Information as a Strategy is next level of Corporate Enlightenment: Gartner

As per discussions by analysts at the Gartner Business Intelligence & Information Management Summit, it has been revealed that less than 10 per cent of today's enterprises have a true information strategy.

Partha Iyengar, Country Manager for Research, India, Gartner, said, "When asked about the new kinds of information they anticipate as being disruptive in the next few years, half of the respondents to Gartner’s 2013 Worldwide CEO and Senior Executive Survey could not provide an answer or name a technology. The social Internet, inexpensive sensors, the Internet of things and other trends will cause an explosion in the types of information that are available. In this way, competition will increasingly be defined by differential access, control and value recognition and timely exploitation of information."
 
Given the level of important strategic work to be done on the information that the company uses, it is essential to identify who in the organization is ultimately responsible for this. In most organizations, CIOs do not take responsibility for information policy, for new information acquisition or for information asset business exploitation. CEOs are beginning to see that gap and try to fill it, with a head of information management or a chief data officer (CDO).
 
In order to break through to higher levels of corporate enlightenment on information centricity, Gartner recommends methods for creating breakthrough thinking among senior leaders and