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June 07, 2010
CIOs Focused On Cost Savings
By Mike Sachoff
Organizations across the financial services, healthcare, retail and public sectors are failing to align their IT and business priorities, according to a survey by market research company Vanson Bourne and sponsored by Micro Focus.

The survey polled 250 CIOs and IT professionals at organizations with more than 1,000 employees across the United States, United Kingdom and Germany, and focused on what IT departments in these vertical sectors are doing to support business growth.

When asked what the top business priority was, the majority of respondents in financial services (38 percent), healthcare (24 percent) and retail (28 percent) named innovation with new products/services, while their counterparts in the public sector cited cost-cutting (31 percent). However, when asked what the top IT priority was, cost reduction ranked highest across the board in all vertical sectors.

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