IDC PlanScape: IT Crisis Management

This IDC PlanScape aims to equip CIOs, CEOs, and technology leaders with the essential knowledge and practical guidance to enhance their leadership and improve their IT organizations' capabilities in managing and overcoming IT crises, as well as leveraging technology to enable the enterprise to navigate business crises. This document emphasizes the crucial role of IT in protecting the digital enterprise and provides actionable guidance for CIOs to enhance their crisis management capacity, focusing on proactive strategies, robust communication, and continuous learning to not only weather crises but also emerge stronger. "The imperative for organizations to prioritize and invest in robust IT crisis management capability has never been greater in today's increasingly volatile and digitally dependent world," says Serge Findling, adjunct research advisor with IDC's IT Executive Programs (IEP). "Crises don't define CIOs and IT organizations. However, the way they handle crises certainly does."