Every year, just for a laugh, and more seriously, to get a rough gauge of where the country's IT spenders are headed in the new year, Brainstorm asks local CIOs what they would spend money on if they had an unlimited budget.

The first year we had requests ranging from low-orbit satellite communications systems to helicopters (to circumvent the traffic). Last year, our interviewees had bandwidth (as usual), licence costs, fewer vendors to deal with, business process re-engineering and making life easier on their minds.