Long-term planning drives business success

Ninety-five percent of organisations that conduct long-range planning (five to 15 years) are more likely to outperform organisations that don’t plan ahead, according to Gartner’s 2015 survey of CEOs and senior business executives. “Long-term strategic planning...

Snowden influences 2014 security forecasts

Kaspersky Lab’s experts have released their predictions for 2014, and many of them are connected to the fall-out from Edward Snowden’s revelations. End user forecast – cybercriminals will target: * Your privacy – after the Snowden scandal of 2013, people...

Slower growth for ITO predicted

The worldwide IT outsourcing (ITO) market is forecast to reach $288-billion in 2013, a 2,8% increase from 2012, according to Gartner. Compared with Gartner’s previous forecast, nearly all ITO segments are now forecast to grow more slowly during 2013. “We...

Datatec remains resilient

Datatec’s interim results indicate that overall group revenues and EBITDA for the period 1 March to 30 June 2013 will be similar to the corresponding period last year, but that underlying earnings and headline earnings per share are slightly lower. However, it adds,...

Q2 PC decline is ‘on forecasts’

Research group IDC says that the 11% decline in worldwide PC shipments for Q2 of 2013 compared to last year is “effectively right on forecasts”. It says that worldwide PC shipments totaled 75,6-million units in the second quarter of 2013, down -11,4% compared to the...