As we explore various aspects of The Global 5000 companies, their size, footprint and spending power is unmistakable. They make the most money and spend the most money compared to any other segment of the market. One area of spending we looked at is IT. Taking available data on the % of revenue spent on IT across a number of verticals, we applied those percentages to the revenue of each company in The Global 5000 database. From there, we totaled those IT dollars for each major industry group. Overall, these represent over $1.2 trillion of IT budgets. Here are the spending totals ...Read More »

An article posted on Yahoo business today was interesting in that it brought to light the concept that some technology markets have matured and technology based companies are starting to think about the business differently. This was about Samsung Electronics selling off some of the storage businesses to Seagate -- both Global 5000 companies. With technology constantly in the news - whether it be the latest mobile device to compete with the iPad or a Smartphone or a new wave of social media -- we tend to lump them all in together as technology. And we tend to lump all ...Read More »