CIO Top 10 Predictions - IDC

 

Prediction 1:

In the Next Two Years, Over 70% of CIOs Will Change Their Primary Role from Directly Managing IT to Become Innovation Partners Who Deliver Information Insights and Value-Added Services to the Enterprise

 

Prediction 2:

Before 2017, Only 40% of CIOs Will Rise to the Challenge from CXOs to Partner in Strategic Planning by Producing Business-Enhancing Insights from Big Data and Analytics

 

Prediction 3:

70% of CIOs Will Increase Enterprise Exposure to Risk to Dramatically Reduce IT Costs and Accelerate Business Agility Through Increased Cloud Adoption

 

Prediction 4:

Enterprise Business Mobility Will Require 60% of CIOs by 2017 to Support an Agile Architecture with a Diverse Mix of Cloud-Based Interfaces for Legacy and Next-Generation Mobile Applications

 

Prediction 5:

The Demographic Shift to Young and Mobile Customers Will Require 80% of CIOs in Consumer-Facing Businesses to Integrate IT with Public Social Networks by 2015

 

Prediction 6:

By 2015, 3rd Platform Requirements Will Drive 60% of CIOs to Use Enterprise Architecture as a Required IT Tool to Support Continuous Change and Business Innovation, But Only 40% Will Deploy EA Effectively

 

Prediction 7:

By 2015, 60% of CIO Security Budgets for Increasingly Vulnerable Legacy Systems Will Be 30–40% Too Small to Fund Enterprise Threat Assessments While Maintaining Existing Reactive Security Investments

 

Prediction 8:

By 2017, the Transfer of 3rd Platform Investments from IT to Line-of-Business Budgets Will Require 60% of CIOs to Reduce the Cost of Infrastructure and Operations to Focus on Business Innovation and Value

 

Prediction 9:

By 2016, 80% of the IT Budget Will Be Based on Providing Service Integration for a Broad Portfolio of Internally and Externally Sourced IT and Business Services

 

Prediction 10:

By 2018, Adoption of 3rd Platform IT Technologies Will Redefine 90% of IT Roles. Effective IT Talent Management Will Be Key to Realizing 3rd Platform Business Value.

 

Drivers for the CIO Top 10 Predictions

·         Intense Competition for Analytics-Based Information Intelligence

·         Inversion of the Make-Sell to Sense-and-Respond Business Model

·         Borderless Anytime-Anywhere Business

·         In Mature Economies, an Aging Population and High Joblessness Among the Young

·         Migration of Skilled IT Workers to Cities and Global Business Hubs

·         Ubiquitous Mobile and Socially Connected Lifestyle

·         Increasing Workforce Displacement Due to IT Automation

·         Rapid Emergence of Cloud-Based Sourcing and Services

·         Logarithmic Jump in the Number of IT Devices and Interfaces

·         Explosion of Data and Insights from Smart Analytics