According to a new annual survey of IT organizations in the U.S., 69 percent see “improving business process and efficiency” as their top priority, followed closely by “aligning IT priorities with business growth” at 61 percent, and “increasing overall productivity with new technologies” at 59 percent.
This finding was part of the IT Priorities Survey that TechRepublic and ZDNet will conduct every year as a means of tracking IT health. Indeed, with 2012 as the survey’s first year, the budget benchmark is pretty healthy.
- More than twice as many organizations increased IT budgets in 2011 as reduced them.
- IT budgets have gone up for 38.7 percent of organizations, stayed flat for 44.6 percent, and were reduced at just 16.7 percent of responding companies.
- More than 20 percent of respondents increased their IT budgets this year by more than 10 percent.
Two-thirds (66.2 percent) of businesses with greater than 500 employees are lowering IT infrastructure costs, while only 44.4 percent of businesses with 49 or fewer employees have reduced their IT infrastructure costs.

