SIM Study: Aligning IT and Business Strategies Continues to be Top Concern for IT Executives

DALLAS – CEOs, CIOs, and other top enterprise managers are placing an increased emphasis on security technologies, business process management (BPM), and business intelligence, but aligning IT and business strategies remains their top concern. That’s according to a survey commissioned by the Society for Information Management (SIM, www.simnet.org). SIM’s annual survey, which included responses from senior IT leaders drawn from the association’s membership base, showed that web services ranks at the top when it comes to applications and technologies of importance to IT executives. It was followed by business intelligence resources, security technologies, business process management, customer portals, and applications and system integration.
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SIM – Chicago Chapter (One of Our Own)
Dr. Gezinus Hidding

Dr. Hidding, an associate professor at Loyola University, Chicago was recently featured in the Wall Street Journal in a jointly written article titled “The IT Platform Principle: The First Shall not be Last”. Congratulations to Dr. Hidding (a SIM Member) on this nationally published article. You can read the article at:
“The IT Platform Principle: The First Shall not be Last”

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