This year our survey attracted 56 CIOs and IT technology leaders from Switzerland representing a wide spread of industries. Our report highlights the key findings for Switzerland and compares Swiss CIO views with over 1,200 other CIOs from across 43 countries.

1. Deloitte CIO Survey Switzerland 2015
The legacy of the CIO
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2. • The Deloitte Swiss CIO
Survey 2015 is part of
the Deloitte Global CIO
Survey. More than 1,200
CIOs participated from 43
countries including 56 from
Switzerland.
About the Deloitte Swiss CIO Survey 2015
Participants by industry Participants by revenue
Life Sciences
Financial Services
Public Sector
Consumer
Business
Manufacturing
and Energy
Services
<1 bn CHF
1-10 bnCHF
10-20 bnCHF
20-50 bn CHF
>50 bnCHF
44%
41%
7%
4% 4%
21%18%
18%
20%
20%
3%
• The sample represents a
wide spread of industries
from companies of all sizes
in Switzerland. This gives us
confidence that our sample
can be used as a proxy
for the Swiss corporate
IT landscape.
• The findings correlate
strongly with the global
responses giving us
further confidence in the
representative nature of
the Swiss sample.

3. …but cost reduction
remains a major objective
Even as IT budgets have
risen, cost reduction is
the most frequently cited
business priority for Swiss
CIOs: 54% call it a priority in
Switzerland – greater than
anywhere else in the world.
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IT budgets of Swiss
companies have grown
significantly over the last two
years, with 53% of Swiss CIOs
reporting a budget increase –
higher than in 2013 and 2014
and higher than the global
average for 2015...
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4. CIOs face competing priorities
The Swiss CIO faces competing
priorities: assisting in cost
reduction in addition to
playing a key role in delivering
innovation and digital
technology.
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5. Focus on operations…
Swiss CIOs spend a
greater amount of their
time (37%) on managing
IT operations than on
any other activity.
…but aspire to strategy
Their current focus may be
on operations, but Swiss
CIOs prefer to spend more
time engaged in strategy
development (27% rather
than 18% of time currently).
73% of our respondents see
their ideal role as a co-leader
of business strategy.
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6. Imperfect reporting
relationships
62% of CIOs want to
report directly to the CEO,
but only 31% actually do.
4% report to the CFO,
but only 5% of CIOs see
this as the ideal reporting
relationship.
Establishing trusted
relationships
Swiss CIOs establish trusted
relationships by being:
1. transparent about what
they do
2. good communicators
3. honest and upfront
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7. Trusted
Operator
Business
Co-creator
Change
Instigator
Three patterns of the CIO:
The survey results reveal three patterns of the CIO:
Trusted Operators, Change Instigators and Business
Co-creators. Most Swiss CIOs today fall into the
‘Trusted Operator’ category. Consistent with the
picture of Swiss CIOs as a group being more
operationally focused than their international peers.
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Authors and contacts
Read the full report here: www.deloitte.com/ch/ciosurvey
Authors
Michael MacNicholas
Director, Technology Strategy
Deloitte Consulting AG
+41 58 279 67 78
mimacnicholas@deloitte.ch
Ferenc Györ
Manager, Analytics
Deloitte Consulting AG
+41 58 279 76 34
fgyoer@deloitte.ch
Contacts
Nick Davies
Managing Partner, Consulting
Deloitte Consulting AG
+41 58 279 68 10
nidavies@deloitte.ch
Mike Duggan
Lead Partner,
Technology Advisory
Deloitte Consulting AG
+41 58 279 68 15
miduggan@deloitte.ch
Acknowledgement
We would like to
thank all participating
executives for their
support in completing
the survey and
conducting interviews
with us.
Contributors
Klaus Fojan
Patrick Haddedou
Olli Kinnunen
Seren Ali