Gartner: IT budgets to increase only 1% in 2015

Gartner: IT budgets to increase only 1% in 2015   Global IT budgets will only grow 1% compared with last year, according to a Gartner Research survey. The survey also found that 79% of IT spending will be controlled by the IT department, up slightly from last year.Three-quarters of the survey's respondents say they need to adapt their leadership style in the next three years to provide more visionary leadership, rather than control functional IT within the enterprise. According the results of the survey, 41% of CIOs report to the CEO, one of the highest levels ever reported in the survey. Read more >