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Insight
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.
Another industry characteristic makes our prediction task even more difficult. Ours is an industry that launches more ideas than it lands. It's an industry full of announcements that are sometimes short on substance.
I hope you have enjoyed this issue of CBR, and that both the survey data and our authors' analysis gave you food for thought as you consider your strategies and operations for the rest of 2013 and beyond. I'll close off the issue by addressing the key point Jim poses at the beginning of his article: "it's not what we know -- it's what we will do with that knowledge that defines our collective future."
SURVEY DEMOGRAPHICS
This survey explored interest in, and adoption of, various relatively new IT technologies and initiatives and investigated staffing and outsourcing trends in 68 organizations worldwide. Fifty percent of responding organizations are headquartered in North America, 22% in Asia/Australia/Pacific, and 18% in Europe, with the remainder in South America, Africa, and the Middle East.
With flat economic numbers, austerity measures kicking in, and armed conflicts roiling most areas of the world, last year came to a close much as it began. Although most equity markets are looking good today, debt levels still make investors, politicians, and credit-rating agencies nervous.