Predicts 2008 (Industries)

Analytical Capabilities Will Drive Competitive Advantage for Consumer Goods
(Summary)

Consumer goods manufacturers can expect a dynamic and challenging year in 2008. Improving analytical capabilities in a number of areas, from product development to merchandising to point of sale, is a central theme in our predictions for the coming year.

Changes in IT Support for Education Beyond 2010
(Summary)

Education continues to expand the use of IT to support teaching, learning and the management of its organizations. Gartner's education predictions should guide clients' IT investment and IT management strategies for the next three to five years.

CIO Success Factors - Past Practices Will Have Little Bearing on the Future
(Summary)

CIOs and IT executives must be models of transformation as their businesses capitalize on business processes, relationships, information flows and services. The next three years will be a period of advanced leadership, high experimentation, organizational flexibility and serious talent competition.

Control of the Financial Relationship Is Up for Grabs in Banking and Investment Services
(Summary)

Control of the financial relationship is at stake in an environment of emerging nonbank competitors and technology opportunities in the banking and investment services sector.

Convergence Defines Auto Companies' Innovation Power
(Summary)

Automotive companies must foster process and product innovation and achieve convergence of cross-functional areas to ensure future financial success.

Energy and Utility Companies' Outlook Shaped by Market Forces and Environmental Concerns
(Summary)

We explore four Strategic Planning Assumptions that utility IT departments and energy sector participants will face in the coming year. We probe the market implications and offer actionable recommendations.

Greater IT Use Will Change Roles and Drivers in Healthcare Delivery Organizations
(Summary)

CDOs are finally using IT for organizational and process changes to achieve clinical and business optimization. As they learn to use IT, Gartner foresees changes in the CMIO role, a steep BI learning curve, ITIL as a management framework and, in many countries, HIE as a driver of IT adoption.

How Shoppers and Technology Will Change Retail
(Summary)

More customer-facing technology than ever before is available to the average consumer. Gartner's top industry predictions should guide clients' IT investments during the next three to five years.

Insurance Competition, Data and Staffing Risks Dominate the Insurance Industry
(Summary)

Fundamental shifts in staffing levels, healthcare spending account providers and the mismatch of data used by business intelligence tools head up Gartner's 2008 predictions for insurers.

Life Science Manufacturers Use IT as a Strategic Weapon
(Summary)

Life science companies continue to battle for competitive advantage despite healthy product pipelines because they often don't take full advantage of IT enablement in ways that can move them ahead of the competition.

Manufacturing IT Becomes More Than Business IT
(Summary)

Manufacturers are looking to IT departments more today than ever before to help them become flexible and agile in a global economy. Manufacturing CIOs need to look at how they create value in their organizations.

Natural Resources at an IT Investment High Point
(Summary)

With the natural resources sector experiencing continued prosperity, IT investment will remain at or near historical highs for the next few years. CIOs in this sector should focus on a few key initiatives to ensure that they are best serving the business.

The Media Industry Responds to Greater Consumer Control
(Summary)

We look at the forces at work in the media industry, and we offer media industry participants our predictions and analysis on the market implications and our recommendations.