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T E C H | 4/01/2013 @ 10:34PM | 18,858 views
21 Most Admired Companies
Making IT A Competitive
Advantage
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All enterprises, regardless of what they produce or the services they deliver, are really information businesses. The accuracy, speed and precision of IT systems means the difference between winning or losing customers, keeping supply chains profitable, and solidly translating new concepts into revenue-producing products and services. The world’s best-run services businesses have customer-driven IT as part of their DNA;
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it is very much who these companies are internally.
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In the recently published Gartner report CEO and Senior Executive
Survey 2013: 21 Top Companies Admired for Competitive IT completed between October and December, 2012, which was part of the 2013
CEO and Senior Business Executive Survey, C-level respondents were asked to name the companies they most admired in terms of their ability to apply
IT-related business capabilities for competitive advantage. Respondents were also asked to limit their responses only to their own and related industries. 391 respondents participated in the survey with 147 being CEOs, 149, CFOs;
49, COOs; and 46 being board members including Chairman of the board and president. Geographic distribution included 152 respondents from North
America; 124 from Europe; 78 from Asia/Pacific; 20 from Brazil; 12 from South Africa; and 5 from the Middle East with minimum company size being $250M in annual sales or above.
The following is the list of the world’s most admired companies using IT for competitive advantage.
Most Admired Companies Making IT A Competitive Advantage
Accenture
Amazon
Apple
Cleveland Clinic
General Electric
Goldman