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2015 Global Digital IQ® Survey
September 2015
Lessons from digital leaders
10 attributes driving stronger
performance
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Will your digital strategy drive top-line
growth or real disruption?
Since 2007, our unique research has asked one simple
question: What actions can leaders take to confirm their
digital investments deliver and sustain value? To get to
the answer, we study the practices and performance
of global companies, drawn from the experience of
nearly 2,000 business and technology executives.
This year we have identified 10 critical attributes that
correlate with stronger financial performance.
Top-performing companies are more deliberate in their
digital strategy, innovation, and execution. They are
more likely to have CEO commitment, strategic clarity,
and shared understanding. They are more apt to take
a broad view when applying technology and identifying
sources of innovation. And they are more prone to being
skilled at turning their data into insight, proactive in
cybersecurity, and consistent in measuring outcomes
from digital investments. Those organizations that
displayed these attributes—our Digital IQ®
leaders—
were twice as likely to achieve more rapid revenue
and profit growth as the laggards in our study.
In addition to establishing the direct linkage between
digital investment and corporate performance, our
research revealed important trends about the nature of
disruption and the barriers organizations face in its wake.
1. Digital for today’s business—not tomorrow’s.
Despite the market fervor, companies are not
investing in technology to disrupt their own or other
industries. They are almost entirely focused on
applying digital to grow their existing business models
and the short-sighted view is cause for concern.
2. Yet plenty of disruption occurring
inside of organizations.
Leadership’s desire to capitalize on digital technology
is so strong that it’s disrupting the enterprise operating
model, as evidenced by shifting spending patterns, new
digital roles, and undefined working relationships.
3. And companies are held back
by a slow-tech approach.
Staying ahead of both market and internal disruption
requires thinking and acting more like a nimble startup.
Companies need to accelerate productive cross-
functional relationships, how they learn and partner,
and skills development.
Our Digital IQ findings have never been more relevant.
As organizations continue to invest heavily in digital
technology, and customers, employees, shareholders,
and boards raise their expectations, management
teams are under pressure to translate that considerable
investment into real returns. We believe that, first,
leaders must have a clear understanding of today’s
digital climate. Only then will they be equipped to set
themselves up for superior performance in their current
business—and ones they have yet to reimagine.
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Digital IQ leaders are twice as likely
to achieve rapid revenue and profit
growth as the laggards in our study.
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What do the digital signs reveal
about your business?
Our research reveals clear signs that 2015 is a tipping
point. While we see some regional differences across
the globe, business leaders are poised to unlock real
competitive advantage through their digital investments.
Here’s why:
CEOs are all-in.
The vast majority (86%) of CEOs we spoke with in our
annual survey felt it was crucial to champion the use
of digital technologies.1
Are they walking the talk? Yes,
according to the nearly three-quarters of business and
IT executives in our Digital IQ survey. Even more telling
is the significant uptick we’ve seen over the last two
years: just 57% said their CEO champions digital in
2013, compared with 71% in 2014, and 73% this year. A
regional standout here is the Middle East where 84% of
executives point to a CEO champion in their organization.
Digital disconnect: how leaders see digital
Source: PwC, 2015 Global Digital IQ®
Survey; Base: 1,988
Q: How does your organization define digital? Select up to two statements that best describe your company.
Aggressive investment is occurring.
The CEO mandate is influencing significant investment
in digital: Nearly one-third of respondents (31%) say
their companies are investing more than 15% of revenue
into technology investments that span all areas of the
business, not just IT. This is considerably higher than
the single-digit spending forecasts that technology
analysts typically make. Regionally, executives in
Africa (42%) and Southeast Asia (40%) are most
likely to be investing more than 15% of revenue.
Confidence continues to rise.
Two-thirds of respondents rate their companies as
having a strong Digital IQ, slightly up from 64% last
year. Executives in Asia (64%), Scandinavia (59%),
and Western Europe (54%) are less confident.
Synonymous with IT
Customer-facing
technology activities
Technology investments
in all parts of business
Technology innovation-
related activities
Data andanalytics activities
62%
50%
14% 11% 13%
41% 41%
25%
29%
33%
41%
45% 46%
37%
49%
CIO CMO CDO
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Lack of a common definition.
We asked executives to choose the two most-apt
definitions of digital for their business. While the
majority (53%) think of it as the activities related to
technology innovation, and a large share (41%) see
it as the investments made to integrate technology
into all parts of the business, a sizable number define
it as IT (37%) or customer-facing activities (36%).
CIOs and CDOs tend to be on the same page, but
CMOs have different priorities and expectations.
The regional picture is also mixed, with Central and
Eastern European executives most often viewing digital
as IT, while those in North America (48%) and the
Middle East (69%) most often view it more broadly.
New and evolving roles.
Where enterprise technology used to be the sole domain
of the Chief Information Officer (CIO), there’s a shift
happening in many organizations, with the traditional CIO
role fragmenting across new and existing leaders. Some
companies are appointing Chief Digital Officers (CDOs)
to lead digital transformation efforts, as evidenced by a
forthcoming PwC Strategy study, Digitizing the business:
The 2015 Chief Digital Officer Study. Executives in our
survey indicate that while many CIOs predominantly lead
all digital efforts today (40%), there will be a drop-off in
three years’ time (35%). At the same time, executives say
they expect the CIO will ramp up the internal focus on IT
and innovation from 32% today to 36% in three years. In
some regions the marginalization of the CIO role is even
more pronounced: In North America (44% today), CIOs
who have responsibility for digital across the business
is expected to sharply drop to 31% in three years.
Distributed technology spending.
The majority of spending (68%) is now coming from
budgets outside of IT’s, a significant increase from 47%
the prior year. In Central and Eastern Europe (73%)
and North America (71%), an even greater share of
spending is happening outside of the CIO’s control.
And just who’s ultimately responsible for investments
also has changed, with the CEO (34%) at the forefront,
followed by the CIO (27%), the CDO (14%), and the
CFO (13%). CIOs in North America and Western
Europe are more likely to be responsible for digital
investment, while in the Middle East it is CDOs.
CIO back to the back office?
Tech investment increasing
outside of IT
Source: PwC, 2015 Global Digital IQ®
Survey, 2014 Digital IQ®
Survey; Bases: 1,988, 1,494
2015: Q: In the last 12 months, what percentage of your organization’s digital enterprise
budget was spent in the following areas?; 2014: In the last 12 months, of all the spending
in your organization on technology, what approximate percentage of it was spent in the
following functions?
