IT infrastructure budgets will be managed very tightly - but in a way, this is "business as usual" these days. The health warning: with the economic / political situation changing almost daily, the analysis and assumptions could well be out of date by the time you read the article!
The next poll is already
live on our website: it's on the topic of collaboration and social software. Are companies doing more than paying lip-service to collaboration, and what do people think about social software's value? With our short poll we hope to be able to report some more interesting insights for CIO UK.
If you're a CIO or IT Director - or you know someone who is - please take 2 minutes to provide your input (or send your contacts the
link)! We hope to be publishing our CIO UK Debate piece on this topic early in the New Year.
Labels: CIO, collaboration, MWD, open source, outsourcing, poll, social software
