As CIOs in Asia continue their push for growth, a focus on cost structure, people and processes reflects their increasingly integral role in the business, according to a survey.
The 2012 Gartner Executive Programs (EXP) CIO Agenda survey also said the business and technology priorities of Asian CIOs are strongly aligned with their global counterparts, with a few notable differences.
“This is the first time that we’ve seen such a tight alignment and I think it shows that Asia and the rest of the world are becoming one. Globalization is really having a huge impact on the global CIOs’ view of business,” said Linda Price, Gartner executive programs group vice president for Asia Pacific.
Leading the technology priority list for Asian CIO’s this year are business intelligence and analytics, mobile technologies and cloud computing, the survey said.
Reducing enterprise costs did not make the top ten business priority list for CIOs in Asia in 2011, but ranked number three on the list worldwide. Since then, however, it has become the third most important business priority in 2012.
In line with this, Asian CIOs are also focused on consolidating, standardizing and streamlining operations, but this did not feature on the priority list of their global counterparts.