Top trends for CIOs to watch in 2013 via Gartner
Monday, November 5th, 2012 Karen Ambrose Hickey, Editor
Gartner Symposium kicked off the prediction season with “The 10 Trends CIOs Should Watch in 2013.”
What was first? A Deepening Mobile Reliance.
“According to Gartner, mobile devices will overtake PCs in 2013 as the most likely way employees will access the Internet. That will increase a company’s reliance on handsets and tablets, and force CIOs to determine which products are right for their employees.”
Also relevant to mobile, data security, and mobile devices was: #3: Go to the Cloud
The cloud is increasingly becoming the place consumers store their personal data. For CIOs, that means accepting the likelihood of some corporate data going to the cloud. That should increase employees’ willingness to use cloud solutions in the enterprise.
