Biggest Barriers to Effectiveness in CIO Role in Large Portuguese Companies

  • Authors:

  • João Varajão;António Trigo;José Bulas-Cruz;João Barroso

  • Affiliations:

  • Departamento de Engenharias, Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Vila Real, Portugal 5001-801;Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão de Mirandela, Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Mirandela, Portugal 5370-326;Centro de Investigação e de Tecnologias Agroambientais e Biológicas, Vila Real, Portugal 5001-801;Grupo de Investigação em Engenharia do Conhecimento e Apoio á Decisão, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Porto, Portugal 4200-072

  • Venue:
  • WSKS '08 Proceedings of the 1st world summit on The Knowledge Society: Emerging Technologies and Information Systems for the Knowledge Society
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

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.