Share of digitally advanced companies in Poland higher than world’s average

The percentage of digitally advanced companies in Poland is 19 percent, while in the world it is 11.6 percent. - according to the '2020 Global Technology Leadership Study' conducted by the consulting company Deloitte, published on Wednesday.

As we read in the information, the "2020 Global Technology Leadership Study" was conducted in 69 countries (including Poland), and over 1,300 people representing 22 industries participated in it. Its purpose - as we read - was to look at how technology departments in companies function and how the role of people responsible for them is changing. It was noted that this is the next edition of the survey previously known as the 'Global CIO Survey'.

In the study, the special attention was paid to organizations representing the so-called digital avant-garde, i.e. companies that have a digital strategy and an IT department that understands business needs and actively responds to the ongoing digitization and the development of modern technologies.

"In the global survey, digital leaders accounted for 11.6 percent of respondents, and in Poland almost twice as many, as much as 19 percent," Daniel Martyniuk, one of the authors of the report, partner and leader of Technology Strategy & Transformation at Deloitte,said

He added that the global results of the survey show that companies representing the digital avant-garde are more likely than their less mature competitors to focus on innovation (66 percent vs. 44 percent), growth (53 percent  vs. 43 percent) and customers (60 percent vs. 53 percent).

According to the survey, in the case of Polish respondents, both technologically advanced companies and other organizations indicate the client as a business priority (67 percent vs. 63 percent). It was noted, however, that while the digital avant-garde focuses on innovation (53 percent vs. 40 percent) and cybersecurity (33 percent vs. 11 percent), organizations with a standard level of technological development pay more attention to performance (48 percent vs. 40 percent) and cost reduction (44 percent vs. 20 percent). Comparing the leaders with the rest of companies in Poland, it can be seen that members of the digital avant-garde more often pay attention to cloud solutions (67 percent vs. 54 percent) and cybersecurity (47 percent vs. 22 percent).

(PAP)