Final Report: Vendors

5. IT Barriers

Vendors identify lack of financial support, failure to execute/develop implementation plans, and proving ROI as barriers to implementing IT in their client's organizations.

Respondents were asked to identify what they considered to be the most significant barrier to successfully implementing IT in their client's organizations. The top three barriers cited were lack of adequate financial support for IT at the client's facility (21%), client's lack of a strategic IT plan or the failure to execute implementation (19%), and difficulty in proving quantifiable benefits/return on IT investment to client (18%).

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Figure 9. Most Significant Barrier to IT Implementation at Client Facilities

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