Research studies

Independent research programme for CIOs, their teams, and their suppliers

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K2 Advisory runs an independent research programme, which in 2011 will revolve around four topic areas that have been highlighted to us by buyers as key areas of concern and opportunity. Each quarter we will take the topic and explore it in depth.

Upcoming research Research archive

Current research

Sourcing IT services "For the journey": The impact of Cloud on outsourcing

Due for publication: Jul 2011

The incredible shrinking IT department: Creating tomorrow’s CIO giants

With the growth of outsourcing and cloud computing, the delivery and management of technology is gradually moving out of the internal IT department. IT in the sense of managing technology infrastructure is edging closer to becoming a critical but nonstrategic asset like electricity, best provided by specialised external managed services providers.

Due for publication: Oct 2011

Growing pains: Supporting mid-sized organisations through growth and globalisation

Many organisations with 100 to 500 employees (including small local authorities) do not have the in-house resources to keep pace with their growing operational needs. They are often understaffed as they develop and can’t afford the IT skills and systems that they need to support their expansion. Indeed, IT is more often seen as an albatross than as an asset as such organisations move forward.

Current research

The mid-market CIO: Recalibrating the role of IT

Feb 2012

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Feb 2011

Shared service centres: the CIO’s role in scoping, supporting and managing them

The goal of shared services is to provide high quality, mission-critical, but non-core services to the organisation at lower cost and more efficiently than the organisation has previously provided for itself.

Jan 2011

The Chief Information Officer's role in enabling innovation

Despite the clear need for UK companies to innovate, the term “innovation” has become over-used. Indeed, as the economic performance of the UK went down, so it seems the use of the word “innovation” went up – almost as if it is some kind of rescue remedy that can be taken as and when needed.

Jul 2010

Digital Workplace Choices: Preparing for the 2020 Workplace

The role of the IT department has for the past number of years been largely centred around serving considerable numbers of staff through enterprise desktop services – where the emphasis is on standardisation and reducing total cost of ownership.

Apr 2010

Future advances in support services to the mid-market

Mid-sized organisations face the persistent challenge of sizing up the benefits versus the drawbacks of working with large, global IT services organisations.

The bottom line for many is that they are concerned they will simply be too small to be important enough to the vendor. Couple this with the desire of many smaller mid-sized firms to work with providers who are locally based, and the business prospects for mid-sized and mid-market focused suppliers look strong.

Mar 2010

Cloud Computing: A Step-Change for IT Services

This report assesses market perceptions of Cloud Computing and the way that this is changing the commercial context for IT Services engagements. It also explores the changing shape of the Cloud services market opportunity from 2010 – 2015.

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