Part of Kennedy’s IT consulting research series
Exclusive findings on the market for IT Strategy consulting services.
This research examines consulting providers and their client solutions around key technologies, benchmark assessments, decision-support, performance methodology/measurements and recommendations that empower clients to innovate, optimize and manage enterprise investments in IT resources.
During the downturn, many IT Strategy engagements focused on delivering cost-cutting operational enhancements and performance improvement benefits. However, as the business climate started to improve by mid-2010, the focus on IT cost cutting diminished.
Today, many client organizations have shifted their focus and are engaging IT Strategy practices to develop a sustainable IT platform and an approach that focuses on innovation and growth.
Kennedy’s market forecast details the key trends impacting client demand for IT Strategy services, and provides market size and growth estimates (through 2013) across IT Strategy segments, geographic regions, and specific client industries.
Consulting Segment:
- IT Management
- Business Performance
Geography:
- North America
- Europe, Middle East, and Africa
- Asia Pacific
- Latin America
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Client Vertical Industry:
- Financial Services
- Healthcare
- Public Sector
- Manufacturing
- Energy
- Communications and Media
- Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG)
- Retail
- Utilities
- Other Industries
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In recent months, many IT consulting firms have spent considerable effort developing and investing in offerings that emphasized their capabilities in high-growth areas such as cloud computing, business analytics, and social computing. The technology-based foundation defining these capabilities has provided an opportunity for several firms to gain traction with their IT Strategy offerings.
Kennedy's analysis of the market landscape and associated assessments provides exclusive rankings of the largest practices serving the IT Strategy Consulting market. With annual practice revenues and year over year changes in revenues, the analysis provides clarity into the current trajectory of the most significant IT Strategy providers.
The research also features The Kennedy Vanguard of IT Strategy Consulting Practices, which provides clients with an objective view of the relative strengths and weaknesses of the leading providers, as well as the cumulative impact that specific dynamics in the IT Strategy market — and each service segment — have on competitive positioning. As the research details, only three of the 22 firms Kennedy assessed rated strong enough to be in The Kennedy Vanguard of IT Strategy Consulting Practices.
This market analysis includes:
TRENDS IMPACTING DEMAND FOR IT STRATEGY CONSULTING looks at the market trends and factors affecting growth for services in the IT strategy consulting marketplace.
IT STRATEGY CONSULTING: SPENDING AND GROWTH FORECASTS the size of the IT strategy consulting market and its projected growth. This section slices the market by consulting segment, region and client industry.
THE IT STRATEGY CONSULTING PROVIDER LANDSCAPE, featuring in-depth analysis of recent actions by leading players in the market and discusses the implications these moves have on the future of the market.
THE KENNEDY VANGUARD OF IT STRATEGY CONSULTING PRACTICES features the strongest IT Strategy consultancies. Firms are assessed on relative breadth and depth of firms’ capabilities within the overall service area.
PROFILES OF SELECT IT STRATEGY CONSULTING PRACTICES profiles IT Strategy consulting firms featured in this report.
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