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Capgemini Consulting Global CIO survey 2007, IT agility –enabling business freedom

The escalating rate of business change poses a serious challenge to any organisation. Proactive businesses able to manage this changing business climate are steaming ahead, watched by their envious peers.

These are companies clearly equipped to react to the changing environment in a competitive way, capable of turning threats into opportunities. Agility, the ability to adapt and refocus the business, is the difference between success and failure.

A survey by Capgemini Consulting Global this year found clear evidence that the business environment continues to change with increased intensity, affecting companies on all levels. In the survey, 97 % of the organisations said they experienced major change that forced them to alter their way of doing business during the last three years.

Increasing uncertainty poses a serious threat to competitiveness in the market. And ill-prepared organisations are being forced to change at great effort and expense. It was revealed that companies who are proactive and plan ahead, adapting to ways of doing business that reflect the uncertain business environment, can successfully turn threats into opportunities.

The agility is the determining factor for how well organisations manage the changing environment. The agility does exist and that an organisation is far more likely to succeed if it leads the change rather than simply taking a reactive approach. Equipping both the business and IT for change can give an organisation a distinct competitive advantage. But what makes an agile organisation?

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It should come as no surprise that a significant number of respondents believe that the ability of the IT function is critical for achieving business agility and that central to it all is employee capability. People will be the decisive factor in the achievement of not only business agility but also agile IT, and in your ability to compete in a fast changing business environment.

This survey was based on face-to-face interviews with CIOs and other IT executives in 301 companies and organisations in Europe, North America and Asia. 21 countries are represented and the respondents are spread over a wide range of industries. The interviews were conducted between August and November 2006 by senior consultants from Capgemini Consulting.

The average revenue of the surveyed companies is approximately 8 billion Euros and the average IT budget is approximately 100 million Euros (average IT budget measures 1.25% of total revenue).

Global Gilles Camoin
Capgemini Consulting
+33 (0) 1 49675579

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