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1. Outsourcing of engineering services and

manufacturing to low-cost countries is
adding significant cost and complexity to
the IT environment.
2. IT organizations are being asked to rapidly
extend in-house engineering/product data
management systems and supporting
infrastructure to outsource providers, having to jury-rig network architectures and
application configurations to systems that weren't designed to extend halfway around the
world.
3. Moving from legacy country/region-specific applications to single global instances of
common applications is driving changes to IT delivery models.
4. Support for global systems and infrastructure is driving consolidation of country/region-
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5. IT is often caught between the new global application's need for common processes and
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6. Companies are struggling to replace the
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governance processes that linked IT and
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7. Changes and increased complexity are

stretching IT organizations to their limits
in terms of both capacity and
competency.
8. Companies are finding that they don't
have the IT leadership (either at the CIO Mark Peacock, principal, Archstone Consulting
 or at the VP level) with the skills necessary to address these new challenges.
9. Companies also don't have the internal skills/experience -- because of low turnover,
stable/shrinking budgets and little external hiring -- to develop adequate solutions. Trending on IndustryWeek

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11. This increasing virtualization requires a new set of skills for IT employees -- a shift from
managing people and activities to managing processes and outcomes. In many IT Study Finds Manufacturers are Profiting from
departments, these new skills are not core strengths of the remaining IT staff. Leading the IoT
companies are attempting to re-skill their employees, though many companies are not
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