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QRG's Worldwide Research
In 2003, IDC's QRG conducted over 250,000 interviews in North America, Europe, Latin America and Asia. Interviews were conducted via multiple media, such as phone, in-person and over the Internet. IDC interviews IT directors and managers at businesses of all sizes, as well as C-level executives and those in Marketing, Finance, and Purchasing. And interviews with consumers provide important insight into the home marketplace.

Experience
IDC's QRG has over 50 collective years of primary research and market model development experience. Our extensive background includes designing and managing custom surveys and specialized analysis such as cluster analysis and predictive modeling, data from which feeds IDC's forecasts around the world. QRG also develops worldwide business and consumer models which are incorporated into IDC's technology forecasts. Members from the QRG team work closely with IDC analysts around the world to build and populate these critical forecasts of the fast changing IT marketplace.

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Survey Finding of the Week
According to a recent IDC survey, there are three predominant sources of influence on LOB executives' views about IT usage and business value: the media, the internal IT organization, and each executive's "word of mouth" network of business contacts. Indeed, each of these three exert significantly more influence than direct outreach by IT suppliers themselves.

....from IDC survey fo 200 US Line of Bsuiness Executives.

IDC FUTURESCAN is a collection of metrics of IT industry leading indicators and customer surveys. Values are based on expectations of future growth, with a value of 1000 equating to zero growth and each 10 points representing roughly 1% of expected growth.

These are external indicators only and don’t represent IDC’s forecast for the market, which is based on many more inputs and which relies on strict methodologies and market definitions.

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