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Tracking the most adopted and most effective IT strategies

Downturn strategies

The Effective IT Report – Information Age’s annual survey that examines which IT strategies have been adopted by readers, and how effective they are perceived to be – has found some IT strategies to be consistently popular.

For the fifth time in as many years, the most widely adopted strategy was having ‘Encouraged/supported remote or mobile working’. Of the 302 IT directors, managers and practitioners – largely based in the UK – who responded to the survey, 77.9% had adopted that particular strategy.

Joining it at the top of the adoption charts were ‘Used videoconferencing’ and ‘Used asset... read more...


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