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Industry-leading insights from New Zealand senior leaders and market analysts

IDC InfoBrief: New Zealand’s State of Agility 2021

The 2021 IDC InfoBrief: New Zealand State of Agility report shares key insights from hundreds of New Zealand senior and mid-level management across commercial and public sector organisations.

Sponsored by Datacom, the IDC InfoBrief outlines the concept of digital agility and its importance to New Zealand organisations’ future success. IDC InfoBrief is split into two reports, with one focusing on insights for the public sector and one focused on opportunities and challenges faced by the private sector.

All organisations surveyed are optimistic about the future, with the public sector citing their priorities to be focused on becoming a digital or data-driven intelligent enterprise, improving customer experience, and working towards higher living standards for New Zealanders. Similarly, the private sector focuses on improving operational efficiencies, customer experience and agility.

Of those surveyed, 57% of public sector organisations and 66% of private sector organisations said agility is extremely or very important to their future success.

The success for all organisations in achieving their priorities will be driven by their ability to innovate and to adapt to change. Today, agility has become a highly sustainable competitive advantage.

The findings reveal how and where digitally-enabled agility can provide a critical market advantage to New Zealand organisations.

Download IDC InfoBrief: New Zealand’s State of Agility 2021 and get industry-leading insight from New Zealand senior leaders and market analysts.

  • 78% of businesses have plans in place to improve agility within the next year.

    of NZ organisations have strategic plans to improve their agility

  • Digitally agile organisations are 3x more confident to meet market goals

    Digitally agile NZ organisations are 3x more confident to meet market goals

  • 13%  of organisations are agility leaders, yet 55 per cent believe they’re more agile than their peers.

    of NZ companies are agility leaders. 55% think they're more agile vs peers

The need for the public sector to be agile and responsive is more pressing than ever before.

The modern demands of the public sector, at every level of government and to every public service and platform, continues to bring new challenges to the market. Expectations born in the private sector are increasingly driving constant change, and new technologies and transactional platforms bring new opportunities and challenges every day.

Download the IDC InfoBrief: New Zealand’s State of Agility 2021 — Public Sector to get insight from public sector leaders on how digitally-enabled agility will continue to define successful outcomes.

Download IDC InfoBrief - Public Sector now.

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Responding to rapid change has never been more important.

Business is changing faster, and the challenges of 21st-century economies are evident everywhere. From talent shortages and remote workforces, supply chain tension and geopolitical volatility, and shifting customer demand and aggressive competition — change and uncertainty are the norms.

Discover how organisations in the private sector are meeting these challenges, and leveraging their newfound focus on agility.

Download the IDC InfoBrief: New Zealand’s State of Agility 2021 — private sector, to see how digitally-enabled agility will continue to define successful outcomes.

Download IDC InfoBrief - Private Sector now.

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