IT spending in a downturn: broadening sourcing options, rather than radical cuts
A few weeks back I
highlighted that we'd just started running the first in a series of short polls in conjunction with
CIO UK (part of the international network of CIO magazines) - with a poll focused on how CIOs expect their spending to change in 2009, given the current economic climate.
The first poll threw up some really good insights, which corroborated what I'd heard in a number of other CIO interviews I'd just completed (at the
Nordic CIO Summit I chaired at the end of November).
We take the output from each poll we run, and write an exclusive piece for CIO UK - which is then used as the kick-off point for some further CIO debate that's published online.
Here's the first article. The headline: on balance, UK CIOs appear to be expecting IT budgets to dip marginally overall, but key projects will still progress (albeit in more bite-sized chunks). Fixed IT costs / IT infrastructure budgets will be managed very tightly - but in a way, this is "business as usual" these days. The health warning: with the economic / political situation changing almost daily, the analysis and assumptions could well be out of date by the time you read the article!
The next poll is already
live on our website: it's on the topic of collaboration and social software. Are companies doing more than paying lip-service to collaboration, and what do people think about social software's value? With our short poll we hope to be able to report some more interesting insights for CIO UK.
If you're a CIO or IT Director - or you know someone who is - please take 2 minutes to provide your input (or send your contacts the
link)! We hope to be publishing our CIO UK Debate piece on this topic early in the New Year.
Labels: CIO, collaboration, MWD, open source, outsourcing, poll, social software
The economic downturn, and outsourcing choices
That's the title of a
short online poll that we're now running, in conjunction with
CIO.co.uk - the online presence of CIO Magazine in the UK (the sister of the "big brother" CIO Magazine in the US).
If you're in a senior IT management role, we'd really like to hear about how the economic situation looks like affecting where your company gets its IT services from. If you know someone else who's in a senior management role, it would be great to hear from them, too. Just pass them the
link.
This poll is set to be the first in a monthly series that we'll run in conjunction with CIO.co.uk, as part of the community's new "Debate" channel. We'll be taking the results from each poll, and using them as input to monthly opinion articles from MWD analysts that will be hosted over at CIO.co.uk. Members of the CIO community will be invited to pitch in with their views, and all of those will be posted alongside our piece. We'll be picking off a range of topics in the coming months, and we're really excited about participating. It should be fun, and we should be able to uncover some valuable insights, too.
The results of this first poll are set to be delivered as part of the first MWD opinion piece towards the end of November. The more responses we receive, the better our articles should be - so please see if you can spare us a few minutes. As we post our articles, we'll be sure to highlight them here so you can check them out.
Labels: CIO, MWD, open source, outsourcing, poll
