Amy Carrado Posts

Technology continues to be critically important for the success of all types of businesses. The top business priorities identified by the executives in CompTIA’s study across seven countries include building greater operational efficiencies, enhancing employee skills, and innovation.

According to CompTIA’s IT Industry Outlook 2014, IT services and software show the most growth potential for the year. The IT services market represents nearly a quarter (24 percent) of the total IT industry in the U.S. That translates to roughly $240 billion in IT services sales to be had this year in the U.S. alone.

We've heard a lot about the IT skills gaps in the U.S. But how are other countries faring on the IT skills front and, even more broadly, with technology adoption? Interestingly, more similarities than differences emerge across a wide array of countries; this according to CompTIA's recently conducted "International Technology Adoption & Workforce Issues" study. Some highlights: The importance of IT to business success continues to rise; strategic priorities increasingly include an IT componen ...

We’ve heard a lot about the IT skills gaps in the U.S. But how are other countries faring on the IT skills front and, even more broadly, with technology adoption? Interestingly, more similarities than differences emerge across a wide array of countries; this according to CompTIA’s recently conducted “International Technology Adoption & Workforce Issues” study. Some highlights: The importance of IT to business success continues to rise; strategic priorities increasingl ...

What sources do you rely on for reliable IT industry research and data? Some answers may include government data (e.g. BEA, BLS), research subscription services (e.g. IDC, Gartner), news websites (e.g. Channel Insider, CIO) and search engines (e.g. Bing, Google). That’s a lot of sources to dig through!Even then, there is still no guarantee of mining that “golden nugget” of information. Clearly, there must be a more efficient and effective way to search for that meaningful market size data, growt ...

Research, data, statistics, opinions, insights, trends... What aspects of CompTIA’s industry research provide value to you? In an effort to make your job easier, CompTIA research analysts work diligently every year to provide numerous studies that yield reams of valuable data. Incorporating statistics into your sales proposals and other collateral lends both content and credibility to your projects and can help you close business – especially if the data is from a third-party, vendor-neutral sou ...

Are there any employers who would dare claim professional development of their staff is not important? Our recent research study, Employer Perceptions of IT Training and Certification, confirms that is not likely. In fact, professional development is moderately to extremely important to the great majority of organizations (93%).However, as we all have witnessed, varying levels of employer support for staff development exists between organizations, dependent on factors such as company size, resou ...

Technicians with expertise in printing and document imaging are needed given the sheer number of printers, copiers and multi-functional devices and recent surge in shipment growth. For the first time in more than a decade, the worldwide hardcopy peripherals market experienced double-digit growth. According to IDC, the total market grew 20 percent year-over-year to 29 million units in the second quarter of 2010 while shipment value increased 14 percent year-over-year to $13.3 billion.Moreover, th ...

Did you know CompTIA members can provide input on the design of our industry research studies? So not only are the reports available to you for free, we invite members to review and comment on all our studies. We want your input on the scope to help ensure you get the answers you need and we’ll take it any way we can get it; whether it be via email, council or community conference call, online community discussion forum, etc.Even if you are a regular visitor to the CompTIA Member Resource Center ...

Last week I had the privilege of watching 15 doctors talk candidly about technology from behind a one-way mirror. The two focus groups, among general practitioners and specialists, were very educational and at times quite entertaining. While the information gleaned may not be representative of all doctors, it helps provide some qualitative insights around what doctors are really thinking about IT. I’d like to share with you some examples of the key themes and interesting points I saw emerg ...