July - 2013 - issue > CIO Insights

The Usual Suspects are not the Real Trends

Walter Curd

Monday, July 1, 2013

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Based in Sunnyvale, Maxim Integrated Products (NASDAQ:MXIM) designs, manufactures, and sells high-performance semiconductor products. The company was founded in 1983 and has a market cap of $9.23 billion.

There are the usual suspects such as cloud, mobile, social and big data, but those are not the real trends that are impacting IT in our organization. They are tactical enablers. The trends that drive us from a strategic viewpoint are:

The business gets IT now

Company leaders and employees know that transformational change requires a new Business/IT relationship and, as a result, we have completely realigned our IT organization to support them.

The business demands ease of use