Top concerns 2008/9 - comparison with 2006/7

This is the fourth Top Concerns survey UCISA has carried out. A comparison with the 2006-7 overall results of the UCISA Top Concerns survey is presented below:

Rank	Concern	# 2008-9 equivalent concern	Ranking of 2008-9 equivalent
1	Resources for IT	1	1
2	IT strategy and planning	7	2
3	E-learning	25	9
4	Business Systems	23	4
5	Service Availability	9	6
6	Architected Infrastructure	8	10
7	Governance	4	8
8	Disaster Recovery	11	-
9	Information Management	19	-
10	Identity Management	17	-

The top two concerns (Funding and sustainable resourcing of IT and IT strategy and planning) remain the same. Organisational change and process improvement is a new highly ranked concern for the 2008-9 survey. Business Systems and Service Availability remain at approximately the same relative position. "Environmentally friendly" computing / energy efficiency is now in the Top-ten as are IT service quality and Data centres. E-learning has a lower ranking in the 2008-9 survey but is still in the Top-ten. Disaster recovery and Identity Management are just outside the “top ten” in the 2008-9 results.


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