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  • 74% believe better prioritization of IT spending based on business needs to be a critical IT management goal

  • primary drivers for alignment is a desire to avoid spending that yields a low ROI, and the need to ensure fulfillment of business-side demand

  • U.S. IT executives more likely to be dissatisfied with their organizations' performance in improving service to end users, controlling costs, and other goals than their counterparts overseas

  • 53% claim biggest barrier to improved alignment is shortfalls in staff skills

  • 40% in UK and Germany see skills as the primary obstacle, while 37% indicate inadequate technology integration

  • 67% indicate the number one success factor in IT-business alignment is standardization of policies and procedures

  • Australian and Japanese respondents specifically cite best practices frameworks such as ITIL as the top reason why they have been able to achieve their goals, even though only 55% of them have adopted, or are planning to adopt, ITIL in the next 12 months as opposed to 71% of respondents in the UK and Germany and 50% in the U.S

  • UK and Germany respondents are significantly more likely than those in other regions to report their companies have deployed a configuration management database (CMDB)


    An executive summary of the survey results is available at http://ca.com/files/WhitePapers/ca_cio2c io_v2exec_summary.pdf.

       
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