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INFORMATION, COMMUNICATION, TECHNOLOGY ANNUAL MANUFACTURING REPORT2016 14 What do you believe are the current major barriers 15 to investment and implementation of IT within your organisation? (Mark as many as apply). Lack of skills required to implement and maintain IT solutions Insufficient management buy-in Lack of confidence / understanding in the potential return on investment Thinking about your IT infrastructure as a whole, to what extent do you use open source software? (eg. Linux, MySQL, Apache, LibreOffice etc). 2015 51% Employee attitudes/resistance to change Cost of investment Overall risk of such a project in current economic times Technology not sufficiently matched to business needs and exiting manufacturing Previous experiences of IT projects Pace at which technology becomes obsolete No barriers experienced / envisaged 2015 2014 2013 2012 We don’t use it, and have no plans to We don’t use it, but recognise that we might in the future. We do use it in certain aspects of our operations. We consider ourselves to be sophisticated users of open source, deploying it wherever it suits our business. 51% 21% 26% 3% 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 2014 2013 For more than half (54%) of respondents, cost remains the biggest obstacle to investment and implementation of ICT. This has remained at about the same level ever since we started asking, with a spike to 61% two years ago. As the government raised the Annual Investment Allowance to £500,000 for nearly two years, this has to be a disappointment. ICT is essential in the drive to raise productivity but it still appears to be a chicken and egg situation. 36% 50% Almost as many (46%) respondents mentioned employee attitudes/ resistance to change. This concern seems to fluctuate, year to year; it hasn’t settled into a pattern. Lack of confidence or understanding of the potential ROI is also high, at 41%. On the bright side, insufficient management buy-in remains below 30% - at 28%, in fact. Concern about lack of skills has fallen markedly, from 36 to 21%. This is probably to be expected, as there is no shortage of people offering integration and implementation services. The perceived overall risk of such a project in current economic circumstances is mentioned by the same proportion: 21%. Concerns about obsolescence, previous poor experiences and unmatched technology are mentioned by a smattering across the sample, adding up to 10% in each case. Fewer than one in 10 (8%) said that they neither experienced nor envisaged barriers to investment and implementation of IT projects. 31% 29% 36% 4% 28% 17% 50% 6% Even fewer (29%) respondents this year said that they use open source software. The total has actually declined, year on year; it was 56% in 2013, then 40% last year. However, customers and collaborators from the other end might have a different story to tell as it is not unknown for error messages to mention Apache, MySQL or something else. However, our respondents tend to be users of the software, rather than technical experts. Just over one-fifth (21%) of respondents recognise that they might well use such systems in the future but more than half (51%) said that they don’t and have no plans to.
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