30 IT Trends for 2007

Here is an interesting list from CIO Insight concerning the top 30 IT trends we will see next year.  They are based in four different categories; Strategies, Management, Security, and Technology.  Click on the heading, and you will be taken to their site, where a slideshow awaits.

Strategy

1. Process improvement (which leads to lower operating costs)
2. IT works on closing the sale
3. Companies make their Web sites more engaging
4. Customer service through websites
5. Data mining
6. Information governance
7. CIOs strive to be strategic

Management

1. Division between IT and business will diminish
2. CIO compensation continues to climb
3. IT organizations will keep growing
4. CIOs struggle to find business-savvy technologists
5. Outsourcing changes IT management
6. Outsourcing growth slows
7. Offshoring shifts from India
8. Companies invest in IT leadership (project management)
9. Demonstrating ROI will remain a struggle

Security and Risk

1. No abatement of IT security threats
2. Security concerns turn users away from Windows (we’ll see.. not that it’s a bad thing)
3. Security morphs into risk management
4. Compliance achieves what government intended
5. Compliance spurs financial process improvement

Technology

1.  The move to a new architecture marches on
2. Enterprise applications start losing their luster
3. Data quality demands attention (thanks to data mining)
4. IT reluctantly embraces Web 2.0
5. IT innovation loses traction
6. Business process management services and software will frustrate users
7. For business intelligence, the best is yet to come
8. IT organizations start going green (ie. Google’s solar powered office)
9. Dissatisfaction with vendors is on the rise