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The Growing U.S. IT Productivity Gap
1. 2006
Amazon
web services
launched
6
1990
2000
2010
.2%
1.2%
1
2.6%
1991
World
wide web
debuts
1997
Wifi
1998
Google
THE
GAP
GROWING
Productivity growth has slowed
down despite our rising
investment in IT
What is it?
4
6
5
5
Complexity 55-72% of IT
spend is operations & mainterance
Acceleration of security attacks
40% increase in recent years
Acceleration of data doubling
its size every 2 years
By 2020, the digital universe
will be 44 zettabytes
Old infrastructure
mobile & cloud
technology is
bolted onto
30-year-old
systems
Causes
How to close it
Estimated $2.7 trillionAnnual cost
IT spend
at 11%
3
2007
iPhone
debuts
$1.4 million
units
2015
IT spend
at 5.5%
2
iPhone
sales
$231
million
units
Greater focus at the “Technology Frontier”
Frontier firms apply innovative technologies to business
solutions – so workers can becomemore productive
The productivity growth of the frontier firms is now 3-4% more
productive than non-frontier firms
Connect people & processes with new technology
Streamlined use of cloud/mobile technology, document management,
data availability & asset management improves:
Customer/client/stakeholder service Business critical KPIs
Sector competitiveness Employee efficiency
Security
2012
Wifi in 25%
of global
households
1 Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics
2 http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/3368517
3 http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/742913
4 http://www.computerworld.com/article/2486278/it-manage-
ment/how-to-balance-maintenance-and-it-innovation.html (2014) survey of IT managers
by Forrester Research reported the “keep the lights on” component of the IT budge
5 https://www.emc.com/leadership/digital-universe/2014iview/executive-summary.htm
6 Need reference data from Synergy Keynote
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