IT budgets are notoriously and perpetually tight, and CIOs almost always have too much to do and too little budget with which to do it. Given an unlimited budget, however, the practical, the whimsical and the seemingly fantastical become possible.

Perhaps depressingly and definitely not surprisingly, bandwidth was mentioned by all five CIOs. Says BCX CIO Hugo Winterbach: “I'd acquire my own low orbit satellite communications system, equip my user community with the latest and greatest wireless broadband, and connect it to the satellite system. Then I'd never hear the words ‘slow systems', ‘bad response', or ‘not enough bandwidth' again.”