Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Optimism About Tech Recovery Might be Misplaced

Gartner analyst Andrea Di Maio says he "has visited five European countries in the last two weeks, meeting over 50 clients, and almost every single conversation has been either about how to reduce costs or about how to deal with specific technical or organizational challenges in a cost-constrained environment."

That doesn't sound like a foundation for a renewed wave of information technology spending, though there has been optimism on that score in the U.S. market recently.

What might really be worrisome isthe magnitude of the cuts and the timeframe for expected savings. He says he has "heard numbers between 20 and 40 per cent and timeframes of a year or less."

It is fair to say that most CIOs and IT leaders are simply unprepared to deal with this.

Tech recovery? This doesn't sound like it.

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