Indian Chief Information Officers (CIOs) appear to be more progressive as compared with their global counterparts and are looking to ‘make innovation real’ and ‘expand business impact’ for their respective organisations.
A study conducted by IBM based on a survey of 100 Indian CIOs says that 70 per cent of Indian CIOs are integrating business and technology to promote innovation for the entire organisation, as compared to 47 per cent of global CIOs. Almost 64 per cent of Indian CIOs proactively push information technology as an innovation element compared to 55 per cent of global CIOs.
Also, over 70 per cent of Indian CIOs expect to explore newer channels for end-customer interactions and anticipate greater levels of transparency with customers in the next five years. For the Indian CIOs, the top three priority areas for future were business intelligence and analytics, risk mitigation and governance, and virtualisation.