Source: PwC, 2015 Global Digital IQ®
Survey; Base: 1,988 
Q: Which of the following best describes your CIO’s key responsibilities today?
In three years?
2014 Digital
IQ®
Survey
2015 Digital
IQ®
Survey
Lead IT efforts
and innovation
Lead IT efforts onlyLead all
digital efforts
68% 47%
29%32%
40%
29%
36%35%
Today In three years
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We see signs that digital is
creating significant disruption
inside of organizations.
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Collectively, these signals tell us
that businesses have raised the
stakes when it comes to digital.
There’s plenty of talk about
disruption, and what it takes to
challenge the status quo. But, in
fact, that’s not where companies
have put their time or money.
Just 1% of executives said their
number-one expectation for digital
was to disrupt their own or other
industries. (When asked to rank
the top-three ways digital will
provide value to the business,
the number rises to 8%.)
Instead, they seek more immediate
returns: 45% say the top priority
is growing revenue; 25% expect
digital to create better customer
experiences, and 12% see it
increasing profits. In short, digital
is a way to grow today’s business,
not necessarily tomorrow’s.
Leaving aside questions of short-
sightedness—for now—we
wondered: Are they succeeding?
Have they focused their efforts in
the most effective way, especially
given the hypercompetitive
environment in which they find
themselves? According to a
recent study by PwC Strategy2
,
executives continue to reiterate
their pursuit of growth, but they
also admit to lacking confidence
in their ability to achieve targets.
Chasing digital value:
what businesses really want
Disruption is top of mind—but
bottom of investment priorities
Source: PwC, 2015 Global Digital IQ®
Survey; Base: 1,988
Q: What value do you expect from your digital enterprise investments? Select the top three in ranked order. First-ranked.
45%
Grow revenue
25%
Create better customer
experiences
12%
Increase profits
5%
Innovate our products
4%
Achieve cost savings
2%
Improve talent retention
and recruitment
2%
Enhance brand and reputation
2%
Improve decision making
through better data analytics
1%
Disrupt our own or other industries
1%
Combat new industry entrants
1%
Other
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Digital IQ
10 attributes that
fuel your digital
growth engine
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01 02
03 04
05 06
07 08
09 10
Our CEO is a champion for digital. The executives responsible for
digital are involved in setting high-
level business strategy.
Business-aligned digital strategy is
agreed upon and shared at the C-level.
Business and digital strategy are
well communicated enterprise-wide.
We actively engage with external
sources to gather new ideas for
applying emerging technologies.
Digital enterprise investments are made
primarily for competitive advantage.
We effectively utilize all the data we
capture to drive business value.
We proactively evaluate and plan
for security and privacy risks in
digital enterprise projects.
We have a single, multi-year digital
enterprise roadmap that includes
business capabilities and processes as
well as digital and IT components.
We consistently measure outcomes from
our digital technology investments.
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77.2
Global average
75.8
76.6
75.6
77.4
77.3
76.6
79.5
77.8
77.6
77.1
Automotive
Healthcare
Energyandmining
Hospitalityandleisure
Entertainment,media
andcommunications
Industrialproducts
Powerandutilities
Financialservices
Retailandconsumer
Technology
Our Digital IQ analysis reveals that despite high confidence in their capabilities, companies fall short in linking
digital to tangible gains. But there is a path forward. Based upon the responses from the nearly 2,000 executives in
our survey, we analyzed more than 25 factors, spanning strategy, innovation, and execution. Ultimately, we isolated
the 10 attributes that correlate with stronger financial performance; collectively these make up our overall Digital
IQ score. Companies with high Digital IQs (those in the top quartile) were twice as likely to achieve rapid revenue
growth and profit growth as the laggards in our study.
Our Digital IQ score provides a consistent way to assess how well organizations are capturing the value they expect
from technology investments—in particular the growth that so many seek. We use Digital IQ as a tool for quantifying
and benchmarking how well positioned companies are to realize returns—as individual organizations, within an
industry, or compared with other peer groups. While the overall score is directionally important, the real strength of
Digital IQ comes when evaluating scores for each of the 10 attributes to identify differences in a company’s digital
understanding, priorities, and gaps.
Source: PwC, 2015 Global Digital IQ®
Survey; Base: 1,988
What’s your Digital IQ?
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Sharpen digital strategy—
from the boardroom to the
breakroom
Given the strategic importance of digital, it follows
that four of the 10 Digital IQ attributes fall within the
strategy pillar. The foremost is CEO leadership, which
must be backed up with ownership by the digital
leader and rest of executive team, then the ongoing
engagement with the rest of the organization.
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CEOs have disruption on the radar, but
did rest of exec team miss the memo?
Financial value Disruption
54%
16%
CEO
50%
6%
CFO
47%
8%
CIO
54%
4%
COO
67%
3%
CDO
44%
7%
CMO
45%
4%
CTO
Source: PwC, 2015 Global Digital IQ®
Survey; Base: 1,988; Q: What value do you expect from your digital enterprise investments? Select
the top three in ranked order. (Grow revenue, increase profits; disrupt own or other industries; combat new industry entrants.)
01CEO champion
Tracking the relationship between CEO leadership and technology value has been an
area of Digital IQ study since its inception. In fact, we identified a correlation between a
CEO champion and stronger financial performance back in 2007 with our inaugural study.
The CEO is the natural leader as the focus on technology has shifted from operational
efficiency to growth, and the stakeholders and conversations have changed. CEOs have
ambitious expectations for digital, prioritizing disruption much more highly than the rest
of the executive team. Company boards are also more engaged in digital strategy. In our
forthcoming 2015 Annual Corporate Directors’ Survey, due in October 2015, we’ve found
that boards are spending more time discussing technology strategy and issues (especially
cybersecurity). While more directors (25% this year, up from 18% in 2012) now meet with
the company’s CIO at every formal board meeting, this signals an opportunity for CEOs
and their digital leaders to expand the discussion beyond cybersecurity.
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02Digital leaders set strategy
CEOs may set the tone and vision for digital, but those responsible for operationalizing
digital, often the CIO or CDO, are instrumental in setting high-level business strategy.
This is especially true in companies where digital leaders are responsible for a
significant share of the business. For some organizations, one effective way to
foster co-development of strategy is through new organizational structures. A global
healthcare company, for example, created a digital council that brings together the
company’s dozen CIOs and CMOs. Instead of tackling issues in their respective
business units, they work together on both digital strategy and execution. To truly be
effective such a council must be collaborative and cross-functional, made up of those
in both IT and business roles.
