Press Release: From Alignment to Cloud Adoption, Cutter Consultants Weigh In with 2012 Predictions

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With 2011 drawing to a close, Cutter Consortium Senior Consultants are making their annual predictions for the year ahead. Here are some highlights:

Cutter Fellow Steve Andriole:Wall Street will dramatically modify their valuation models of software and technology services companies skewing the importance of cloud delivery. Companies that can demonstrate significant growth in cloud services will be rewarded; those that fail to embrace the cloud will be punished -- in the wallet, where it hurts.

Senior Consultant Claude Baudoin:The ABS ("Anything But Sharepoint") Movement will gather steam. A number of cloud-based, highly collaborative, easy-to-use products have emerged that can meet 80% of some users' needs at 20% of the cost. I'm talking about products like Jive (which hopefully SAP won't love to death if the rumors of an acquisition are true), Yammer, and IGLOO.

Senior Consultant Sara Cullen:With regard to sourcing, I see 2012 as the year of the contract manager. More universities will offer contract management as a degree (not just a module), yet it will take some time for the students to enter the marketplace. The professional contract management associations will have a boom in membership (and for those with a job board, an increase in postings). But the demand for good contract managers will outstrip supply -- next year and for years to come.

Senior Consultant Bill Keyworth:Fortunately (or unfortunately), the burden of aligning IT with the Business falls almost exclusively on IT. Yet at the very time that IT is getting better and better at what it does, the perceived value of IT is becoming increasingly marginalized. I predict that the IT organizations that survive and succeed will be those that effectively "market" themselves to their business customers. The IT survivors in the next 2-3 years will be those who understand and position their unique competitive differentiation. The long term winners will know how to attractively package their Service Portfolio within the collateral of the Service Catalog. The internal IT winners will be those that execute against a strategic IT marketing plan.

See the complete list of 2012 predictions from Cutter's Senior Consultants.

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