Forrester Urges IT Leaders To Dump Technical Debt
ComputerWeekly, Thursday, July 10th, 2025
IT needs to invest in innovative technologies and outsource legacy IT management to tackle volatile global markets, says Forrester
IT leaders should reduce their legacy IT to help them manage the risk and uncertainty facing businesses due to global volatility, according to analyst Forrester's 2026 Budget planning: prepare for even more volatility report, which recommends IT leaders to 'declare bankruptcy on legacy tech debt' before they collapse into it.
The analyst firm noted that running continually on a tech debt treadmill is not helping organisations to move forward. 'You're struggling with paying down tech debt, but more gets added to the pile all the time,' analysts Sharyn Leaver, Eric Brown, Riley McDonnell and Rachel Birrell noted in the report.