Another post in our “IT Boomhunter” series – helping you find growth IT markets in fast-changing times.
This McKinsey report that shows how remote infrastructure management is predicted to be a boom area. “While other offshoring services have grown rapidly, the management and maintenance of core infrastructure from afar has been slow to gain popularity. Only a sliver—about 7 percent—of the addressable market is being captured. But our research suggests that this is about to change. Shifts in customer attitudes and economics could trigger rapid growth for these services, known in the industry as remote infrastructure management.”
“34 percent of CIOs say they expect to offshore some infrastructure services over the next three years—a sharp increase from 19 percent in a similar survey a year earlier.” McKinsey.
The PDF of the report is here.
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“IT Boomhunter” – very nice! In the last week alone, I’ve heard about a boom in compliance technology and consulting, massive need for automation in insurance claims processing, and pinpointed five other industries where the ‘invest in flexibility’ message is critical (i.e. the ability to scale back now but bounce back as soon as markets recover).
Keeping track of these and on top of the messages has got to be key to getting through to audiences. I think so many people are still ploughing on with their oil-tankers of the pre-summer messages and approaches that anyone with a more crunch-conscious approach will stand head-and-shoulders above the rest…
Interesting story on Finextra news service this morning: on Merrill and BoA IT job cuts the post merger integration and jjob losses could actually offer significant IT services opportunites.
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