Jiri’s Notepad

“Top 10 business priorities in 2006:

Business process improvement
Controlling enterprise operating costs
Attracting and growing customer relationships
Improving competitive advantage
Improving competitiveness
Using intelligence in products and services
Security breaches and disruptions
Revenue growth
Faster innovation
Faster innovation and cycle times

Top 10 technology priorities:

Business Intelligence applications
Security technologies
Mobile workforce enablement
Collaboration technologies
Customer sales and service
Service Oriented Architectures (SOA)
Workflow management
Networking, voice and data communications
Virtualization
Legacy application modernization”

-Gartner Survey […]

BusinessWeek: HP’s Ultimate Team PlayerWe’re focused on addressing CIOs biggest pain point,” says Livermore. “Customers are complaining that all their money goes into labor and operating costs. We can be the company to help them automate and manage this, to drive costs out.

Industry specific predictions from IDC:
1. Biggest increase in IT spending will come from government and healthcare sectors
2. Banks will go on to transform their core banking systems
3. Insurance companies will be spending on fraud management
4. Capital market companies will be investing in streamlining of trading processes
5. Use of intelligent decision models in manufacturing
6. Pay for […]