2016 Survey Roundup: Trends in IT

Michael R. Wood is a Business Process Improvement & IT Strategist Independent Consultant. He is creator of the business process-improvement methodology called HELIX and founder of The Natural Intelligence Group, a strategy, process improvement and technology consulting company. He is also a CPA, has served as an Adjunct Professor in Pepperdine's Management MBA program, an Associate Professor at California Lutheran University, and on the boards of numerous professional organizations. Mr. Wood is a sought after presenter of HELIX workshops and seminars in both the U.S. and Europe.

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Can you believe that more than a year has passed since the last survey roundup? Since the last installment of this annual recap of what IT things are trending and where those trends are likely to be going, much has been happening. This installment, the roundup will focus on the following:

• CIOs
• IT salaries
• IT spending
• IT security

So sit back and get an update without having to do the digging…

CIOs
In 2015, Enterprise Alignment seemed to take center stage for CIOs with 68% of those surveyed in CIO.com’s “2015 State of the CIO” survey, reporting to have mutually shared and measurable goals with their C-level executive peers. Yet the IDC survey for 2015 indicated that 54% of line-of-business leaders surveyed see IT as an obstacle and impediment. Clearly in 2015, many a CIO does not share their line-of-business (LOB) peers perception as to how well they are aligned to the goals and objectives of the enterprise.

So what about 2016? According to IDC’s latest survey, CIOs have made some headway with their LOB peers with over 40% considering CIOs to be “Innovation Officer responsible for leading the transformation into the digital world.”

In some respects, the job of the CIO has grown in great complexity as they find themselves having to migrate away from premised-based closed systems to those that embrace cloud …

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