Gartner has published the results of its EXP CIO report “Meeting the Challenge: The 2009 CIO Agenda” which surveyed 1,527 CIOs between September 15 to December 15 2008 across 48 countries and 30 industries. It reports that most IT budgets are bound to stay flat across companies in North America and Europe and slightly increase in Latin America and Asia/Pacific.

The report also highlights that senior executives expect IT to play a role in reducing enterprise costs, not merely with cost cutting but by changing business processes, workforce practices and information use.

According to the survey, business process improvement is at the top of CIOs agendas and it has been has been like this for last four years since survey was introduced in 2005. Business process management solutions can certainly help increase efficiencies in a firm by identifying redundant processes so that these can be reduced and resources can be allocated to core tasks. Processes are also automated so activities take up less time enabling a firm to be more profitable and more efficient in its services.

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