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IDC FutureScan

Leading IT Indicators

IDC's Leading IT Indicators service provides detailed insight into future economic and business factors expected to influence the growth of technology spending in 52 countries around the world.

This service focuses on leading indicators of economic and IT market activity and provides timely analysis of the impact of current economic conditions on investment in IT hardware, software, and services. The service also includes country-level analysis of government IT policies and technology infrastructure development.

For IDC FUTURESCAN the team developed the index weighting scheme, testing its predictive capabilities and calibrating the weightings on 10 years of historical macroeconomic data.

IDC US Executive Market Watch Survey Q2 2004

Macroeconomic Tidbit of the Week
The run-up of crude oil prices since January of $6 or more could lower the world's GDP by $35 billion and potential IT spending by $900 million.

 

IDC FUTURESCAN is a collection of metrics of IT industry leading indicators and customer surveys. Values are based on expectations of future growth, with a value of 1000 equating to zero growth and each 10 points representing roughly 1% of expected growth.

These are external indicators only and don’t represent IDC’s forecast for the market, which is based on many more inputs and which relies on strict methodologies and market definitions.

For more information about any of IDC's Black Books or other GRO products, please contact Amie White at awhite@idc.com

 
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