Forrester IT

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

This year, I led my first custom survey research for Forrester, the 2020 State of Modern Technology Operations survey. We selected a random panel of 268 digital and IT professionals with day to day responsibility for operating digital systems. (We We did *not* rule out developers, as long as they also had runtime responsibilities).

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Worse, issues that undermine IT culture may not appear in these KPIs or employee satisfaction surveys for months. For example, in the Deloitte Global 2024 Gen Z and Millennial Survey , the top three reasons Gen Z’ers chose their organizations were good work-life balance, learning and development opportunities, and positive work culture.

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Information Week

JUNE 4, 2020

Responses show increased adoption of the methodology across more tiers of their organizations and closer ties between business and IT.

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Network World

JANUARY 23, 2025

A recent survey of cybersecurity professionals indicates that 81% of organizations are turning to zero trust as the foundation of their cybersecurity strategies. Ransomware is certainly causing anxiety among security practitioners and was listed as a top cyberthreat concern by 72% of survey respondents.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 31, 2025

Speed and agility bring in the top transformation prize. Go all-in with agile Another way to ensure IT can quickly deliver transformative results is to go all-in with modern approaches, starting with a full embrace of agile development. The 2024 State of Agile report from Digital.ai He says the approach is paying off.

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Network World

APRIL 7, 2025

Among 770 quantum computing researchers and professionals, 56% say that theyre already using quantum computing in their organization, according to a QuEra survey released in January. Instead, Horvath and other experts recommend that enterprises pursue quantum agility. It seems easy to do but its actually catastrophic.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

According to recent data from IDC’s CIO Sentiment Survey (Figure 1), only 38% of organizations have reached a high level of maturity in their digital transformation efforts (with only about 13% claiming full transformation). And yet, these types of metrics are the limpets of IT measurement — encrusted, intractable, and creating drag.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 15, 2025

Nine of 10 CIOs surveyed by Gartner late last year expressed concerns that managing AI costs was limiting their ability to get value from AI. Over 90% of those surveyed said investments in AI and data were top priorities. The interest in funding AI projects isnt slowing down.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 13, 2025

According to a survey conducted by FTI Consulting on behalf of UST, a digital transformation consultancy, 99% of senior IT decision makers say their companies are deploying AI, with more than half using and integrating it throughout their organizations, and 93% say that AI will be essential to success in the next five years.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 29, 2024

He notes that recent surveys by Gartner and Forrester show that over 50% of organizations cite security and efficiency as their main reasons for modernizing their legacy systems and data applications. An effective IT modernization plan requires collaboration across multiple stakeholders.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 29, 2024

At a time when technology innovation cycles are getting shorter, we will struggle to keep pace if we have to navigate around legacy systems that act as barriers to speed and agility. Over time the speed and agility barriers associated with the ERP spread to other systems as they, in turn, formed an expanding wave of technical debt.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 12, 2025

Participants in a recent IBM survey used 83 different security solutions from 29 vendors, on average. The AI beast can be neutralized by the AI hero that replaces fragmentation with platformization: an agile, efficient, powerful mechanism that breeds confidence in business transactions and ultimately drives growth.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

JUNE 8, 2020

The 14th annual state of agile report is now available, and it's one of the papers I look forward to reviewing every year. It surveys over one thousand software development professionals from a mix of company sizes, development team sizes, geographies, and industries.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Yet strategic technology decisions, such as vendor consolidation, can help support a business’s ability to handle volatility and remain agile in challenging times. IT Leadership, Small and Medium Business

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 22, 2024

The survey of 760 IT leaders and engineers at organizations with more than 1,000 employees explores key challenges and landscape changes that offer perspective to IT leaders as they pursue their own cloud-native app and platform strategies. The survey shows that the more platforms that run, the more challenges that can arise.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

According to IT decision-makers surveyed, the service management areas where organizations are least effective are integrating IT silos with systems and applications (cited by only 8% as very effective) and using AI to improve the delivery of ITSM (7% citing it as very effective). The irony is hard to ignore.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

According to a recent Censuswide survey of more than 400 CFOs and CIOs across North America, 72% of respondents believe the relationship with their counterpart has strengthened, which directly led or contributed to positive business results. Why did the CFO/CIO relationship grow stronger? What made the CFO/CIO relationship worse?

