Gartners Top 10 Business and IT Priorities

Gartner has published it's yearly list of Top 10 Priorities for both business and IT.

 

Ranking Top 10 Technology Priorities Ranking Business process improvement 1 Business intelligence applications 1 Attracting and retaining new customers 2 Enterprise applications (ERP, CRM and others) 2 Creating new products and services (innovation) 3 Servers and storage technologies 3 Expanding into new markets or geographies 4 Legacy modernization, upgrade or enhancement 4 Reducing enterprise costs 5 Technical infrastructure 5 Improving enterprise workforce effectiveness 6 Security technologies 6 Expanding current customer relationships 7 Networking, voice and data 7 Increasing the use of information and analytics 8 Collaboration technologies 8 Targeting customers and markets more effectively 9 Document management 9 Acquiring new companies and capabilities (mergers and acquisitions) 10 Service-oriented architecture (SOA) and service-oriented business applications (SOBA) 10

 

Source: Gartner EXP (January 2008)

https://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=587309

 

I always find it interesting that the Business list focuses on effectiveness rather than efficiency (which I think is a great thing), how most of the items in the list are focuses on Business Productivity but how few of us relate the business benefits from our solutions back to these priorities.