CANADA CIO Agenda 2019 - #GartnerSYM

From Gartner Youtube channel – that telecasted the Garter CIO summit happened in Toronto on 5-6 June 2019. Watch the full video here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dS-NZkJYcU

N = 176 CIOs in Canada.

Key insights!

1.       44% of Canada CIOs say Culture is biggest barrier

2.       78% of the Top performers adopt Product Centric delivery

3.       53% of the organization in Canada started adopting DevOps.

4.       1 in 3 CIOs have renovated their core.

5.       Financial goals are a uniquely popular priority for Canadian CIOs, thus indicating a heightened degree of cost consciousness among organizations.

6.       Canada’s average IT budget jumped from 1.3% in 2018 to 2% in 2019, which was higher growth than the year prior. The global average IT budget experienced about a 3% increase.

7.       Canadian CIOs are playing an active role in business model change, showcasing the importance that information and technology (I&T) has on creating business models that were not possible in the past. This puts CIOs in a powerful position transform the business, and CEOs are counting on them to do so

Barriers

·         The data shows that their organizations are not innovative enough and that there is a lack of buy-in for various digital initiatives, which is why Canada lags behind in digital maturity compared to typical global organizations.

·         Canada has more structural and engrained leadership challenges compared with its global peers.

Solution

·         Communicating the value of IT as well as cultivating strong executive partnerships were the top two strategies that respondents identified to overcoming these barriers