VideoLarge companies | Small/midsize businesses | ||
| Yes | 44% | 40% | 51% |
| No | 49% | 54% | 45% |
| Uncertain | 7% | 6% | 4% |
Who is ultimately responsible for authorizing IT spending in your company?
Large companies | Small/midsize businesses | ||
| CEO | 48% | 42% | 55% |
| CFO | 28% | 22% | 33% |
| CIO | 11% | 20% | 4% |
| CTO | 4% | 3% | 4% |
| Business-unit head(s) | 9% | 14% | 3% |
Has the ongoing news about the slow economy and the stock market decline caused you to reevaluate your technology budget/spending plans within the past month?
Large companies | Small/midsize businesses | ||
| Yes, will spend less than was budgeted at start of year | 20% | 27% | 12% |
| Yes, will spend more slowly, adopt a wait-and-see mode | 19% | 13% | 23% |
| Yes, lowered the approval authority for most employees; personally reviewing more expenditures | 5% | 4% | 8% |
| No change, but monitoring the situation closely and evaluating whether to reduce or delay spending | 34% | 41% | 31% |
| No change to our original plan | 18% | 14% | 20% |
| Yes, doing smaller deals | 4% | 2% | 6% |
If your company's profit picture improved in the next three to six months would you increase your spending on IT over currently planned levels?
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