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Asian CIOs should make an IT bet on the economy – IDC |
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Announcing top-ten insights that highlight the key issues Asia/Pacific CIOs need to be aware of in 2010, research firm IDC outlined its view of the key end-user strategies for the next year and beyond. It said that over the past year or more, companies in Asia have mainly adopted 'wait-and-see' or 'back-burner' IT tactics that will no longer work as the economy starts to turn again. In its list of insights, IDC highlights how IT is in the midst of a renaissance and the significance of this renaissance to businesses has been increased by the economic crisis. “In 2010 companies will have to adopt a sense of urgency and be more proactive with how they will deal with an economic recovery," said Claus Mortensen, Principal for IDC Asia/Pacific Emerging Technologies Research Group. "The economic downturn has taken its toll on all lines of business in the last year and that makes it even more vital to be ready to deal with the next upswing. Companies will have to make strategic bet on when the economy will turn and plan their IT investments accordingly.” The core of IDC's top-ten CIO insights for 2010 is with the concept of ’dematerialization’ of IT. Numerous companies may find on-premises IT to have a serious economic flaw as the model has the potential to hold IT to ransom with fixed assets that remain typically underutilized while support costs escalate. ’Dematerializing’ these assets by moving them off the premises and off the books is one such alternative of overcoming this dilemma, says IDC. "This process of ‘dematerialization’ is already taking place in various forms," said Claus. "We see them in the market as in cloud computing, cloud services, virtual dynamic IT, elastic infrastructure, on-demand architecture, web-oriented architecture and software plus services - all sharing the same core element of virtualization." IDC's says its 2010 top-ten CIO checklist outlines how companies can respond better and more dynamically to future market change. It also provides insights into how the choice of IT architecture can provide business technology a rapid and flexible way to revise, scale, upgrade and change BPM and workflows in minutes rather than in months. IDC's 2010 top-ten CIO checklist is part of IDC's newly launched "Recovery Watch" program and for this study, IDC teamed up with Joe Bourque, who until recently held the position of Futurist at New Zealand Post. IDC sees the top-ten issues that CIOs should be aware of as:
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