Top level ITCandor's 2023 sizing and 2024-25 forecast for the ITC industry, discussing regions, categories and vendors. Read more »
ITC regional and category forecasts – the small growth of a massive, but disaggregating, market
1. The total ITC market will see zero spending growth, remaining level at $7.1 trillion
The 2021-2023 flat-line growth in spending of the ITC industry looks likely to continue. My first prediction (see my Figure above) is for total spending to remain at its current $7.1 trillion level for another year. Although inflation in many markets has been successfully reduced, we have yet to see […] Read more »
Q2 2023 ITC spending – declines in memory and devices, growth in AI hardware
A look at the major spending movements in the UTC market workdwide in Q2 2023 Read more »
2023 ITC predictions – give Peace a chance!
My 10 predictions for the ITC market worldwide in 2023. Enjoy! Read more »
My 360° insight into the $7.3 trillion post-pandemic ITC market
A multi-dimensional look at the worldwide IT and communications market Read more »
ITCandor’s 2022 predictions for the New Year
I’m not surprised my predictions of 2021 were more inaccurate than in earlier years. We are living through unprecedented changes in society due to serious weather events created by global warming, an on-going pandemic with the potential for devastating viral mutation, serious territorial conflicts between Russia and the Ukraine, China […] Read more »
The total ITC market grows by 4% to reach $7.6 trillion; net profit, by 9% to $1.3 trillion
Spending on ITC in 2022 will grow 4% to reach $7.5 trillion and vendors will grow their net earnings by 5% to $1.2 trillion; both of these sums will be world records. Read more »
Apple – how much bigger can it grow?
Apple is the largest IT company in the world. It’s revenues were $294 billion in 2020 – the equivalent of everyone alive on the planet spending $26.52 on its offerings. It’s business grew substantially on the introduction of the iPhone, expanded as we recovered from the Credit Crunch and has […] Read more »
ITCandor’s 2021 predictions for the New Year
An introduction to ITCandor's 2021 predictions Read more »
ITC and the pandemic – how ‘digital’ helps when ‘physical’ interactions are limited
A look at changes in ITC spending by category in Q2 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic surged Read more »
How the top ITC suppliers are helping during the pandemic
A review of the things the top ITC suppliers are doing to help during the COVID-19 pandemic Read more »
The ITC market’s top suppliers – a 10-year perspective
Having made my predictions for the year, I wanted to follow up with the long-term vendor share developments in the ITC industry. In the Figure above I show market shares for the top 12 suppliers in the years to then of September in 2009 and 2019. There have been a […] Read more »
ITCandor publishes its predictions for the ITC industry in 2022
PRESS RELEASE – Didcot, December 31st, 2021 ITC 2022 – predictions for a better year ITCandor has published its 12th set of annual predictions. These are the 10 ideas for the ITC industry in 2022: Read more »
1. The overall ITC market will grow by 0.8% to $6.849 trillion
Overall I expect world spending on all offerings to grow by just 0.8% to $6.849 billion; for the vendors net profits will increase by 0.1% to $730 billion, while their combined headcount will grow by 1.1% to 20.9 million. Navigate our predictions – intro 1 2 3 4 5 6 […] Read more »
2. The Americas will lead regional ITC spending growth
On a regional level (see my Figure) I expect the Americas to do best with a 1.6% growth to $2.659 trillion, followed by Asia Pacific (+0.8% to $2.187 trillion); I expect business in EMEA to decline slightly by 0.1% to $2.006 trillion. Americas’ rise in the chart is due in […] Read more »