What percentage of your IT budget is allocated to research and development (R&D) initiatives?

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Chief Information Officer in Government6 months ago

About 3% this year, depending a lot on what kind of projects we decide to implement

Director in Manufacturing7 months ago

Highly dependent on how businesses have been performing. Sometimes less than 1%, most I can recall ever seeing was about 3.5%. Our total budget all in was about $110million, and lowest $66 million

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