International Data Corporation (IDC) has made some predictions for the New Zealand IT industry for 2018 and beyond. In a statement, the market watcher said its predictions reflect the maturity and growth of New Zealand’s digital economy, ‘with many organisations accustomed to leveraging digital innovation platforms’.
Over the next two years, IDC said it expects this will manifest in expanding digital developer communities, open innovation ecosystems, hyper-agile application deployment technologies and a more diverse cloud services world.
“With 3rd Platform technologies [cloud, mobility, big data and social] now deeply embedded ino New Zealand organisations, CIOs and digital leadership teams are now ramping up investment in the digital economy opportunity,” said Louise Francis, Senior Research Manager, IDC New Zealand.
She said digital natives are here and companies must respond by themselves acting as digital natives by investing beyond 3rd Platform technologies. “It is no longer about piecemeal investment but largescale investment taking advantage of the foundations that have been laid down over the past five years.”
IDC’s predictions for this year, in no particular order, are:
“Many New Zealand organisations have already reached a level of technological maturity to advance to the next stage of digital evolution, becoming a true Digital Native,” said Francis.
“The only things that can hold them back will be an innovation impasse caused by legacy systems constraining transformation and a lack of business vision. However, 2018 will provide the opportunity for all organisations to unleash digital innovation’s power for digital-centric transformation altering business and society at scale.”
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