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While the 3rd Platform of mobile, social, big data, and cloud services is just beginning to mature, it will require an entirely different set of IT skills and roles — many of which are yet to be invented, says IDC report.
IDC Top 10 Predictions
- In two years, over 70% of CIOs will change their primary role from directly managing IT to become an innovation partner.
- Before 2017, only 40% of CIOs will rise to produce business enhancing insights from big data and analytics
- 70% of CIOs will increase enterprise exposure to risk to accelerate business agility through increased cloud adoption
- Enterprise business mobility will require 60% of CIOs by 2017 to support an agile architecture with next-generation mobile applications
- 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
- By 2015, 3rd Platform requirements will drive 60% of CIOs to use enterprise architecture (EA) as a required IT tool, but only 40% will deploy EA effectively.
- By 2015, 60% of CIO security budgets for increasingly vulnerable legacy systems will be 30-40% too small to fund enterprise threat assessments
- By 2017, the transfer of 3rd Platform investments from IT to line-of-business budgets will require 60% of CIOs to focus the IT budget on business innovation and value
- By 2016, 80% of the IT budget will be based on providing broad portfolio of IT and business services
- By 2018, adoption of 3rd Platform IT technologies will redefine 90% of IT roles
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