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Eight in 10 Enterprises Turn to Citizen Developers For Innovation
A recent survey of IT and business decision-makers around the world found 80% of new enterprises are forming partnerships with emerging groups like citizen developers.
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A recent IBM survey of more than 1,400 information technology (IT) and business decision-makers in 15 industries across five continents found that 80% of enterprises are forming new partnerships with emerging groups such as citizen developers to close to the skills gap for application development.
These partnerships are needed because 40% of organizations reported a moderate-to-major skills gap across mobile, cloud, social, and analytics technologies even though these technologies drive key innovations.
IBM's Sandy Carter says the study focused on common traits of "pacesetters," organizations that are achieving tangible business results from cloud, mobile, analytics, and social technologies. Carter says pacesetters often rely on citizen developers, an emerging group of industry professionals who create new business applications and help with IT decisions as a side venture. Pacesetter organizations also are twice as likely to turn to academia for product development and 70% more likely to turn to startups for execution, according to the report.
"I love the idea of utilizing the talents of these scrappy citizen developers out there who are skilled in creating applications," Carter says.
The report notes pacesetter organizations are up to seven times more likely to use cloud technology to deliver social, mobile, big data, and analytics capabilities.
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