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 7, 2022

When businesses migrate to public cloud, they expect to enjoy greater agility, resiliency, scalability, security, and cost-efficiency. Indeed, 39% surveyed cited concerns about controlling costs. Cost-efficiency and expectations of agility should be integral to a properly orchestrated cloud-migration program.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 3, 2025

Unlike previous hardware refresh cycles, AI PCs represent a foundational shift in how businesses operateleveraging AI to create smarter, more efficient, and agile organization. According to a recent IDC survey, AI PC adoption is surging, with 82% of ITDMs surveyed expected to acquire AI PCs before the end of 2025.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Focused on digitization and innovation and closely aligned with lines of business, some 40% of IT leaders surveyed in CIO.com’s State of the CIO Study 2024 characterize themselves as transformational, while a quarter (23%) consider themselves functional: still optimizing, modernizing, and securing existing technology infrastructure.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 17, 2025

But only 40% feel fully prepared to manage and integrate these technologies, as PwCs recent Pulse survey suggests.Each team and team member will create new agents to perform tasks, autonomously and intelligently, he says.At It has to be Five 9s capable and agile for a still defining AI world. the same time, people are experimenting.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

And according to the most recent Enterprise Cloud Index survey related to the recruitment and retention of cloud talent, 80% of respondents identify IT and cloud talent recruitment and retention a concern for their budgets. Despite these challenges, businesses and IT must remain agile and responsive to changing demands.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

In the event of eliminating or reducing agile work, 68% of Italians would remain where they are but would start looking for a new job, and 7% would leave immediately even without an alternative, according to recruiting company Hays Italia and law firm Daverio & Florio. million compared to about 3.6

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 16, 2025

According to IDCs Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending Survey, Wave 4 , April 2024, the most significant factors limiting further evaluation or expanded use of GenAI are lack of skills and a lack of clear use cases or initial offerings that align with business needs.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 26, 2025

Evaluate ROI and substantiate it with relevance, optimization and impact Utilize your tech investments to deliver financial and operational agility. Appraising Talent The 2024 CIO Tech Priorities survey revealed that over 60% of CIOs believe in upskilling or reskilling talent, while 40% believe in hiring new talent.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

That’s because their approach is often not agile enough to keep pace with today’s evolving business landscape. But even though many businesses are ready to reap the service’s full benefits, they have yet to crack the ITSM code of aligning their IT services with their organizational goals.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 17, 2024

In IDCs April 2024 CIO Poll Survey of 105 senior IT professionals and CIOs, developing better IT governance and enterprise architecture emerged as one of the top priorities for 2024, ranking fourth. Centralized governance often results in slower decision-making processes, as decisions are concentrated at the top levels, stifling agility.

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Forrester IT

AUGUST 1, 2024

In Forrester’s Priorities Survey, 2024, 64% of business and technology professionals said that bringing more development in-house would be a high or critical priority for their IT organization over the […]

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Among other things, NTT’s survey suggests a strong correlation between a willingness to invest in modernizing networks and high levels of commercial performance. At the other end of the spectrum, NTT’s survey confirms many enterprise networks suffer from long-term underinvestment and increasing levels of technical debt.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 30, 2024

According to a Bank of America survey of global research analysts and strategists released in September, 2024 was the year of ROI determination, and 2025 will be the year of enterprise AI adoption. Weve seen so many reference implementations, and weve done so many reference implementations, that were going to see massive adoption.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Recent surveys underscore this reality, as 92% of IT jobs are likely to be transformed by AI , according to the AI-Enabled ICT Workforce Consortium, and 74% of IT pros see AI making their skills obsolete , Pluralsight reports. CIOs and their teams need to be hyper-agile, flexible, and fast, too, for the same reasons, he adds.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 1, 2024

A recent survey from Skillsoft sheds additional light on these dynamics. Its survey of 2,500 full-time employees in the US, UK, Germany, and India revealed that 35% of respondents lack confidence that they have the skills required to succeed in their roles, with 41% noting concerns regarding job security because of a skills gap.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 23, 2025

A key characteristic of IT leaders, according to those surveyed recently by the Innovation Advisory Council, is the ability to anticipate technological change. But its the practice and effort put in to be more agile with emerging technologies and cultural shifts that will realize a more fulfilled reality as business outcomes.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 3, 2024

A recently conducted survey by Gradient Flow explores the state of GenAI in healthcare, an industry that’s been on the pulse of the technology since inception. From budget allocations to model preferences and testing methodologies, the survey unearths the areas that matter most to large, medium, and small companies, respectively.

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Network World

AUGUST 7, 2024

Quantum computers may be here sooner than we thought, according to a survey of more than 900 quantum professionals released this month by quantum computing company QuEra. Flexibility is key No algorithm is guaranteed to be secure forever, Schneier says, so agility is going to be key going forward, even for symmetric encryption.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 8, 2025

Data is the foundation of innovation, agility and competitive advantage in todays digital economy. Choosing the right architecture isnt just a technical decision; its a strategic one that affects integration, governance, agility and cost. Promotes ownership, agile, aligns IT and business. Unified analytics, mixed workloads.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Less than half of C-level executives believe their IT organizations are effectively delivering basic services, compared to about two-thirds with confidence in 2013, according to a survey recently released by the IBM Institute for Business Value. The drop was the largest among the CEOs surveyed. Confidence also fell among CFOs.

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