Trends Report

The Shrinking Productivity Gains From Technology Investments

CIOs Will Need A New Approach To Justifying Their Tech Investments

Andrew Bartels
 and  four contributors
May 01, 2019

Summary

Improving productivity has been core to the value proposition for technology investments. However, trends in overall US productivity indicate that tech spending is not delivering the same lift to productivity it once did. Of course, there are exceptions to this emerging rule, so there are still many cases when tech investments can be justified based on productivity gains. CIOs will increasingly need to justify tech investments based on effectiveness and probabilistic benefits (more positive outcomes; fewer negative outcomes).

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