Ready for 2009? Check Out IDC’s Predictions…
Posted by Frank Gens on January 5th, 2009
Welcome to 2009. This first work week of the year is a great time to think about the weeks and months ahead – and what you’ll need to do. Here are some tools that may help:
Last month we released IDC’s IT and Telecom industry predictions for 2009. The overarching story this year will be about the IT industry’s ongoing and massive transformation – toward emerging markets, SMB and consumer customer segments, and toward Internet/Cloud, mobile, sustainable, community-developed and solutions-packaged technologies and offerings – colliding with the deep global recession.
The key question: Will the recession put the industry’s transformation on hold? Or will it drive even faster change and disruption?
Here’s a video summary of our predictions:
And here’s the 15-page Predictions 2009 document: for IDC clients, and for everyone else.
And lastly, here’s the IDC Predictions web site, where we’re be posting dozens of more detailed, segment-specific predictions: by IT industry product and service segment, by region, by industry, and more.
I tried following the links for everyone else, filled out the form, and got a blank page in Firefox, and a “Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage” error in IE7
Left by Chris Trygstad on February 3rd, 2009