Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
A new new Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) study has found that overall success rates for business service management (BSM) initiatives are high, with 89% of respondents indicating that their BSM initiatives met or exceeded expectations. The study also uncovered the top factors that helped these real-world organizations avoid failure and achieve success with their BSM…
Utilization of Rapidly Developing Economies The percentage of respondents who said their company plans to make greater use of rapidly developing economies (RDE) in their innovation activities in the year ahead jumped to 45% in 2009 from 37% in 2008; consistent with a growing sensitivity to costs. By region, Asia-Pacific companies have the most aggressive…
The Boston Consulting Group’s (BCG’s) sixth annual global survey and report on innovation, Innovation 2009: Making Hard Decisions in the Downturn, reveals that, not surprisingly, economic concerns are weighing on many companies’ innovation plans. A significant percentage of companies plan to reduce innovation investment in 2009—and the percentage that plan to increase spending is at…
Despite the overall decline in IT spending, companies are still investing in technologies that help control costs and enable businesses to work smarter. This according to an Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) report, At the Edge of the Storm: IT Investments from Jan/08 through Feb/09. The findings suggest that while IT spending overall is on the…
Insider misuse is not necessarily malicious behavior. Individuals misusing the organization’s computing resources are for the most part not doing so with the intent to harm the organization. They may just be attempting to “get the job done.” For example, an employee may use his personal laptop to bring work home over the weekend in…
There is a significant gap between this first group and the bottom six categories. Only 25% or fewer of our respondents considered these as major threats. This group includes: Unauthorized blogging or participating in message boards concerning the organization’s business; Instant messaging using personal accounts; Non-work-related Web browsing; and Using the organization’s email system for…
Outside of the West, IT spending will be in single digits; not nearly as anemic as in the US, UK, and Europe. The continued erosion of the global economy, including the prospect of negative GDP growth in many major countries, has led IDC to update its forecast for worldwide IT spending in 2009. The IDC…
Worldwide vertical market IT spending is projected to total $2.7 trillion in 2009, a 0.5% increase from 2008, according to Gartner. Utilities, healthcare and government are expected to be the strongest-growing segments of the market in 2009. “The economic slowdown triggered by the U.S. subprime market crisis, along with fluctuating oil prices and currency exchange…
Tighter budgets, a greater concern over internal security breaches due to lower employee morale and complacency after a decrease in overall attacks over the past year may expose global financial institutions to an increased risk of data breaches, according to Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu’s 6th annual survey of global financial institutions’ information security efforts. “As the…
According to security vendor PandaLabs, its analysis on 430 million email messages from 2008 revealed only 8.4% of messages that reached companies were legitimate. Some 89.88% of messages were spam, while 1.11% were infected with some type of malware. Only January 2008 witnessed levels of spam below 80%. The amount of spam fluctuated throughout the…