03Executive team engaged
Beyond the CDO and CIO, the rest of the C-suite must also weigh in on—then buy-in
to—the strategy. Being on the proverbial same-page means there’s greater likelihood
to maximize investments, enabling the organization to identify areas of overlap and
bring to light any resource gaps that could derail efforts. As we’ve seen in the last
several years of our study, productive relationships among the executive team are
essential to maximizing value from investments. This collaboration is especially vital
when it comes to the CIO and CMO. Companies may have their work cut out for
achieving a productive partnership: This relationship is the weakest one of the nine
relationship pairs we track, with 54% rating it as strong; in comparison, a strong
CIO-CEO relationship comes in at 70%.
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Digital spending for customer efforts surpasses IT
04Strategy-sharing across the organization
Finally, strategy isn’t complete without engagement by everyone in the organization.
We’ve seen the importance of this simple but powerful practice over the last three years.
While today 69% of companies say that business and digital strategies are shared
enterprise-wide, it hasn’t always been this way. Last year companies put that figure at
55%, and the prior year it was just 50%. Business leaders are often using technology
to help them get the word out and mobilize employees around the strategy. They’re
filming videos, taking to social media, and leveraging smartphones, not only to share
the strategy but to create a dialogue about how it affects their employees.
Source: PwC, 2015 Global Digital IQ®
Survey; Base: 1,988
Q: In the last 12 months, what percentage of your organization’s digital enterprise budget was spent in the following areas?
45%
40%
35%
30%
25%
Africa Asia Central and
Eastern
Europe
Latin
America
Middle
East
North
America
Western
Europe
Other functionsIT Marketing and sales
32%
36%
34%
39%
31%
28%
35%
34%
43%
27%
40%
29%
33%
37%
36%
39%
29%
30%
33%
37%
32%
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Accelerate innovation with an
expansive view of sources but a
diligent business focus
While many considerations guide a company’s
innovation strategy for shorter-term growth and longer-
term differentiation, there are two key factors that
inform Digital IQ: looking for innovation in new and
unexplored places, then decisively acting upon those
that are most competitively advantageous.
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71% of digital disruptors
continually look for opportunities
to digitize the business, compared
with 63% of other companies.
05Outside-in approach
Top-performing companies take an outside-in approach to innovation, leveraging the
considerable knowledge base of other innovators, such as vendors or customers, to
uncover and apply new ideas for using technology. They’re also more likely to evaluate
many emerging technologies, characterizing their approach to adoption as one that’s
technology-driven (69% vs. 50% for other companies), as opposed to influenced
by the business or vendors. Our analysis also revealed that companies more keenly
focused on business model innovation—the 8% of companies looking to disrupt
their own or other industries—take an even more rigorous outside-in approach. They
have a broad view of innovation and continually look for opportunities to digitize the
business. Seventy-one percent of digital disruptors do this, compared with 63% of
other companies.
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06Driven by competitive advantage
Actively engaging and learning from many outside sources creates an opportunity
for market differentiation. With so many potential ideas, you must filter and prioritize
those that hold the most promise for the business. The emerging technologies that
land on each company’s short-list will vary widely, but those that executives see as
being most strategically important in three to five years are cybersecurity, data mining
and analysis, data visualization, digital delivery, and private cloud. We also see less
mainstream choices like NoSQL databases, sensors for instrumenting the business,
and enterprise wearables as important bets for competitiveness.3
Tech advances most influence
emerging technology adoption
Source: PwC, 2015 Global Digital IQ®
Survey; Base: 1,988
Q: How do you characterize your approach to adopting new and emerging technologies?
100%
75%
50%
25%
0%
Technology driven Business driven Vendor driven
TechnologyRetail and
consumer
Power
and
utilities
Industrial
products
Hospitality
and leisure
HealthcareFinancial
services
Entertainment,
media, and
communications
Energy
and
mining
Automotive
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Amp up execution with
critical capabilities and
a digital roadmap
While a company’s capabilities must be in lock-step with
its business strategy, and will be just as distinctive, two
capabilities are integral to Digital IQ: how you utilize data
and how you act upon cybersecurity and privacy are both
considered competitive necessities. Additionally, strong
Digital IQ is also tied to having a multi-year digital roadmap
and a way to consistently measure progress on the journey.
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07Effective use of business data
Getting value out of the data you capture often means using it to guide strategic
decisions like how to grow the business or whether to collaborate with competitors. And
executives admit it’s a real challenge in their organizations. More than challenges with
capturing data, they cite behavioral and skills barriers, such as understanding which
data to use and how it benefits their role, nearly as much as issues with data quality or
accuracy.4
Top-performing companies see more potential in making use of their data
than lower-performing ones. They see the most promise in third-party data (78%), cloud
application data (70%), social media data (69%), and location-aware data (64%).
08Proactive cybersecurity
Keeping pace with security and privacy issues is another ongoing challenge, and one
that all companies contend with in their ecosystems. As they add new technologies,
customers, partners, devices, and data, there are ever more interdependencies and
risks to address. That’s the baseline today. What’s different when it comes to Digital
IQ is the level of proactivity. Businesses need to consistently think about how their
cybersecurity strategies can help build brand, competitive advantage, and shareholder
value. Top-performing companies are more likely to proactively evaluate and plan for
security and privacy in digital enterprise projects. They also feel more prepared to
manage these risks (80%), compared with lower performers (64%). One way leading
companies do this is by routinely including risk managers and security leaders in
conversations about new product and service development, especially those taking
advantage of emerging technologies like the Internet of Things.
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09Digital roadmap
Rallying the business around a single, multi-year roadmap is another key practice that
we’ve been tracking since the inception of Digital IQ. It’s crucial to have the longer term
strategic plan at the forefront to help balance the more tactical, year-to-year priorities
that always arise in the annual planning and budgeting process. Here, we’ve seen
progress bottom out as digital has become more pervasive in the enterprise while at
the same time also more fragmented. Today, 53% of companies have a comprehensive
roadmap that includes business capabilities and processes, as well as digital and IT
components. Four years ago that figure was at 63%. The skills piece of the roadmap is
a serious challenge for many companies. Just 55% of executives said their organization
had all the technology skills needed to deliver on their enterprise vision.
Where are we headed? Businesses often
lack a cohesive digital roadmap
Source: PwC, 2015 Global Digital IQ®
Survey; Base: 1,988
Q: To what extent do you agree with the following statements about your operating model? We have a single, multi-year
digital enterprise roadmap that includes business capabilities and processes as well as digital and IT components.
