• IDC Insights:

    Industry Focus:

    • Energy
    • Financial
    • Government
    • Health
    • Manufacturing
    • Retail

    IDC Insights lines of business assist businesses and IT leaders in making more effective technology decisions by providing insightful fact-based research and consulting services. Our global research and analysis is focused on mitigating technology risks and maximizing the effectiveness of IT investments.

  • ENERGY

    Areas of expertise:

    • Smart Grid
    • Clean Energy
    • Intelligent Oil & Gas

    IDC Energy Insights assists energy businesses and IT leaders in making more effective technology decisions by providing insightful fact-based research and consulting services. Our global research analyzes and advises on business and technology issues facing the utility and oil & gas industries.

  • FINANCIAL

    Areas of expertise:

    • Mobile Banking and Payment
    • Enterprise Risk Management
    • Cash Management & Liquidity
    • Buy Side Operations

    IDC Financial Insights assists financial services business and IT leaders in making more effective technology decisions by providing insightful fact-based research and consulting services. Our global research analyzes and advises on business and technology issues facing the banking, insurance, and securities and investments industries.

  • GOVERNMENT

    Areas of expertise:

    • Infrastructure Consolidation
    • Open Government

    IDC Government Insights assists Government and IT leaders in making more effective technology decisions by providing insightful fact-based research and consulting services. Our global research analyzes and advises on business and technology issues facing the Federal/Central and local/provincial Governments.

  • HEALTH

    Areas of expertise:

    • EMR and EHR for Providers
    • Connected Health
    • Healthcare Industry Reform
    • Life Sciences Value Chain

    IDC Health Insights assists health businesses and IT leaders in making more effective technology decisions by providing insightful fact-based research and consulting services. Our global research analyzes and advises on business and technology issues facing the payer, provider and life sciences industries.

  • MANUFACTURING

    Areas of expertise:

    • Supply Chain Modernization
    • Next Generation Product Lifecycle Management
    • Operational Technology

    IDC Manufacturing Insights assists manufacturing businesses and IT leaders in making more effective technology decisions by providing insightful fact-based research and consulting services. Our global research analyzes and advises on business and technology issues associated with design, development and distribution of goods across markets.

  • RETAIL

    Areas of expertise:

    • Retail PLM and Sourcing Optimization
    • Customer Experience (Retail Omnichannel)
    • Merchandising Strategies

    IDC Retail Insights assists retail businesses and IT leaders in making more effective technology decisions by providing insightful fact-based research and consulting services. Our global research analyzes and advises on business and technology issues facing the retail industry.

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IDC Mentor Program
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The IDC Mentor Program is one way IDC supports collaboration, professional development and sharing of best practices for our employees. The program entails a one-year partnership with an individual in an employee's common functional area (analyst to analyst) or cross-functionally (consulting to sales). While employees in the Mentor Program are free to focus on any area of professional development they choose, IDC offers the following suggestions to help get them started:

  • Career management
  • Collaboration
  • Conflict management
  • Cross-functional training
  • Global perspective
  • Job specific training
  • Leadership skills
  • Life/work balance
  • Navigating IDC
  • Organizational development
  • Professional/personal achievement
  • Team building
"Mentees are able to ask questions that they may prefer not to ask their managers," noted Mark Levitt, Research Vice President in the IDeAS Research Group, who served as a mentor to Amy Harris Lind, a Program Manager in the Clients & Mobility Research Group. The program also gives relatively new employees a leg up on meeting colleagues and great insight into the corporate culture at IDC. "I can share lessons learned from experience at IDC and explain how I have dealt with situations similar to what Amy may be facing," Levitt said. Harris agreed, noting that one of her primary motivations for joining the program was "exposure to other people and groups within IDC and a chance to learn from their experiences and practices."