IBM 2012 Tech Trends Report now available

IBM has published its 2012 Tech Trends Report: Fast Track to the Future based on a survey of over 1,200 IT professionals worldwide.  Mobile is featured prominently in the report.  Key insights from the study:

• Only one in 10 organizations surveyed reported that they have all the skills they need for the four emerging technologies (cloud computing, business analytics, mobile computing and social business)
• Business analytics and mobile are leading in deployment with roughly 50 percent of survey respondents having deployed
• 49 percent of respondents have deployed mobile
• Top three barriers to adoption of mobile according to those surveyed: Security (61 percent); integration of Mobile with existing infrastructure and data (44 percent); and difficulty extending existing applications to Mobile (38 percent)
• 69 percent plan to increase mobile investment in the next two years, with 35 percent planning to increase it 10 percent or more
• Over the next two years, 31 percent of respondents will start allowing BYOD – making it the norm for 76 percent of respondents
• 43 percent of respondents say their IT security policies don’t meet the needs of mobile computing

What are your thoughts on mobile?  Is your enterprise ahead of curve in deploying mobile technologies and what best practices have you learned?

Links:
My summary of the 2011 Tech Trends Report
My IBM DeveloperWorks interview on the 2011 Tech Trends Report