vnunet.com Innovation stressed for business success Gartner Group's Michael Gubbins announced the result of Gartner's annual EXP study which interviewed 600 CIOs and found that despite budgetary pressures, companies are seeing the ability to bring fresh ideas to market faster than competitors as increasingly important.

Amusingly "some 55 per cent believe that it would be impossible to transform the majority of their processes or systems to a real-time model within a decade." - Which to me simply suggests that they haven't started looking properly yet as the tools and processes definately exist and are in use by leading edge companies.