Adapt are the local Gartner equivalent focussed on solely the ANZ market, and I met them in 2011, their research is relevant and insightful. Their recent research discovered;
The BIG 3 surprises;
- 60% thought they “managed people well” during the crisis, however, 80% of employees are stressed
- Innovation has increased and will receive more funding
- Remote working, only 43% will be making it permanent (big tech company announcements have not influenced mainstream organisations)
Other insights;
- 59% innovation has increased, focus on simple ways of solving existing problems. Proof of concepts to increase
- rethinking what business continuity is, communication and transparency is more important than ever before
- re-strategy on the supply chain, ecosystems, must be secure and dependable, internally teams are looking at process engineering and automation
- 44% employees reported connectivity problems with Wi-Fi, education of security practices for public Wi-Fi and reducing dependency on these types of arrangements
- more funding to move mission-critical applications to the cloud, moving dev environments to the cloud, flow on is expected increase use of advanced analytics and automation capabilities
- renaissance of the CIO with an expectation of the business skills, not the technical skills, CIO’s require a whole of business view like a CFO
- the office will be where we go for the new offsite.