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Innovation suffers at hands of IT cuts

Janine Milne Published 04 January 2010

New business wins also affected by falling IT budgets

Recessionary budget cuts in IT have damaged innovation and cost companies their customers, according to an international BT Global Services study.

A quarter of the senior executives surveyed from 13 countries admitted that budget squeezes had harmed innovation, while a similar number claimed it prevented them winning business. More than a quarter (27%) said that being unable to lay their hands on the information they needed, at the time they needed it, had cost them business.

Ageing IT was pinpointed by two-thirds of CIOs and senior executives as a barrier to think globally. Inadequate software solutions also came under fire.

The BT-comissioned survey was carried out on 2,400 IT users and 270 CIOs globally by Datamonitor.

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