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TRENDING
CIOS IN AFRICA ‘PLAY A
CENTRAL ROLE IN DEFINING
NEW BUSINESS MODELS’
Analysts examine the results of the Gartner 2019 CIO
Agenda that took place at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in
Cape Town, South Africa.
D
igital business is maturing and
forcing organisations to change their
business models and look to IT to
help. According to Gartner Inc’s annual CIO
survey, half of the CIOs in Africa said their
organisation has changed or is in the process
of changing their business models and the
CIO will have a pivotal role to play.
The survey found that 63% of respondents
in Africa are taking a lead role or are
heavily involved in the decision to change
business models.
The survey also revealed that IT has a
paramount role to play in the change.
“For 90% of CIOs in Africa IT is very or
extremely important to business model
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change,” said Tomas Nielsen, Research
Director at Gartner.
The survey gathered data from more than
3,000 CIO respondents in 89 countries and
all major industries, representing around
US$15 trillion in revenue and public-sector
budgets and US$284 billion in IT spending.
A total of 62 CIOs from Africa were surveyed,
representing US$4.4 billion in IT spending.
The need for a new foundation
The shift in business and operating
models means that CIOs must secure a
new foundation for IT. Globally, 33% of
organisations are scaling and harvesting the
results of digital business, while in Africa,
only 21% of CIOs are at that stage.
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AFRICAN CIOS
ARE STILL
CATCHING UP
ON THEIR
DIGITAL
BUSINESS
EFFORTS
COMPARED WITH
THEIR CIO
PEERS GLOBALLY.
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