Executives expect information technology (IT) to play a significant role in business growth and competitiveness, a shift that will accelerate in 2006, according to a worldwide survey of 1,400 Chief Information Officers (CIOs) by Gartner Executive Programmes (EXP), a unit of Gartner. CIOs will come under increased pressure in 2006 to perform whilst they transform their IT organisation to become more externally focussed, the survey has found