'Deloitte’s fifth annual Technology Trends report'. Ten trends 'that have the opportunity to impact organizations ... over the next 18 to 24 months', in Disruptors (1-5) and Enablers (6-10). First edition with an 'Exponentials' section (entries 11-15, written with Singularity University): five technologies 'that may take longer than our standard 24-month time horizon'; 'Many of these exponentials will likely create industry disruption in 24 months or more'. Trend quotes are from each chapter's opening abstract. Read from the Wayback Machine copy of the Deloitte Global PDF. Published month not stated.
Like venture capitalists, CIOs should actively manage their IT portfolio in a way that drives enterprise value and evaluate portfolio performance in terms that business leaders understand— value, risk, and time horizon to reward.
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Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and natural language processing have moved from experimental concepts to potential business disruptors
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Enterprise adoption of the power of the crowd allows specialized skills to be dynamically sourced from anyone, anywhere, and only as needed.
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Whether for customers, employees, or business partners, digital engagement is about creating a consistent, compelling, and contextual way of personalizing, delivering, and sometimes even monetizing the user’s overall experience
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The potential is tremendous: hands-free, heads-up technology to reshape how work gets done, how decisions are made, and how you engage with employees, customers, and partners.
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For IT to help drive business innovation, managing technical debt is a necessity.
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Over the years, the focus of social business has shifted from measuring volume to monitoring sentiment and, now, toward changing perceptions.
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Tactical adoption of cloud is giving way to the need for a coordinated, orchestrated strategy
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As in-memory technologies move from analytical to transactional systems, the potential to fundamentally reshape business processes grows.
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Popular in the agile world, DevOps capabilities are growing in many IT organizations with either waterfall or agile methodologies.
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Many of these exponentials will likely create industry disruption in 24 months or more, but there can be competitive opportunities for early adoption.
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Many of these exponentials will likely create industry disruption in 24 months or more, but there can be competitive opportunities for early adoption.
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Many of these exponentials will likely create industry disruption in 24 months or more, but there can be competitive opportunities for early adoption.
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Many of these exponentials will likely create industry disruption in 24 months or more, but there can be competitive opportunities for early adoption.
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Many of these exponentials will likely create industry disruption in 24 months or more, but there can be competitive opportunities for early adoption.
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