60%
45%
30%
15%
0%
Africa Asia Central and
Eastern
Europe
Western
Europe
Latin
America
Middle East North
America
44%
59%
47%
50%
54%
9%
57%
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10Consistent measurement
Business leaders demand to see the value they’re achieving from digital investments.
Top-performing companies lead lower-performing ones here again (79% vs. 72%).
Demonstrating this requires a combination of traditional metrics (like ROI) to track
against growth goals, as well as newer ones for measuring more disruptive investments.
Boards, in particular, are taking a strong interest here. They’re expanding their focus
from solely risk-based metrics to more broad-based “cybermetrics,” homing in on the
10 to 15 most meaningful for the company, such as trends identified as a result of data
capture activities impacting company strategy.5
Tech skills one of biggest barriers
to reaching digital goals
Source: PwC, 2015 Global Digital IQ®
Survey; Base: 1,988
Q: To what extent do you agree with the following statements about organization and
skills? We have all the technology skills we need to execute our digital enterprise vision.
65%
60%
55%
50%
45%
TechnologyRetail and
consumer
Power
and
utilities
Industrial
products
Hospitality
and leisure
HealthcareFinancial
services
Entertainment,
media, and
communications
Energy
and
mining
Automotive
59%
47%
55%
57%
55%
61%
57%
52%
54%
63%
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Businesses have fully embraced digital, and they
expect their investments to drive growth and create
competitive advantage. Our Digital IQ analysis of
nearly 2,000 executives demonstrates that the goal
is attainable—if business leaders take a systematic
approach to their efforts. First, get a personal baseline
of where you think your organization stands with our
Digital IQ assessment. Then, consider these next steps:
1. Dig in to your Digital IQ.
Take the assessment with your business and IT
leadership team. We recently conducted a customized
Digital IQ benchmark of 125 global leaders of a large
industrial company. While their Digital IQ score was
quite strong, exploring each of the 10 attributes revealed
that they were significantly behind in the way they
communicate and develop a shared digital vision.
2. Conduct a digital strategy workshop.
Use the session to evaluate the areas for improvement
surfaced by your survey of company leaders. Also
discuss and develop a shared perspective on the:
§§ role of digital investments
§§ leadership and organizational roles needed to
drive digital, including responsibilities of the
CDO, CIO, CMO, and other key executives
§§ other internal disruptions that are occurring
but aren’t being directly addressed, such as
the organization’s increasingly distributed
but uncoordinated technology spending
3. Start a digital dialogue.
Consider an enterprise-wide Digital IQ benchmark
to serve as a way to begin engaging around digital
strategy with the full organization. Also think about
how to use technology—video, internal social media,
and mobile—to continue the digital conversation.
4. Develop a disruption strategy.
Create an explicit strategy and approach regarding
disruption. We are working with an energy company
with a strong desire to apply digital technologies
to reinvent their business years into the future.
However, when asked to articulate the attributes
of such a future business, they gravitated back to
more incremental goals, such as getting value from
all of the data they collect and improved operational
efficiencies, which are important but not disruptive.
5. Expand your ecosystems.
You can’t excel at digital growth, disrupt markets, or keep
up with tech talent alone. Digital innovation is emerging
from places your organization doesn’t likely frequent, such
as startup incubators, university labs, open source projects,
and maker communities. Now is the time to seek out and
experiment with an expanded set of the right relationships
to keep your ideas and skills fresh and flowing.
Find out your company’s Digital IQ
at www.pwc.com/digitaliq
Next steps for raising your Digital IQ
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Global survey respondent breakdown
29%
North America
14%
Latin America
4%
Middle East
and Africa
7%
Central and Eastern
Europe
24%
Western Europe
22%
Asia
We’ve been conducting Digital IQ since 2007 and this year marks our seventh annual survey of
business and IT executives globally. This year’s survey was conducted July through September
2015 and included 1,988 respondents from 51 countries. Responses were aggregated into
7 regions and 10 industries. Respondents were evenly divided between IT and business leaders.
Reflective of the distribution of respondents globally, 21% work in organizations with revenues
of $1 billion or greater and 52% have revenues between $500 million and $1 billion.
About PwC’s Digital IQ research
End notes
1	 PwC, 18th Annual Global CEO Survey, January 2015.
2 	Strategy, 2015 Growth Survey, June 2015.
3 	PwC, Digital IQ: Three surprising digital bets, January 2015.
4 	PwC, Global Data  Analytics Survey 2014: Big Decisions™, September 2014.
5 	PwC, Achieving excellence—Cybermetrics: what directors need to
know (Audit Committee Excellence Series), September 2015.
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PwC helps organisations and individuals create the value they’re looking for. We’re a network of firms in 157 countries with more than
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Authors Contacts
Chris Curran
Chief Technologist
Tel: +1 214 754 5055
chris.curran@pwc.com
Tom Puthiyamadam
Global Digital Services Leader
Tel: +1 646 471 1490
tomp@pwc.com
John Sviokla
Head of Global Thought Leadership
Tel: +1 617 530 5359
john.sviokla@pwc.com
Gerard Verweij
Technology Consulting Leader
Tel: +1 617 530 7015
gerard.verweij@pwc.com
Olaf Acker
Partner, Strategy
Tel: +49 170 2238 453
olaf.acker@strategyand.de.pwc.com
Dr. Rainer Bernnat
Partner, Strategy
Tel: +49 69 97167 414
rainer.bernnat@strategyand.de.pwc.com
David Clarke
Chief Experience Officer,
US Digital Services
Tel: +1 786 552 3211
clarke@pwc.com
Mike Cooke
Principal, Strategy
Tel: +1 312 578 4639
mike.cooke@pwc.com
Dan DiFilippo
Global and US Data
and Analytics Leader
Tel: +1 646 471 8426
dan.difilippo@pwc.com
David L Edelheit
Technology Consulting Leader,
Asia Pacific
Tel: +65 6236 4008
david.l.edelheit@sg.pwc.com
Matt Egol
Chief Strategy Officer,
Digital Services, Strategy
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  • 1. 2015 Global Digital IQ® Survey September 2015 Lessons from digital leaders 10 attributes driving stronger performance
  • 2. 22015 Global Digital IQ® Survey Will your digital strategy drive top-line growth or real disruption? Since 2007, our unique research has asked one simple question: What actions can leaders take to confirm their digital investments deliver and sustain value? To get to the answer, we study the practices and performance of global companies, drawn from the experience of nearly 2,000 business and technology executives. This year we have identified 10 critical attributes that correlate with stronger financial performance. Top-performing companies are more deliberate in their digital strategy, innovation, and execution. They are more likely to have CEO commitment, strategic clarity, and shared understanding. They are more apt to take a broad view when applying technology and identifying sources of innovation. And they are more prone to being skilled at turning their data into insight, proactive in cybersecurity, and consistent in measuring outcomes from digital investments. Those organizations that displayed these attributes—our Digital IQ® leaders— were twice as likely to achieve more rapid revenue and profit growth as the laggards in our study. In addition to establishing the direct linkage between digital investment and corporate performance, our research revealed important trends about the nature of disruption and the barriers organizations face in its wake. 1. Digital for today’s business—not tomorrow’s. Despite the market fervor, companies are not investing in technology to disrupt their own or other industries. They are almost entirely focused on applying digital to grow their existing business models and the short-sighted view is cause for concern. 2. Yet plenty of disruption occurring inside of organizations. Leadership’s desire to capitalize on digital technology is so strong that it’s disrupting the enterprise operating model, as evidenced by shifting spending patterns, new digital roles, and undefined working relationships. 3. And companies are held back by a slow-tech approach. Staying ahead of both market and internal disruption requires thinking and acting more like a nimble startup. Companies need to accelerate productive cross- functional relationships, how they learn and partner, and skills development. Our Digital IQ findings have never been more relevant. As organizations continue to invest heavily in digital technology, and customers, employees, shareholders, and boards raise their expectations, management teams are under pressure to translate that considerable investment into real returns. We believe that, first, leaders must have a clear understanding of today’s digital climate. Only then will they be equipped to set themselves up for superior performance in their current business—and ones they have yet to reimagine.
