Progressive Companies Accept New Work Approaches, Apply New Business Processes and Realize Results
TORONTO--(Marketwire - Jan 30, 2013) - Avanade, a global business technology solutions and managed services provider, today released results from a global survey of nearly 600 C-level executives and IT decision-makers in 19 countries. Research findings show that widespread use of consumer technologies in the enterprise are having a sweeping impact on traditional ways of doing business and the results companies can achieve.
Traditionally, technology use at work has been dictated by business requirements. Executives authorized technology purchases based on corporate needs and objectives. For example, new regulations led to email archiving systems and bigger customer rosters led to centralized customer relationship management (CRM) systems. More recently, this dynamic has shifted from enterprise-driven to employee-driven technologies, especially in the area of mobile devices and consumer technologies.
Businesses are Embracing Consumer Technologies
Rather than shut out mobile and consumer technologies, Avanade's survey shows companies are not only embracing these technologies in the workplace, they're enabling them.
Progressive Companies are Realizing the Most Reward
The most progressive companies that are redesigning how work gets done are building entirely new business processes around these trends to reap new benefits. Avanade calls this "Work Redesigned." According to Avanade's research:
These same progressive companies -- businesses that have embraced emerging mobile and consumer technologies and have established progressive policies and business processes to support them -- are seeing measurable impact and positive results on profitability, product development and employee satisfaction. More specifically Avanade's research reveals these companies are reporting, globally:
Benoit Bertrand, Avanade Canada CTO and vice president, said, "Mobile and consumer technologies are becoming predominant in the workplace and are driving the transformation of how work and business is done. Business and IT executives are not only embracing these technologies, they're enabling them and achieving measurable results including increased employee morale, enabling new product development and driving profitability."
Closing the Business and IT Gap
Avanade's global research also uncovered a significant gap in views between business leaders and IT regarding the role of mobile and consumer technologies in the enterprise. The disconnect between C-level executives and their IT staff may be the biggest factor limiting more widespread redesign of business processes enabled by mobile and consumer technologies. Security is often a chief concern with new technology adoption. However, security concerns reveal a disconnect between IT decision makers and business executives.
Successful companies are bridging these two views to achieve the best results.
To learn more about Avanade's view for new ways of getting work done, please click here.
About Avanade
Avanade provides business technology solutions and managed services that connect insight, innovation and expertise in Microsoft® technologies to help customers realize results. Our people have helped thousands of organizations in all industries improve business agility, employee productivity, and customer loyalty. Avanade combines the collective business, technical and industry expertise of its worldwide network of experts with the rigor of an industrialized delivery model to provide high quality solutions using proven and emerging technologies with flexible deployment models -- on premises, cloud-based or outsourced. Avanade, which is majority owned by Accenture, was founded in 2000 by Accenture LLP and Microsoft Corporation and has 17,000 professionals in more than 20 countries. Additional information can be found at www.avanade.com.
About the Survey
Avanade's survey was conducted by Wakefield Research (www.wakefieldresearch.com), an independent research firm. It surveyed 599 C-level executives, business unit leaders, and IT decision makers, ages 18 and older, at the top companies in the following countries: U.S., Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Malaysia, the Netherlands, Norway, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the U.K. The study was conducted between August 20 and September 13, 2012.
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