Leap ForwardOrganizations that adopt mobile technologies can expect to achieve operational improvements and open up new business opportunities within, at the edge of, and outside the traditional boundaries of the enterprise. |
Leap ForwardOrganizations that adopt mobile technologies can expect to achieve operational improvements and open up new business opportunities within, at the edge of, and outside the traditional boundaries of the enterprise. |
Platform of OpportunityThe Web as platform will enable firms to collaborate and manage relationships more effectively, deliver more value to new and existing markets, improve software development processes and products, and more fully integrate Web and mobile technologies. |
In this issue of Cutter Benchmark Review, we do our part in unlocking the mystery of Gen-Yers/Net-Geners. We examine the powerful trend toward further integration of technology into everyday productivity and the creative processes of this highly innovative generation. Plus, we discuss ways in which we can successfully integrate these individuals into our organizations to the benefit of all involved.
In these five years of charting IT budgets and the budgeting process, we have documented the roller-coaster ride that IT shops around the globe have been on as things went from good times to perhaps the greatest economic crisis ever to strike the global economy to now slowly and gingerly climbing back out of the recession. Because we have been able to keep our team of experts intact and to maintain the core set of survey questions we ask of the respondents, we have learned quite a bit about the manner in which modern organizations react (and should react) to these kinds of events. We have learned, for example that the knee-jerk reaction typical of past crises whereby the firm would slash IT budgets seeking to "trim the fat" and "reduce overhead" wasn't exactly the case. In last year's survey, we found that "while organizations are indeed cutting projects and limiting their exposure by reducing investments in IT, they are also limiting reductions in the IT shop as much as possible knowing that IT assets and knowledge lost during a downturn cannot be readily rebuilt and scaled once the economy turns. As a consequence, the shape that this downturn has been taking for IT and IT professionals is likely different than the historical pattern of deep cost-cutting measures."
Bound for FailureGetting ready to venture into an emerging market? Good luck. Emerging markets lack sound infrastructure, present legal and regulatory constraints, and pose security and business continuity concerns. Add in the fact that their consumers have low purchasing power, and the chances of success get very slim. |