AVANT | State of Disruption | 3 This report is a critical tool in making those determinations based on the feedback and experiences of your peers. Transformation will continue to be necessary, but the executives who most competently make these transitions will reap the most rewards from their efforts. What does the imperative to transform mean to these enterprise technology decision makers? What does the rate of change look like across industries and company sizes? This report is designed to answer those questions. Methodology and Survey Logistics AVANT polled 500 U.S.-based enterprise decision makers at either the C-suite or Management/VP-level in IT, security or finance. To qualify for the survey, respondents had to be involved in choosing or helping their organization to implement new data network, voice or compute infrastructure technology including buying/ selecting new tools and services. Respondents include statistically significant subsets from the following five industries: Manufacturing, Financial Services, Healthcare/Medical, Ecommerce and Consulting/Business Services. Additionally, in order to ensure that the results of the survey are representative of the distribution of establishments in the U.S., a weighting scheme was applied based on number of employees in the respondent company. For a more detailed demographic breakdown and explanation of our weighting method, please reference “Respondent Demographics” section.