Leveraging IT to help grow their company’s business tops the agenda for Chief Information Officers, according to a survey of some 1,400 CIOs just released by Gartner. While such core issues as security and cost controls remain a concern for CIOs, the Gartner study revealed that making their businesses easier for customers to deal with by improving business processes is a top business priority for the second consecutive year. Controlling enterprise operating costs and security technologies ranked second among the CIO’s ranking of top ten business and top ten technology priorities respectively.