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Biggest Barriers to Effectiveness in CIO Role in Large Portuguese Companies

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Emerging Technologies and Information Systems for the Knowledge Society (WSKS 2008)

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This study provides some empirical insight on the barriers that chief information officers face in their Job. The findings of the survey we conducted directed to the chief information officers of the 500 large Portuguese companies by gross revenue, suggest three main barriers: the lack of time to think and define strategies, the overwhelming backlog of requests and projects and inadequate budgets. The knowledge and understanding of the identified barriers contributes to the characterization of chief information officer role state of the art and should be useful for practitioners, who may use it as a basis for developing solutions in order to overcome these barriers.

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  1. Departamento de Engenharias, Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Apartado 1013, 5001-801, Vila Real, Portugal

    João Varajão

  2. Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão de Mirandela, Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Rua João Maria Sarmento Pimentel, Apartado 128, 5370-326, Mirandela, Portugal

    António Trigo

  3. Centro de Investigação e de Tecnologias Agroambientais e Biológicas, Apartado 1013, 5001-801, Vila Real, Portugal

    José Bulas-Cruz

  4. Grupo de Investigação em Engenharia do Conhecimento e Apoio á Decisão, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 431, 4200-072, Porto, Portugal

    João Barroso

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Varajão, J., Trigo, A., Bulas-Cruz, J., Barroso, J. (2008). Biggest Barriers to Effectiveness in CIO Role in Large Portuguese Companies. In: Lytras, M.D., Carroll, J.M., Damiani, E., Tennyson, R.D. (eds) Emerging Technologies and Information Systems for the Knowledge Society. WSKS 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5288. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-87781-3_52

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