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IT Investment: What to Expect in 2019 — Top Ten List

By Dick Weisinger

Based on a survey of CIOs and senior IT executrives, IDC has published their list of top ten drivers for IT strategy in 2019:

  1. By 2020, 80 percent of organizations say that IT executive compensation will be judged by how well the business does, not by internal IT metrics.
  2. By 2020, 60 percent of CIOs will have introduced more comprehensive security frameworks that go beyond just guarding against cyberattacks.
  3. By 2021, 70 percent of CIOs will have structured their APIs and architectures to provide agile interconnectivity between on-premise, cloud, partners and vendors.
  4. By 2021, 70 percent of CIOs will be apply AI to their operations, tools and processes to save money and to improve agility and innovation.
  5. By 2021, 65 percent of CIOs will be integrating agile DevOps practices with non-IT business processes.
  6. Byt 2022, 75 percent of IT organizations will have transformed and rationalized thier infrastructures, applications and data architectures.
  7. By 2022, 75 percent of CIOs who don’t transform their organizations to embrace digital methods will fail and their organizations will risk disruption.
  8. By 2022, 65 percent of CIOs will need to revamp governance policies in order to address operations and risks from new technologies like AI, machine learning and data privacy.
  9. By 2020, there will be a global 30 percent shortage of IT talent.  Organizations will increasingly need to train and develop the skills of their staff members
  10. By 2023, 70 percent of CIOs will fail professionally if they are not able to keep pace with changes in IT governance, strategy and operations.
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