A third of respondents agreed that open source solutions will make IT "progressively less expensive," while 19 percent said that cloud computing was also an immediate priority. In addition, 17 percent of CIOs considered crowdsourcing to be important to their organisation at present. However, 44 percent believed that the government's proposed app store was a long way from being fully functional.

Nearly half (45 percent) of CIOs said that a lack of human and technology resources was the main obstacle to achieving progress in their IT projects. However, 38 percent are more positive about budget constraints, saying that they can still achieve their goals by streamlining processes and embracing new collaboration and on demand technologies.

Simon Godfrey, director of business development and government relations at SAP UK&I, said: "The message to the incoming government is loud and clear: ICT needs to be closer aligned to organisational needs. There needs to be more guidance on how to do more with less and a faster move to simplified and shared services that reduce complexity and drive efficiencies for the public."