Managed IT services are going to take the place of the CIO position altogether by enabling faster internal business and technical innovation with smaller teams of functional experts incurring smaller costs and requiring little to no central management.

Source: http://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2014/06/19/why-you-should-eventually-fire-your-cio/

Jessica Adams says the reasons to consider managed IT services include less downtime, proactive prevention rather than reactive, and heightened security necessary for increasing mobile access to sensitive data.

Source: http://www.whitehatvirtual.com/blog/5-reasons-to-consider-managed-it-services

Gartner predicts that changes in technology will cause more companies to seek managed IT services. Gartner says they’ll have to do it to keep up with rapid changes and developments in the digital business environment.

Source: http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2685515

Computing Technology Industry Association’s poll of 400 IT and business professionals that found that almost half of organizations that use managed IT services say they’ve reduced their IT budgets by 25 percent by using managed services. Additionally, 13 percent of respondents estimated their savings to be 50 percent or more.

Source: http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/Commentary/Do-Managed-Services-Really-Save-Money-608662