To remain relevant, IT managers need to wake up and admit they work in business, not IT, Gartner's leading analysts said at the keynote address at the Gartner Symposium in Sydney.
Companies are shying away from outsourcing 'megadeals' in favour of spreading smaller contracts between several suppliers.
The Bric countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) dominate a list ranking the top 30 global offshoring locations.
Gartner analysts predict there will be a large-scale shift in technology influence toward consumers and away from central corporate IT departments.
As a few hardware and software suppliers come to increasingly dominate, companies must use caution and hang onto their existing equipment as long as possible, Gartner advises
On the odd occasion where I have seen the results of surveys of knowledge workers where they are asked to rank the barriers to the adoption of knowledge management inside their organisation, one word keeps popping up at the top of the list again and again: culture.
With the benefits of mobile data access well and truly taken for granted, the spectre of several false starts is finally far behind the market for smaller smartphone and PDA styled mobile devices.
Is our ability to manage information keeping pace with the growing reams of stuff we're being bombarded with?
Strategic planning is more important than ever now the trend towards utility or on-demand computing is introducing a new class of IT mistake.
If you think managing the risk of IT projects is all about throwing everything over the fence to an external supplier, think again.
A leading analyst has lashed companies over their inability to properly implement customer relationship management systems, claiming failure rates in some areas are up around the 75-80 percent mark.
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