At a country level sales in the USA will continue to be far the largest (31% of the world), although I expect the 2024 total will be very slightly down on 2023. I expect Japan and Australia to see the strongest growth (2.6% in both). Of the other major country […] Read more »
European and Japanese suppliers fall behind US and Chinese ones
In my 8th prediction for 2019 I discuss the continued fall of Japanese and European suppliers as global players Read more »
2017 prediction 2 – oil producing countries back on tap or sales growth
Japan will grow most, Russia least; oil producing countries will return to growth. Read more »
Brexit – selling UK IT assets by the pound
Source: ITCandor from OANDA historical data Part of my methodology each quarter is to look at currency movements of international currency against the $US. My Figure shows the movement of the average value of each local currency in Q2 2016 compared with their rates in Q2 2015. Those on the […] Read more »
2016 prediction 5 – Chinese spending declines in the lacklustre Asia Pacific market
Japan and China will be the two largest IT and communications markets in Asia Pacific. For the first time in a number of years I’m not predicting that the region will outgrow the Americas and EMEA: in fact I expect we’ll see a decline in spending in most countries. Even […] Read more »
Toshiba’s woes and the Japanese triple whammy
A look at how Toshiba can rescue itself from its current woes. Read more »
Japanese Cloud Computing – Massive Growth To ¥8.5T ($103B) By 2015
The Japanese Cloud Computing market is different - less dominated by large US companies and with different cultural expectations. Read ITCandor's latest sizing, forecast and analysis. Read more »