[AISWorld] SIM IT Trends Study Finds A Major Shift in the Focus of IT Executives

[Kappelman, Leon]

Senior IT leadership is focusing its attention and resources on being more pragmatic, holistic, and customer-focused: A very important and positive change that bodes well for the whole economy.
Now in its 36th year, the Society for Information Management (SIM) IT Trends Study takes the pulse of the IT industry by polling SIM members.  This year's study received complete responses from 1,218 members, in 785 organizations, including 486 CIOs.  Total revenues of the 785 are nearly $5 trillion and their 2015 IT spending about $250 billion.
An academic-practitioner collaboration since its inception in 1980, the study produces an unbiased report about IT leadership and practices by delving into important IT topics including priorities, budgets, salaries, skills, headcounts, performance measurement, and how IT executives spend their time.
The 2016 SIM IT Trends Study Comprehensive Report and SIMposium keynote slidedeck are available as free downloads to SIM members at the bottom of the IT Trends Study homepage at http://www.simnet.org/?ITTrendsStudy (http://simnet.org login required).  The slidedeck from the IT Trends SIMposium breakout session is a free download to all at http://www.simnet.org/?ITTrendsStudy.
The members of the IT Trends Study Team:
Barbara Stewart, Celanese
Bill Peterson, LiquidHub
Ephraim McLean, Georgia State University
Leon Kappelman, University of North Texas, Primary Investigator
Mark Snyder, Infor
Quynh Nguyen, University of North Texas
Russell Torres, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor
Vess Johnson, University of the Incarnate Word


"Corrupt politicians make the remaining ten percent look bad." ― Henry Kissinger
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Leon A. Kappelman, Ph.D.
  Professor of Information Systems<http://www.cob.unt.edu/profiles/112>
  Director Emeritus, Information Systems Research Center
  Fellow, Texas Center for Digital Knowledge
    College of Business, University of North Texas
    Voice: 940-565-4698   Email: kapp at unt.edu<mailto:kapp at unt.edu>
  Primary Investigator, SIM's Annual IT Trends Study<http://www.simnet.org/?ITTrendsStudy>
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