Off in analyst land, they’re always checking on IT priorities. In this discussion, Rita Manachi (@ritam) goes over some recent surveys about how COVID has changed IT priorities. It’s some good before/after stuff to see what CIOs and such are looking to do.

Mentioned

• Forrester COVID paper: “To Recover From The Pandemic, Automate Operations To Free Budget For Innovation.”
• Forrester report infographic on all this.
• Nov 10th webinar: Modernization in the Age of Covid. Forrester study shines a light on modernization to recover from the pandemic.
• “Gartner Says 69% of Boards of Directors Accelerated Their Digital Business Initiatives Following COVID-19 Disruption,” Sep 2020 press release.

Chapters

00:00:00 – Gartner IT Symposium.
02:59:29 – COVID surveys for IT priorities, before & after.
05:31:00 – Are people actually going to change, this time?
11:00:11 – Let’s look at the survey results – charts!
12:37:05 – Demographics.
12:45:15 – Lead time/release frequency.
13:29:29 – Speeding up innovation.
14:11:11 – Business priorities.
14:38:01 – Reducing costs vs. innovation.
19:04:05 – Budget changes, per Gartner.
22:42:07 – Sustaining the positive change.
25:01:21 – Prioritizing applications to modernize.
26:38:28 – Blockers & challenges.
27:36:23 – Reducing costs, automation, etc.
32:14:28 – Staffing.
34:14:26 – Hiring freezes.
35:24:20 – Business/IT alignment.
38:25:18 – What does “digital transformation” mean here?
45:03:19 – Bye, Bye!

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