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Follow Us“Insightful visionary and able pragmatist”, thats
how the IBM's CIO Study 2009 titled “The new voice of the
CIO” defines the Indian CIO.
Although the top visionary plans of India CIOs are almost similar to
the global ones, the top most being Business Intelligence and Analytics
and risk managent and compliance, there are some areas where Indian
CIOs are clearly ahead. Be it innovation in business or Green IT,
Indian CIOs are atleast showing more awareness than their global
counterparts. While 47% of Indian CIOs think that Orchestration of
Innovation Process is key to driving organizational change, only 40% of
the global CIOs seem to think so.
The other important aspect that highlights this difference is Green
IT. According to the report 59% of the Indian CIO's surveyed
ranked Green IT very high as a visionary plan. The corresponding figure
for their global counterparts hovered around 43%. While it is
a bit of a dampener that Green is still figuring in the visionary
bracket only, the fact that it is finally appearing as a quantitative
element on the CIOs agenda is something to rejoice. And of course there
is comfort in the realization that global CIOs have still not
dipped their hats as much in green as the Indian ones have. Again, the
43% of Indian CIOs believe in collecting innovative ideas from across
the organization very seriously, but only 34% of the global CIOs feel
this way.
The study also declares Indian CIOs to be relentless cost cutters. As
per the report Indian CIO aims for completely standardized, low-cost
business processes, foresees a centralized infrastructure and focuses
relentlessly on taking costs out of ongoing technology environment.
According to the report, Indian CIOs spend close to 13% of their time
trying to figure out cost cutting measures. That certainly sounds like
music amid slowdown times! Also around 60% of Indian CIOs envision
green IT to be a “lever” for enhanced
competitiveness. The parallel global figure hovers between 30-40%.
Seems like Indian CIOs are finally gaining ground!
Findings About Indian CIOs
- Are ‘Able
Pragmatists’ who enable corporate vision - Three-fourth (76%) of both
global as well as Indian CIOs foresee a
strongly centralized infrastructure over the next five years. - 76% CIOs plan to raise
emphasis on Risk Management & Compliance
- Are managing change
(71%),but CEOs have higher expectation - 44% CIOs are creating IT
‘CoE’s to a substantial extent - 59% of CIOs think Green IT
is important for competitiveness - Need to more proactively
transform data into insights - 70% are integrating
business and technology to promote innovation for the entire
organization as compared to 47% of global CIOs. - 64% proactively
push IT as an innovation element compared to 55% of global CIOs. - 64% anticipate
standardized and low-cost business processes to be a reality within
their organization. Repeatability and simplicity seem to be more
important than the unique character of the process itself. Only 53%
global CIOs share this view. - Over 70% expect to
explore newer channels for end-customer interactions and anticipate
greater levels of integration and transparency with customers in the
next five years. Global responses rank between 56-64%. - One key area where Global
CIOs rank ahead of Indian CIOs is around proactively crafting data into
actionable information. However, this is also an area which both global
and Indian CIOs have ranked as #1 for their visionary plans for future. - 56% decide on business
strategy as a member of the senior management team. Globally, this
number is only 33%. - The starkest contrast
between what Global CIOs and Indian CIOs pointed out among their top
most challenges for future was: Budgets! 45% of Global CIOs
saw this as a challenge vs only 28% of Indian CIOs. Clearly, IT budgets
aren’t something that is bothering Indian CIOs as much as
their global peers.
Link
to IBM CIO Study – India Point of View