By: When it comes to IT, change may very well be the only thing CIOs can depend on in 2007. That's what the editors at CIO Insight found when we took each of the 13 surveys we conducted in 2006 and put them under the microscope to project next year's 30 major trends. We break out 2007's trends into four different categories: Strategy, Management, Security, and Technology. But they are all closely related. And each trend contains a wealth of information and statistics gleaned directly from the source: CIOs, CTOs, and other high-level technology executives. So look closely.
Will service-oriented architecture take a big step forward next year? Will outsourcing take a step backward? Will businesses finally learn how to measure the value of IT? These are just some of the predictions we make based on a full year's worth of data. Read on to see what kind of year you can expect in 2007.
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Strategy 1. Process improvement will be job No. 1 2. IT works on closing the sale 3. Companies make their Web sites more engaging 4. Customer service gets a tune-up 5. Companies put their mounds of data to work 6. Information governance gains momentum 7. CIOs strive to be strategic
Management 8. The division between IT and business will diminish 9. CIO compensation keeps climbing 10. IT organizations will keep growing 11. CIOs struggle to find business-savvy technologists 12. Outsourcing changes IT management 13. Outsourcing growth slows 14. Offshoring shifts from India 15. Companies invest in IT leadership 16. Demonstrating ROI will remain a struggle
Security and Risk 17. No abatement of IT security threats 18. Security concerns turn users away from Windows 19. Security morphs into risk management 20. Compliance achieves what government intended 21. Compliance spurs financial process improvement
Technology 22. The move to a new architecture marches on 23. Enterprise applications start losing their luster 24. Data quality demands attention 25. IT reluctantly embraces Web 2.0 26. IT innovation loses traction 27. Business process management services and software will frustrate users 28. For business intelligence, the best is yet to come 29. IT organizations start going green 30. Dissatisfaction with vendors is on the rise
