1. Frank E. Gillett, Vice President, Principal Analyst
Webinar Info Workers Will Erase The Boundary Between Enterprise And Consumer Technologies: A Global Forecast Through 2016
Frank E. Gillett, Vice President, Principal Analyst
November 14, Call in at 10:55 a.m. Eastern time
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2. Theme
Information workers will grow in importance as their tech use at home and work makes them market leaders worldwide.

3. Agenda Who are information workers and why do they matter?
How many of these individuals exist, and where are they located?
What are the implications of their behaviors for CIOs and the tech industry?

4. CIOs face a wave of bottom-up employee tech initiatives
Employees are:
Using a growing variety and number of devices to get work done.
Bringing their own technology to work or using it for work at home.
Blending work and personal tasks and devices.
Embracing vendors new to enterprise IT, such as Apple and Dropbox.
Empowering themselves to invent new business tactics and strategies.

5. Half of global info workers are juggling three or more devices they use for work . . .
Source: February 22, 2012, “Info Workers Using Mobile And Personal Devices For Work Will Transform Personal Tech Markets” Forrester report 5

6. . . . and blending work and personal use
Source: February 22, 2012, “Info Workers Using Mobile And Personal Devices For Work Will Transform Personal Tech Markets” Forrester report 6

7. Yet North American and European IT buyers don’t see high multidevice use beyond executives and IT
Source: February 22, 2012, “Info Workers Using Mobile And Personal Devices For Work Will Transform Personal Tech Markets” Forrester report 7

8. Globally, more than half of info workers engage in BYO behavior at work
Source: June 12, 2012, “Charting The Rising Tide Of Bring-Your-Own Technology” Forrester report 8

9. Globally, one in five info workers use an Apple product for work
Source: January 26, 2012, “Apple Infiltrates The Enterprise And Reshapes The Markets For Personal Devices At Work” Forrester report 9

10. Technology markets are colliding
Source: August 30, 2012, “Info Workers Will Erase The Boundary Between Enterprise And Consumer Technologies” Forrester report

11. Info worker definition
Employees who use an Internet-connected computing device — such as a PC, tablet, or smartphone — for work for an hour or more per day
Image Source: Forrester’s Forrsights For Business Technology (
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12. Info workers are leading adopters of new tech and behaviors
Information workers:
Are more likely to adopt new technologies and new technology behaviors.
Have higher incomes, on average, than non-information workers.
Are more likely to be thought leaders and influence other workers and customers.
Are more proactive in emerging markets than in developed ones.

13. Info workers are more likely to adopt tablets than other individuals . . .
Across the globe, info workers are 1.5x to 4x more likely than non-information workers to own a tablet!
Source: August 30, 2012, “Info Workers Will Erase The Boundary Between Enterprise And Consumer Technologies” Forrester report

14. . . . and have attractive demographics and behaviors
Info workers have a higher average income than the non-information worker online population. We see this trend amplified in the developing world — the average info worker in China is 29% more likely to be within a high-income bracket than the average non-info worker and 93% more likely in Brazil versus 10% more likely in the US. Info workers have influence over the technology use of their co- workers, customers, friends, and families. Info workers are more likely to give technology advice to others, be optimistic about using technology, and want to show off their lifestyle to others.
Source: Global Consumer Technographics® surveys (see the appendix for a comprehensive list of the surveys used for this report).

15. Agenda Who are information workers and why do they matter?
How many of these individuals exist, and where are they located?
What are the implications of their behaviors for CIOs and the tech industry?

16. The information worker population is not well documented — so we sized it
Sizing is based on the Forrester Research World Online Population Forecast, 2011 To 2016 (Global).
It follows the ForecastView region taxonomy:
62-country breakout plus aggregates for others in region.
We identify info workers using available Consumer Technographics® questions:
Those using the Internet on a PC for work 5 hours or more per week.
Adjusted for urban-only survey results in developing countries
Note: The new Forrester Research World Online Population Forecast, To 2017 (Global) is based on using a PC or mobile device. The data shows a new breed of mobile-only online users emerging in the developing world, with a concentration in the Middle East.

17. We used several indicators to estimate info worker population growth worldwide
Macroeconomic variables like growth in IT spending as a percentage of GDP Demographics of income distribution, urbanization growth, and education spend Technology adoption using tablet adoption as a proxy

18. 555 million info workers in 2012 will grow to 865 million in 2016
The information worker population is:
Growing at 13% per year — twice as fast as the online population.
Regional growth rates vary from 5% in North America to 17% in the Middle East and Africa.
Concentrated in Asia, which is already the largest region and is growing fast.
From just more than half to almost 60% of all info workers by 2016
Growing at 16% annually

19. The global information worker population will reach 865 million in 2016
Source: August 30, 2012, “Info Workers Will Erase The Boundary Between Enterprise And Consumer Technologies” Forrester report

20. Agenda Who are information workers and why do they matter?
How many of these individuals exist, and where are they located?
What are the implications of their behaviors for CIOs and the tech industry?

21. CIOs and vendors must support info workers holistically in their jobs and careers
They switch back and forth between work and personal tasks throughout their day. They work from many locations, not just the office, and use the office for personal activities. They blend work and personal activities on their PCs and mobile devices.

22. Supporting info workers holistically will lead to many benefits
Enthusiastic adoption of technology-based processes Attraction and retention of high-potential employees Improved worker productivity Improved perceptions of and trust in IT and consumer technology suppliers More successful workplace or customer technology offerings

23. Tech vendors will morph to serve info workers across work and personal lives
Make the design more user-friendly and holistic. Embrace new business models that sell directly to individuals, not just IT. Transform marketing and sales to communicate and sell to individuals. Transform support with prevention and self-help.

24. Catering to info workers will mean big changes for CIOs
Security will be based on Zero Trust plus securing mixed work and personal data and applications in most roles and companies. Governance will have to add policies and strategies for interacting with employees’ social accounts, file sharing, and mobile apps. Enterprise architecture will have to include complex interaction with employee data, in the same way that partner data is managed today. Technology sourcing and vendor selection will have to expand and adjust to a new focus on end user needs and efficiency, not just IT admin control and security.

25. Frank E. Gillett

26. Appendix: Consumer Technographics® surveys
5,130 US online adults — North American Technographics Telecom And Devices Online Recontact Survey, Q (US)
5,096 Canadian online adults — North American Technographics Telecom And Devices Online Recontact Survey, Q (US)
12,730 European online adults — European Technographics Consumer Technology Online Survey, Q4 2011
1,972 Russian online adults — European Technographics Online Benchmark Survey, Q3 2011
1,949 metro Mexican online adults — Latin American Technographics Online Survey, Q (Mexico, Brazil, Argentina)
1,884 metro Brazilian online adults — Latin American Technographics Online Survey, Q (Mexico, Brazil, Argentina)
1,957 metro Argentinian online adults — Latin American Technographics Online Survey, Q (Mexico, Brazil, Argentina) 26

27. Appendix: Consumer Technographics® surveys (cont.)
1,845 metro Chinese online adults — Asia Pacific Technographics Online Survey, Q3 2011
1,958 metro Indian online adults — Asia Pacific Technographics Online Survey, Q3 2011
1,050 metro Japanese online adults — Asia Pacific Technographics Online Survey, Q3 2011
1,000 metro Australian online adults — Asia Pacific Technographics Online Survey, Q3 2011 27