Forrester Tracks the 'Renegade Tech Buyer'

摘要

Fewer than 10 percent of business decision-makers outside of IT are not spending their own budget on technology services, and of the 90 percent who are, almost a quarter of earmark 21 percent or more of their unit's expenditures for IT, according to new research from Forrester. This group, which Forrester calls "high spenders," has good relationships with IT and views the CIO and his/her office more positively than lower-spending business leaders. "CIOs have to pivot and act more as a consultant to the business - the days of a centralized controlled IT world are over, just like the centralized state-run economy of the Soviet Union is a thing of the past," blogs John McCarthy, the author of the report.