{"id":13330,"date":"2013-05-15T09:30:44","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T07:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/?p=13330"},"modified":"2019-05-02T13:54:13","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T11:54:13","slug":"2013-a-dud-year-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/2013\/05\/2013-a-dud-year-in-france\/","title":{"rendered":"With France in recession, 56% of IT directors expect 2013 to be a dud year"},"content":{"rendered":"

A\u00a0recent study conducted by IT Research in conjunction with the Club Decision DSI<\/a> (French \/ European IT director association) found that most French IT directors expect that 2013 will be a difficult year for IT investments. In study, which was conducted with 150 top IT decision makers in France, 56% believed that this year would see an overall slowdown in IT investments, but that investments would take-off again next year. \u00a0These findings were consistent with recent predictions from research analysis stalwarts Gartner and IDC.<\/p>\n

\"1642167-cap-sur-les-reseaux-sociaux-d-entreprise-pour-une-majorite-de-dsi-francais\"Despite this challenging environment, tech innovations that have been transforming Enterprises around the world are continuing. Firstly, enterprise social networks are strongly taking hold, with 56% of the respondents stating that deployment of a social network within their enterprise is underway. In addition, BYOD (bring your own device) while still not yet the norm, is slowing but surely starting to take hold with 28% stating that there’s a strong BYOD policy within their enterprises. \u00a0Green IT is also a theme that seems to of interest for an increasing number of companies as 36% now have this down as an important action item for them in 2013. Finally, smart computing (coined and defined by Forrester here<\/a>), is also popping up now with 28% of participating IT directors stating that a project is underway in their enterprise. The types of smart computing solutions that IT directors might put in place can vary by industry however. Here’s a good explanation from Forrester’s blog of the types of solutions that IT directors are putting in place.<\/p>\n

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A\u00a0recent study conducted by IT Research in conjunction with the Club Decision DSI (French \/ European IT director association) found that most French IT directors expect that 2013 will be a difficult year for IT investments. In study, which was conducted with 150 top IT decision makers in France, 56% believed that this year would<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":13332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10564],"tags":[8329],"class_list":["post-13330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tech-2","tag-social-networks-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}