If we are to believe the latest 2008 McKinsey Annual IT Survey then our progress has been a little disappointing. These two charts show that we are spending too much time trimming our budgets and being compliant rather than being creative and working as a true partner within our IT organisations - in spite of us fully realising this.
I’m not so sure this is really the case in Australian higher education but it still signals a warning that there are endemic issues with getting great technology adopted at the coal face.
The survey finds that most executives (548 were polled) expect IT spending to decrease in 2009 - due to the worsening economic climate. Tellingly, in 2008 half the survey respondents expected IT spending to increase, this year the figure is only 23%.
