Changes in informatization strategies of Polish companies and institutions in reaction to the economic crisis. Summary of the surveys from the years 2009–2011

The paper discusses results of comparative surveys from years 2009–2011 which aimed at determining how the recent economic crisis influenced informatization strategies in Polish companies and institutions. The obtained results supported a working hypothesis that the economic crisis affected — to smaller or greater extent — short- and long-term informatization strategies in majority of companies or institutions. Even if relative importance of identified changes, intensity of their visible symptoms or areas of IT applications where they were the most noticeable differed from year to year, those variations were minor and concerned some elements of informatization strategies and of IT applications only. Details are included in this paper.