  • 3. 32015 Global Digital IQ® Survey Digital IQ leaders are twice as likely to achieve rapid revenue and profit growth as the laggards in our study.
  • 4. 42015 Global Digital IQ® Survey What do the digital signs reveal about your business? Our research reveals clear signs that 2015 is a tipping point. While we see some regional differences across the globe, business leaders are poised to unlock real competitive advantage through their digital investments. Here’s why: CEOs are all-in. The vast majority (86%) of CEOs we spoke with in our annual survey felt it was crucial to champion the use of digital technologies.1 Are they walking the talk? Yes, according to the nearly three-quarters of business and IT executives in our Digital IQ survey. Even more telling is the significant uptick we’ve seen over the last two years: just 57% said their CEO champions digital in 2013, compared with 71% in 2014, and 73% this year. A regional standout here is the Middle East where 84% of executives point to a CEO champion in their organization. Digital disconnect: how leaders see digital Source: PwC, 2015 Global Digital IQ® Survey; Base: 1,988 Q: How does your organization define digital? Select up to two statements that best describe your company. Aggressive investment is occurring. The CEO mandate is influencing significant investment in digital: Nearly one-third of respondents (31%) say their companies are investing more than 15% of revenue into technology investments that span all areas of the business, not just IT. This is considerably higher than the single-digit spending forecasts that technology analysts typically make. Regionally, executives in Africa (42%) and Southeast Asia (40%) are most likely to be investing more than 15% of revenue. Confidence continues to rise. Two-thirds of respondents rate their companies as having a strong Digital IQ, slightly up from 64% last year. Executives in Asia (64%), Scandinavia (59%), and Western Europe (54%) are less confident. Synonymous with IT Customer-facing technology activities Technology investments in all parts of business Technology innovation- related activities Data andanalytics activities 62% 50% 14% 11% 13% 41% 41% 25% 29% 33% 41% 45% 46% 37% 49% CIO CMO CDO
  • 5. 52015 Global Digital IQ® Survey Lack of a common definition. We asked executives to choose the two most-apt definitions of digital for their business. While the majority (53%) think of it as the activities related to technology innovation, and a large share (41%) see it as the investments made to integrate technology into all parts of the business, a sizable number define it as IT (37%) or customer-facing activities (36%). CIOs and CDOs tend to be on the same page, but CMOs have different priorities and expectations. The regional picture is also mixed, with Central and Eastern European executives most often viewing digital as IT, while those in North America (48%) and the Middle East (69%) most often view it more broadly. New and evolving roles. Where enterprise technology used to be the sole domain of the Chief Information Officer (CIO), there’s a shift happening in many organizations, with the traditional CIO role fragmenting across new and existing leaders. Some companies are appointing Chief Digital Officers (CDOs) to lead digital transformation efforts, as evidenced by a forthcoming PwC Strategy study, Digitizing the business: The 2015 Chief Digital Officer Study. Executives in our survey indicate that while many CIOs predominantly lead all digital efforts today (40%), there will be a drop-off in three years’ time (35%). At the same time, executives say they expect the CIO will ramp up the internal focus on IT and innovation from 32% today to 36% in three years. In some regions the marginalization of the CIO role is even more pronounced: In North America (44% today), CIOs who have responsibility for digital across the business is expected to sharply drop to 31% in three years. Distributed technology spending. The majority of spending (68%) is now coming from budgets outside of IT’s, a significant increase from 47% the prior year. In Central and Eastern Europe (73%) and North America (71%), an even greater share of spending is happening outside of the CIO’s control. And just who’s ultimately responsible for investments also has changed, with the CEO (34%) at the forefront, followed by the CIO (27%), the CDO (14%), and the CFO (13%). CIOs in North America and Western Europe are more likely to be responsible for digital investment, while in the Middle East it is CDOs. CIO back to the back office? Tech investment increasing outside of IT Source: PwC, 2015 Global Digital IQ® Survey, 2014 Digital IQ® Survey; Bases: 1,988, 1,494 2015: Q: In the last 12 months, what percentage of your organization’s digital enterprise budget was spent in the following areas?; 2014: In the last 12 months, of all the spending in your organization on technology, what approximate percentage of it was spent in the following functions? Source: PwC, 2015 Global Digital IQ® Survey; Base: 1,988 Q: Which of the following best describes your CIO’s key responsibilities today? In three years? 2014 Digital IQ® Survey 2015 Digital IQ® Survey Lead IT efforts and innovation Lead IT efforts onlyLead all digital efforts 68% 47% 29%32% 40% 29% 36%35% Today In three years
  • 6. 62015 Global Digital IQ® Survey We see signs that digital is creating significant disruption inside of organizations.
