Key issues for IT executives 2010: Judicious IT investments continue post-recession

MIS Quarterly Executive

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 263-273

  Luftman, Jerry ^a   Ben Zvi, Tal ^a  

^a STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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EID: 79956090082     PISSN: 15401960     EISSN: 15401979     Source Type: Journal    
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1. Leslie Willcocks is the accepting Senior Editor for this article. The lead author wishes to express his appreciation for the support of Herman van Bolhuis and Barry Derksen, bITa Center, for their support in obtaining the European data; and to Hossein Zadeh, RMIT, for his support in obtaining the Asian/Australian data.
2. For the 2009 findings, see the authors' article "Key Issues for IT Executives 2009" published in the March 2010 issue of MIS Quarterly Executive (9:1), pp. 49-59.
3. Harvey Nash, "CIO Survey, 2010: New Decade, New Opportunities?" Harvey Nash Plc, 2010
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5. For a discussion of the importance of CIO communications with other company officers, see the Peter Keen interview by Omar ElSawy: "Engaging in CIO-CxO 'Conversations that Matter'" in the March 2010 issue of MIS Quarterly Executive (9:1), pp. 61-64.
6. Gartner Press Release, "Gartner Outlines the Top 10 Forces to Impact Outsourcing and IT Services Industry," September 8, 2010, http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1433214.
7. "Fifth Annual US Cost of Data Breach Study: Understanding Financial Impact, Customer Turnover, and Preventive Solutions," Ponemon Institute, PGP Corporation, January 2010.
8. For a discussion of managerial issues as part of an information security strategy, see T. Kayworth and D.Whitten, "Effective Information Security Requires a Balance of Social and Technology Factors," MIS Quarterly Executive (9:3), September 2010, pp. 163-175.
9. For a broader discussion of IT workforce issues, see the articles published in the December 2009 issue of MIS Quarterly Executive on the theme: Domestic and Global Sourcing of the IT Workforce.
10. Gartner Press Release, "Gartner Survey Shows Cloud-Computing Services Represents 10 Percent of Spending on External IT Services in 2010," September 22, 2010, http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1438813.
11. For discussion of Cloud computing based on research for SIM-APC, see B. Iyer and J. Henderson, "Preparing for the Future: Understanding the Seven Capabilities of Cloud Computing," MIS Quarterly Executive (9:2), June 2010, pp. 117-131.
12. Gartner Press Release, "Gartner Says Worldwide Enterprise IT Spending on Pace to Grow 2.9 Percent in 2010," August 10, 2010, http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1419513.
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