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According to KPMG

CIO Research,

additional IT

spending increased in

2021

According to the results of the world’s largest

IT research by KPMG and Harvey Nash, the
average additional IT spending increased
by 5 percent in 2020 during the pandemic
process globally. On the other hand, average

additional IT spending in Turkey increased
by 12% during 2021.

The CIO Survey of KPMG, which provides technology-based
services in auditing, tax, corporate finance and consulting, and
Harvey Nash, a recruitment consultancy and IT outsourcing
service provider, was conducted with the participation of over
4,200 IT leaders from many different industries and geogra-
phies. The world’s most comprehensive IT survey shows that
the average october IT spend has increased by 5 percent during
the pandemic process, while looking at the operational prior-
ities of CIOs, efficiency, customer loyalty and effective use of
the workforce stand out.

According to the study, 86 percent of the participants switched
their work force to working remotely with the pandemic. More
than half of CIOs predict that remote work will continue. The
top five skills gaps revealed by the pandemic are cybersecu-
rity (35%), organizational change management (26%), en-
terprise architecture (22 percent), technical architecture (22
percent) and advanced analytics (22 percent). The fact that
cyber security ranks first among the investment priorities at
the beginning of the pandemic also confirms these answers. 61
percent of global CIOs participating in the research think that