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Insight
As CBR's annual survey on IT trends tells us, there are positive signs that IT organizations are positioned for renewed growth, and many companies expect to be hiring IT professionals in 2011.
As you know, we revisit this survey each year, keeping some questions to enable trend analyses and introducing others as new technologies gain prominence and new trends emerge and strengthen.
This survey explored interest in and adoption of various relatively new IT technologies and initiatives and investigated staffing and outsourcing trends in 91 organizations worldwide. Fifty percent of respondents hold senior management/policymaking or IS/IT management titles, with consulting, project management, and software engineering/programming being among the other job titles reported.
Complex Adaptive Systems
A complex system is a system composed of interconnected parts that as a whole exhibit one or more properties (behaviors) not obvious from the properties of the individual parts.
The trends that will define tomorrow are embedded in the dominant technologies of today, and the general laws of the past will continue to apply. We have seen the ascendancy of cloud computing, social networking, and mobility, along with movement in organization that supports efficiency and rapid change. Each represents the current stage along evolutionary paths that continue to affect both the business environment and IT.