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IDC Predictions for the CIO 2015 Agenda

By Dick Weisinger

IDC has release their predictions for how they see the agenda will be changing the role of the CIO over the next five years, including a prediction that by 2020 nearly two-thirds of them will be out of a job.

Michael Rosen, Adjunct Research Advisor with IDC, said that “the transformations brought about by the 3rd Platform are having significant effects on how the business uses IT, how IT is delivered, and how the IT organization is structured.”

By 2015, 60 percent of CIOs will use DevOps.

By 2016, 80 percent of CIOs will deliver new architectures to enable innovation and better decisions.
By 2016, 80 percent will replace current IT assets with cloud platforms.
By 2016, 70 percent of CEOs will have security as a top 3 priority.
By 2016, 65 percent of global strategy will require IT as a service.

By 2017, 80 percent of CIO time will revolve around analytics, security and new revenue streams via digital services.
By 2017, 35 percent of vendor relationships revolving around third party platforms will fail.

By 2018, 50 percent of CIOs will favor an open standards approach.
By 2018, 30 percent of CIOs will have an analytics strategy.

By 2020, 60 percent of CIOs in global organizations will be supplanted by the Chief Digital Officer (CDO)

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