Results from Survey of U.S. Corporations -- "A majority of U.S.-based companies that claim to use competitive intelligence (CI) to guide their decision-making processes either don�t use intelligence enough or use it the wrong way. This excludes nearly 30 percent of companies that don�t even have, or don�t feel the need for, a CI system, despite today�s ultra-competitive environment. These are two of the key findings in Ostriches & Eagles, a survey conducted by business intelligence consultants Outward Insights LLC on the effectiveness and use of CI across a number of industries."
Gartner's latest worldwide IT spending forecast exposes a trend every CIO has already felt in budget negotiations. Total spending will climb 14.2 percent in 2026, reaching $6.37 trillion. It seems that the IT infrastructure market is simply having a strong year. However, the more useful insight is how unevenly that growth is distributed. The Headline Number vs. The Real Story Data center systems and infrastructure as a service (IaaS) are absorbing capital at a pace several multiples faster than devices, communications services, and traditional IT services. This is not incremental growth spread across a healthy portfolio. It is a wholesale reallocation of enterprise technology budgets toward AI infrastructure, made on the expectation that demand for AI workloads will justify the outlay before that demand has been fully proven. Where the Money is Going Data center systems are forecast to grow 62.5 percent in 2026, that's up from 51.6 percent growth in 2025, reaching $822 billion....