30 Trends for 2007

CIO Insight has a series of slide shows on its projected trends for 2007.  Agree or disagree - the slides are filled with a bunch of interesting survey data.

Strategy

1. Process improvement will be job No. 1

2. IT works on closing the sale

3. Companies make their Web sites more engaging

4. Customer service gets a tune-up

5. Companies put their mounds of data to work

6. Information governance gains momentum

7. CIOs strive to be strategic

Management

8. The division between IT and business will diminish

9. CIO compensation keeps climbing

10. IT organizations will keep growing

11. CIOs struggle to find business-savvy technologists

12. Outsourcing changes IT management

13. Outsourcing growth slows

14. Offshoring shifts from India

15. Companies invest in IT leadership

16. Demonstrating ROI will remain a struggle

Security and Risk

17. No abatement of IT security threats

18. Security concerns turn users away from Windows

19. Security morphs into risk management

20. Compliance achieves what government intended

21. Compliance spurs financial process improvement

Technology

22. The move to a new architecture marches on

23. Enterprise applications start losing their luster

24. Data quality demands attention

25. IT reluctantly embraces Web 2.0

26. IT innovation loses traction

27. Business process management services and software will frustrate users

28. For business intelligence, the best is yet to come

29. IT organizations start going green

30. Dissatisfaction with vendors is on the rise