  • 7. 72015 Global Digital IQ® Survey Collectively, these signals tell us that businesses have raised the stakes when it comes to digital. There’s plenty of talk about disruption, and what it takes to challenge the status quo. But, in fact, that’s not where companies have put their time or money. Just 1% of executives said their number-one expectation for digital was to disrupt their own or other industries. (When asked to rank the top-three ways digital will provide value to the business, the number rises to 8%.) Instead, they seek more immediate returns: 45% say the top priority is growing revenue; 25% expect digital to create better customer experiences, and 12% see it increasing profits. In short, digital is a way to grow today’s business, not necessarily tomorrow’s. Leaving aside questions of short- sightedness—for now—we wondered: Are they succeeding? Have they focused their efforts in the most effective way, especially given the hypercompetitive environment in which they find themselves? According to a recent study by PwC Strategy2 , executives continue to reiterate their pursuit of growth, but they also admit to lacking confidence in their ability to achieve targets. Chasing digital value: what businesses really want Disruption is top of mind—but bottom of investment priorities Source: PwC, 2015 Global Digital IQ® Survey; Base: 1,988 Q: What value do you expect from your digital enterprise investments? Select the top three in ranked order. First-ranked. 45% Grow revenue 25% Create better customer experiences 12% Increase profits 5% Innovate our products 4% Achieve cost savings 2% Improve talent retention and recruitment 2% Enhance brand and reputation 2% Improve decision making through better data analytics 1% Disrupt our own or other industries 1% Combat new industry entrants 1% Other
  • 8. 82015 Global Digital IQ® Survey Digital IQ 10 attributes that fuel your digital growth engine
  • 9. 92015 Global Digital IQ® Survey 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 Our CEO is a champion for digital. The executives responsible for digital are involved in setting high- level business strategy. Business-aligned digital strategy is agreed upon and shared at the C-level. Business and digital strategy are well communicated enterprise-wide. We actively engage with external sources to gather new ideas for applying emerging technologies. Digital enterprise investments are made primarily for competitive advantage. We effectively utilize all the data we capture to drive business value. We proactively evaluate and plan for security and privacy risks in digital enterprise projects. We have a single, multi-year digital enterprise roadmap that includes business capabilities and processes as well as digital and IT components. We consistently measure outcomes from our digital technology investments.
  • 10. 102015 Global Digital IQ® Survey 77.2 Global average 75.8 76.6 75.6 77.4 77.3 76.6 79.5 77.8 77.6 77.1 Automotive Healthcare Energyandmining Hospitalityandleisure Entertainment,media andcommunications Industrialproducts Powerandutilities Financialservices Retailandconsumer Technology Our Digital IQ analysis reveals that despite high confidence in their capabilities, companies fall short in linking digital to tangible gains. But there is a path forward. Based upon the responses from the nearly 2,000 executives in our survey, we analyzed more than 25 factors, spanning strategy, innovation, and execution. Ultimately, we isolated the 10 attributes that correlate with stronger financial performance; collectively these make up our overall Digital IQ score. Companies with high Digital IQs (those in the top quartile) were twice as likely to achieve rapid revenue growth and profit growth as the laggards in our study. Our Digital IQ score provides a consistent way to assess how well organizations are capturing the value they expect from technology investments—in particular the growth that so many seek. We use Digital IQ as a tool for quantifying and benchmarking how well positioned companies are to realize returns—as individual organizations, within an industry, or compared with other peer groups. While the overall score is directionally important, the real strength of Digital IQ comes when evaluating scores for each of the 10 attributes to identify differences in a company’s digital understanding, priorities, and gaps. Source: PwC, 2015 Global Digital IQ® Survey; Base: 1,988 What’s your Digital IQ?
  • 11. 112015 Global Digital IQ® Survey Sharpen digital strategy— from the boardroom to the breakroom Given the strategic importance of digital, it follows that four of the 10 Digital IQ attributes fall within the strategy pillar. The foremost is CEO leadership, which must be backed up with ownership by the digital leader and rest of executive team, then the ongoing engagement with the rest of the organization.
  • 12. 122015 Global Digital IQ® Survey CEOs have disruption on the radar, but did rest of exec team miss the memo? Financial value Disruption 54% 16% CEO 50% 6% CFO 47% 8% CIO 54% 4% COO 67% 3% CDO 44% 7% CMO 45% 4% CTO Source: PwC, 2015 Global Digital IQ® Survey; Base: 1,988; Q: What value do you expect from your digital enterprise investments? Select the top three in ranked order. (Grow revenue, increase profits; disrupt own or other industries; combat new industry entrants.) 01CEO champion Tracking the relationship between CEO leadership and technology value has been an area of Digital IQ study since its inception. In fact, we identified a correlation between a CEO champion and stronger financial performance back in 2007 with our inaugural study. The CEO is the natural leader as the focus on technology has shifted from operational efficiency to growth, and the stakeholders and conversations have changed. CEOs have ambitious expectations for digital, prioritizing disruption much more highly than the rest of the executive team. Company boards are also more engaged in digital strategy. In our forthcoming 2015 Annual Corporate Directors’ Survey, due in October 2015, we’ve found that boards are spending more time discussing technology strategy and issues (especially cybersecurity). While more directors (25% this year, up from 18% in 2012) now meet with the company’s CIO at every formal board meeting, this signals an opportunity for CEOs and their digital leaders to expand the discussion beyond cybersecurity.
  • 13. 132015 Global Digital IQ® Survey 02Digital leaders set strategy CEOs may set the tone and vision for digital, but those responsible for operationalizing digital, often the CIO or CDO, are instrumental in setting high-level business strategy. This is especially true in companies where digital leaders are responsible for a significant share of the business. For some organizations, one effective way to foster co-development of strategy is through new organizational structures. A global healthcare company, for example, created a digital council that brings together the company’s dozen CIOs and CMOs. Instead of tackling issues in their respective business units, they work together on both digital strategy and execution. To truly be effective such a council must be collaborative and cross-functional, made up of those in both IT and business roles. 03Executive team engaged Beyond the CDO and CIO, the rest of the C-suite must also weigh in on—then buy-in to—the strategy. Being on the proverbial same-page means there’s greater likelihood to maximize investments, enabling the organization to identify areas of overlap and bring to light any resource gaps that could derail efforts. As we’ve seen in the last several years of our study, productive relationships among the executive team are essential to maximizing value from investments. This collaboration is especially vital when it comes to the CIO and CMO. Companies may have their work cut out for achieving a productive partnership: This relationship is the weakest one of the nine relationship pairs we track, with 54% rating it as strong; in comparison, a strong CIO-CEO relationship comes in at 70%.
