CIO Top Priorities for 2008

Every year Gartner Executive Programs (EXP) surveys CIOs for their top business and technology priorities for the coming year. According to the 1500 CIOs who participated in the survey, this year's top priorities are:

Top 10 Business Priorities	Ranking	Top 10 Technology Priorities	Ranking
Business process improvement	1	Business intelligence applications	1
Attracting and retaining new customers	2	Enterprise applications (ERP, CRM and others)	2
Creating new products and services (innovation)	3	Servers and storage technologies	3
Expanding into new markets or geographies	4	Legacy modernization, upgrade or enhancement	4
Reducing enterprise costs	5	Technical infrastructure	5
Improving enterprise workforce effectiveness	6	Security technologies	6
Expanding current customer relationships	7	Networking, voice and data	7
Increasing the use of information and analytics	8	Collaboration technologies	8
Targeting customers and markets more effectively	9	Document management	9
Acquiring new companies and capabilities (mergers and acquisitions)	10	Service-oriented architecture (SOA) and service-oriented business applications (SOBA)	10

source: Gartner, Inc.

The conclusion I draw from the survey results is very clear: if you want to make progress against the top CIO priorities, business process automation with a solution like Compiere Professional Edition is essential.

You can read the survey results announcement at gartner.com