No matter what goals your company has set or planned for 2013 -- a clean end game for an ongoing set of initiatives, an accelerated start for new ones, radical changes, or battening down the hatches -- now is the time to take stock and turn plans into action. To help us do that, this issue of CBR provides us interesting data with two compelling perspectives from our authors.

• Read the introduction

In This Issue

• Introduction
  by Joseph Feller
• Hope for IT Stability: Staffing, Sourcing, and Innovation Trends
  by Dennis A. Adams
• Driven by Data: Can We Invent the Future?
  by Jim Love
• IT Trends in 2013: What Comes Next?
  by Joseph Feller
• IT Trends 2013 Survey Data

This issue is the seventh annual CBR issue on IT trends. We have the opportunity here not only to "take the pulse" of the IT industry on various topics -- adoption levels, HR activities, IT management strategies, and more -- but also to compare this year's snapshot with the past six years, giving us insight into the ever-changing landscape of business technology.

• Read Cutter Senior Consultants' predictions for 2012 and beyond