Key information technology and management issues: 2011-12 Americas study

Abstract

The importance of the impact of IT for organizations around the world, especially in light of a sluggish recovery from the global financial crisis, has amplified the need to provide a better understanding of the specific geographic similarities and differences of IT managerial and technical trends. Going beyond identifying these influential factors is also the need to understand the considerations for addressing them. This helps in recognizing the respective local characteristics, especially when operating in a globally-linked environment. By comparing and contrasting IT trends from different geographies in the Americas, this paper presents important local and international factors necessary to prepare IT leaders for the challenges that await them. It can also serve as an indicator as the respective geographies evolve from the economic conundrum. The same questionnaire (albeit translated for the respective respondents), based on the long-running Society for Information Management (SIM) survey, was applied across the geographies and the results are analyzed and presented in this paper. © (2012) by the AIS/ICIS Administrative Office All rights reserved.