A recent Gartner study found that leaders in infrastructure and operations should focus on projects surrounding mobile delivery for IT systems, as well as modern, advanced analytics systems.

The survey, "Flipping to Digital Leadership: The 2015 CIO Agenda," polled more than 2,800 CIOs that accounted for $397 billion of IT spend and $202.5 billion of infrastructure and operational spend, about their top priorities in IT investments, according to Gartner.

Following are four insights revolving around infrastructure and operations leaders that Gartner identified in its survey.