The Society for Information Management recently polled CIOs about their IT spending priorities and plans for dollar allocation in the coming year. An overview of the results is presented in this slide show on CIO Insight. It’s hard to visualize from the slides so I created these two pie charts to represent their findings about 2009 versus 2010 budgets. It looks like the news is better in the coming year— roughly half of the CIOs surveyed said their 2010 budgets would remain the same.
50% of CIOs said their budgets would be lower in 2009.
45% of CIOs said their budgets would be the same in 2010.
Seems like the changing metric is the blue one: those companies planning to reduce their IT budget next year.
The captions under each graphic don’t compare the same metric, a little confusing. I suggest changing the caption on the 2009-2010 chart to read:
“28% of CIOs said their budgets would be lower in 2010″.
You’re right. The information in the slide show would be communicated better in a short article with your graphics.