  • 14. 142015 Global Digital IQ® Survey Digital spending for customer efforts surpasses IT 04Strategy-sharing across the organization Finally, strategy isn’t complete without engagement by everyone in the organization. We’ve seen the importance of this simple but powerful practice over the last three years. While today 69% of companies say that business and digital strategies are shared enterprise-wide, it hasn’t always been this way. Last year companies put that figure at 55%, and the prior year it was just 50%. Business leaders are often using technology to help them get the word out and mobilize employees around the strategy. They’re filming videos, taking to social media, and leveraging smartphones, not only to share the strategy but to create a dialogue about how it affects their employees. Source: PwC, 2015 Global Digital IQ® Survey; Base: 1,988 Q: In the last 12 months, what percentage of your organization’s digital enterprise budget was spent in the following areas? 45% 40% 35% 30% 25% Africa Asia Central and Eastern Europe Latin America Middle East North America Western Europe Other functionsIT Marketing and sales 32% 36% 34% 39% 31% 28% 35% 34% 43% 27% 40% 29% 33% 37% 36% 39% 29% 30% 33% 37% 32%
  • 15. 152015 Global Digital IQ® Survey Accelerate innovation with an expansive view of sources but a diligent business focus While many considerations guide a company’s innovation strategy for shorter-term growth and longer- term differentiation, there are two key factors that inform Digital IQ: looking for innovation in new and unexplored places, then decisively acting upon those that are most competitively advantageous.
  • 16. 162015 Global Digital IQ® Survey 71% of digital disruptors continually look for opportunities to digitize the business, compared with 63% of other companies. 05Outside-in approach Top-performing companies take an outside-in approach to innovation, leveraging the considerable knowledge base of other innovators, such as vendors or customers, to uncover and apply new ideas for using technology. They’re also more likely to evaluate many emerging technologies, characterizing their approach to adoption as one that’s technology-driven (69% vs. 50% for other companies), as opposed to influenced by the business or vendors. Our analysis also revealed that companies more keenly focused on business model innovation—the 8% of companies looking to disrupt their own or other industries—take an even more rigorous outside-in approach. They have a broad view of innovation and continually look for opportunities to digitize the business. Seventy-one percent of digital disruptors do this, compared with 63% of other companies.
  • 17. 172015 Global Digital IQ® Survey 06Driven by competitive advantage Actively engaging and learning from many outside sources creates an opportunity for market differentiation. With so many potential ideas, you must filter and prioritize those that hold the most promise for the business. The emerging technologies that land on each company’s short-list will vary widely, but those that executives see as being most strategically important in three to five years are cybersecurity, data mining and analysis, data visualization, digital delivery, and private cloud. We also see less mainstream choices like NoSQL databases, sensors for instrumenting the business, and enterprise wearables as important bets for competitiveness.3 Tech advances most influence emerging technology adoption Source: PwC, 2015 Global Digital IQ® Survey; Base: 1,988 Q: How do you characterize your approach to adopting new and emerging technologies? 100% 75% 50% 25% 0% Technology driven Business driven Vendor driven TechnologyRetail and consumer Power and utilities Industrial products Hospitality and leisure HealthcareFinancial services Entertainment, media, and communications Energy and mining Automotive
  • 18. 182015 Global Digital IQ® Survey Amp up execution with critical capabilities and a digital roadmap While a company’s capabilities must be in lock-step with its business strategy, and will be just as distinctive, two capabilities are integral to Digital IQ: how you utilize data and how you act upon cybersecurity and privacy are both considered competitive necessities. Additionally, strong Digital IQ is also tied to having a multi-year digital roadmap and a way to consistently measure progress on the journey.
  • 19. 192015 Global Digital IQ® Survey 07Effective use of business data Getting value out of the data you capture often means using it to guide strategic decisions like how to grow the business or whether to collaborate with competitors. And executives admit it’s a real challenge in their organizations. More than challenges with capturing data, they cite behavioral and skills barriers, such as understanding which data to use and how it benefits their role, nearly as much as issues with data quality or accuracy.4 Top-performing companies see more potential in making use of their data than lower-performing ones. They see the most promise in third-party data (78%), cloud application data (70%), social media data (69%), and location-aware data (64%). 08Proactive cybersecurity Keeping pace with security and privacy issues is another ongoing challenge, and one that all companies contend with in their ecosystems. As they add new technologies, customers, partners, devices, and data, there are ever more interdependencies and risks to address. That’s the baseline today. What’s different when it comes to Digital IQ is the level of proactivity. Businesses need to consistently think about how their cybersecurity strategies can help build brand, competitive advantage, and shareholder value. Top-performing companies are more likely to proactively evaluate and plan for security and privacy in digital enterprise projects. They also feel more prepared to manage these risks (80%), compared with lower performers (64%). One way leading companies do this is by routinely including risk managers and security leaders in conversations about new product and service development, especially those taking advantage of emerging technologies like the Internet of Things.
