Annually, CGI leaders around the world meet face-to-face with business and IT executives to gather their perspectives on the trends affecting their enterprises, including business and IT priorities, IT spending and investment plans. In 2019, we conducted in-person interviews with 75 client executives in communications who report that top of mind for them is meeting customer demands in a highly competitive environment by focusing on digitization, network investment, automation and agile delivery, with security and data privacy as ongoing imperatives.
Becoming digital to meet customer expectations remains driving force as network investment rises
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For the second year, communications executives cite becoming digital to meet customer expectations as the trend with the highest impact on their industry. Rising to become the second most impactful trend (from fifth last year) is increasing network investments, showing a significant increase in significance. |
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| Cybersecurity is the third most impactful trend, decreasing from second last year, followed by leveraging robotics and artificial intelligence to reduce costs and enhance the customer experience, which measures fourth in impact as it did last year. Assuring regulatory compliance is now considered fifth most impactful, decreasing from third last year. |
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Becoming digital organizations to meet customer expectations was the top trend in 2018, followed by protecting through cybersecurity, assuring regulatory compliance, leveraging automation and increasing network investment. |
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Key findings
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Cultural change and change management is the top challengeCultural change and technology constraints remain the two barriers named most by communications executives in 2019.
86% using cloud, with private cloud dominant
This year we asked communications industry executives to share how they are using cloud-based solutions: 26% use them for their own organization, 3% for customers, and 57% for both. Additionally, they indicated how their organization’s cloud usage is divided between private, public and hybrid clouds (as shown in the above chart). We asked if they have mechanisms in place to locate where key data assets are stored in the cloud, and 31% do not have clarity on this question.
Benchmarking clients’ satisfaction with their own IT organization
For the second year, business and IT executives interviewed ranked their satisfaction with their own IT organizations based on the 10 key attributes of a world-class IT organization. In the communications industry, IT executives give much higher satisfaction scores for their department’s ability to provide services aligned with business requirements, compared to business leader scores.
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Also see the industry summaries for our 2018 and 2017 CGI Client Global Insights.
