Since 1980, the Society for Information Management (SIM), in a joint effort with different academic leaders, has conducted an annual survey of the key issues facing IT executives in the United States. In 2010 the results of the Society for Information Management and the Dutch survey results on Business & IT Trends (since 1994) were combined providing a global benchmark (other groups were engaged to collect data from Asia, and Latin America). In addition to providing a snapshot of the important IT technical and managerial issues of the day and a benchmark of the different geographies, this annual report facilitates the identification of significant trends by comparing survey data based on a similar sample from previous years. The 2012 survey, conducted in the summer of 2012, focused on three important areas:
- Management concerns
- Application and technology investments (IT Trends)
- Organizational issues (IT budgets, IT staff salaries, CIO roles, IT organization structure)
Participants were asked to rate the importance of 39 managerial concerns, 51 application and technology opportunities, and 18 organizational issues.
The recognition of the global reach of IT, especially in light of the impact of both the European and global economic crisis, has amplified the necessity to obtain responses from organizations around the globe to understand similarities and difference across geographies. Hence, this year the same survey was conducted in five major geographies, namely, U.S., Europe, Asia, Australia and Latin America. The detailed results from the U.S. appeared in MISQE in December 2012; while the complete global analysis will be in JIT by the 2nd Quarter of 2013.
This paper focuses on the major insights gained from this survey in Europe 2012-2013, and compares the results to the results from the U.S. It is based on IT executives that are members of CIONET Europe and Business & IT Trends Institute. This paper is based on the responses from IT executives representing 306 Western European organizations contributing to the Strategic Information Management survey .
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