  • 20. 202015 Global Digital IQ® Survey 09Digital roadmap Rallying the business around a single, multi-year roadmap is another key practice that we’ve been tracking since the inception of Digital IQ. It’s crucial to have the longer term strategic plan at the forefront to help balance the more tactical, year-to-year priorities that always arise in the annual planning and budgeting process. Here, we’ve seen progress bottom out as digital has become more pervasive in the enterprise while at the same time also more fragmented. Today, 53% of companies have a comprehensive roadmap that includes business capabilities and processes, as well as digital and IT components. Four years ago that figure was at 63%. The skills piece of the roadmap is a serious challenge for many companies. Just 55% of executives said their organization had all the technology skills needed to deliver on their enterprise vision. Where are we headed? Businesses often lack a cohesive digital roadmap Source: PwC, 2015 Global Digital IQ® Survey; Base: 1,988 Q: To what extent do you agree with the following statements about your operating model? We have a single, multi-year digital enterprise roadmap that includes business capabilities and processes as well as digital and IT components. 60% 45% 30% 15% 0% Africa Asia Central and Eastern Europe Western Europe Latin America Middle East North America 44% 59% 47% 50% 54% 9% 57%
  • 21. 212015 Global Digital IQ® Survey 10Consistent measurement Business leaders demand to see the value they’re achieving from digital investments. Top-performing companies lead lower-performing ones here again (79% vs. 72%). Demonstrating this requires a combination of traditional metrics (like ROI) to track against growth goals, as well as newer ones for measuring more disruptive investments. Boards, in particular, are taking a strong interest here. They’re expanding their focus from solely risk-based metrics to more broad-based “cybermetrics,” homing in on the 10 to 15 most meaningful for the company, such as trends identified as a result of data capture activities impacting company strategy.5 Tech skills one of biggest barriers to reaching digital goals Source: PwC, 2015 Global Digital IQ® Survey; Base: 1,988 Q: To what extent do you agree with the following statements about organization and skills? We have all the technology skills we need to execute our digital enterprise vision. 65% 60% 55% 50% 45% TechnologyRetail and consumer Power and utilities Industrial products Hospitality and leisure HealthcareFinancial services Entertainment, media, and communications Energy and mining Automotive 59% 47% 55% 57% 55% 61% 57% 52% 54% 63%
  • 22. 222015 Global Digital IQ® Survey Businesses have fully embraced digital, and they expect their investments to drive growth and create competitive advantage. Our Digital IQ analysis of nearly 2,000 executives demonstrates that the goal is attainable—if business leaders take a systematic approach to their efforts. First, get a personal baseline of where you think your organization stands with our Digital IQ assessment. Then, consider these next steps: 1. Dig in to your Digital IQ. Take the assessment with your business and IT leadership team. We recently conducted a customized Digital IQ benchmark of 125 global leaders of a large industrial company. While their Digital IQ score was quite strong, exploring each of the 10 attributes revealed that they were significantly behind in the way they communicate and develop a shared digital vision. 2. Conduct a digital strategy workshop. Use the session to evaluate the areas for improvement surfaced by your survey of company leaders. Also discuss and develop a shared perspective on the: §§ role of digital investments §§ leadership and organizational roles needed to drive digital, including responsibilities of the CDO, CIO, CMO, and other key executives §§ other internal disruptions that are occurring but aren’t being directly addressed, such as the organization’s increasingly distributed but uncoordinated technology spending 3. Start a digital dialogue. Consider an enterprise-wide Digital IQ benchmark to serve as a way to begin engaging around digital strategy with the full organization. Also think about how to use technology—video, internal social media, and mobile—to continue the digital conversation. 4. Develop a disruption strategy. Create an explicit strategy and approach regarding disruption. We are working with an energy company with a strong desire to apply digital technologies to reinvent their business years into the future. However, when asked to articulate the attributes of such a future business, they gravitated back to more incremental goals, such as getting value from all of the data they collect and improved operational efficiencies, which are important but not disruptive. 5. Expand your ecosystems. You can’t excel at digital growth, disrupt markets, or keep up with tech talent alone. Digital innovation is emerging from places your organization doesn’t likely frequent, such as startup incubators, university labs, open source projects, and maker communities. Now is the time to seek out and experiment with an expanded set of the right relationships to keep your ideas and skills fresh and flowing. Find out your company’s Digital IQ at www.pwc.com/digitaliq Next steps for raising your Digital IQ
  • 23. 232015 Global Digital IQ® Survey Global survey respondent breakdown 29% North America 14% Latin America 4% Middle East and Africa 7% Central and Eastern Europe 24% Western Europe 22% Asia We’ve been conducting Digital IQ since 2007 and this year marks our seventh annual survey of business and IT executives globally. This year’s survey was conducted July through September 2015 and included 1,988 respondents from 51 countries. Responses were aggregated into 7 regions and 10 industries. Respondents were evenly divided between IT and business leaders. Reflective of the distribution of respondents globally, 21% work in organizations with revenues of $1 billion or greater and 52% have revenues between $500 million and $1 billion. About PwC’s Digital IQ research End notes 1 PwC, 18th Annual Global CEO Survey, January 2015. 2 Strategy, 2015 Growth Survey, June 2015. 3 PwC, Digital IQ: Three surprising digital bets, January 2015. 4 PwC, Global Data Analytics Survey 2014: Big Decisions™, September 2014. 5 PwC, Achieving excellence—Cybermetrics: what directors need to know (Audit Committee Excellence Series), September 2015.
  • 24. © 2015 PwC. All rights reserved. PwC refers to the PwC network and/or one or more of its member firms, each of which is a separate legal entity. Please see www.pwc.com/structure for further details. Digital IQ® is a trademark of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP US. PwC helps organisations and individuals create the value they’re looking for. We’re a network of firms in 157 countries with more than 195,000 people who are committed to delivering quality in assurance, tax and advisory services. Find out more and tell us what matters to you by visiting us at www.pwc.com. PricewaterhouseCoopers has exercised reasonable care in the collecting, processing, and reporting of this information but has not independently verified, validated, or audited the data to verify the accuracy or completeness of the information. PricewaterhouseCoopers gives no express or implied warranties, including but not limited to any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose or use and shall not be liable to any entity or person using this document, or have any liability with respect to this document. This report is for general purposes only, and is not a substitute for consultation with professional advisors. 78677-2016 LL www.pwc.com/digitalIQ To have a deeper conversation about Digital IQ: Authors Contacts Chris Curran Chief Technologist Tel: +1 214 754 5055 chris.curran@pwc.com Tom Puthiyamadam Global Digital Services Leader Tel: +1 646 471 1490 tomp@pwc.com John Sviokla Head of Global Thought Leadership Tel: +1 617 530 5359 john.sviokla@pwc.com Gerard Verweij Technology Consulting Leader Tel: +1 617 530 7015 gerard.verweij@pwc.com Olaf Acker Partner, Strategy Tel: +49 170 2238 453 olaf.acker@strategyand.de.pwc.com Dr. Rainer Bernnat Partner, Strategy Tel: +49 69 97167 414 rainer.bernnat@strategyand.de.pwc.com David Clarke Chief Experience Officer, US Digital Services Tel: +1 786 552 3211 clarke@pwc.com Mike Cooke Principal, Strategy Tel: +1 312 578 4639 mike.cooke@pwc.com Dan DiFilippo Global and US Data and Analytics Leader Tel: +1 646 471 8426 dan.difilippo@pwc.com David L Edelheit Technology Consulting Leader, Asia Pacific Tel: +65 6236 4008 david.l.edelheit@sg.pwc.com Matt Egol Chief Strategy Officer, Digital Services, Strategy Tel: +1 212 551 6716 matthew.egol@pwc.com Andrea Fishman Principal Tel: +1 773 598 4401 andrea.fishman@pwc.com John Riccio Digital Services Leader, Australia Tel: +61 3 8603 4968 john.riccio@au.pwc.com