2008 Business and Technology Trends
Friday: August 8, 2008 7:29 AM
Business and technology folks enjoy learning about the current trends and drivers toward
transformation. Business leaders do it in order to create strategies for the
future direction of the business and we, as technologists, do it because talking
about it makes us sound cool. Ok, that's
not really fair, or it it? I was perusing the web last week and
came across slide deck that described the transformation models for the next
generation of the enterprise. You can review the slide deck by
clicking here but I will warn you it's buried on slide 16 and almost
unreadable. That being said, here they are along with an indication of the
direction of the trend.
A couple worthy of noting: our work ethic is declining, utilization of
collaborative applications is increasing, company loyalty is down (both ways) as
is the size of the workforce. If you could imagine an organization being
describe by these factors it would be small, fast, agile, flexibly, innovative,
and fleeting. Does that describe your organization? Which trends do you agree or disagree with?
Economic Trends
- Lifetime of Products and Services +
- Global Innovation +
- Innovation and Growth Cycle +
- Enterprise Number of Employees -
- Number of Independent Contractors +
- Work Movement Freedom +
- Enterprise Efficiency +
- Enterprise Revenues -
- Enterprise Profits +
- Multi-Language +
- Constant Change +
- Systems Complexity +
- Economic Instability +
- Individual Education Level +
- Cost of Collaboration -
- Open Intellectual Property +
- Building 21 Century Economic Model (Fast, Flexible, Productive) +
- Internet Industry Winners +
Social Trends
- Individual Lifespan +
- Population +
- Need to Share Information +
- Belief Access to Digital Content is Free +
- Work Ethic -
- Openness +
- Peering +
- Sharing +
- Multi-User Participation +
- Always Connected +
- Security Concerns +
- Security Incidents +
- Privacy -
- Size of Workforce -
- Size of N-Generation +
Business Trends
- Need for Predictability +
- Time to Market -
- Collaboration within Ecosystem +
- Customer Personalization +
- Personal Interaction +
- Electronic Business +
- Value Products and Services +
- Cost of Products and Services -
- Transaction Based Pricing +
- Organization Dynamic Configuration +
- Western Business Tenets +
- Employee and Employer Loyalty -
Environment Trends
- Green +
- Nuclear Power Generation +
- Energy Cost +
- Natural and Un-Natural Disasters +
Technology Trends
- Technology Amplifies Culture +
- Network Centric Enterprise +
- Ubiquitous Edge Devices +
- Information Explosion +
- Web 3.0 Semantic +
- Integration of Software Engineering and System Engineering +
- Complexity of IT Systems +
- Criticality of Software Intensive Systems +
- Agents and Sensors +
- Security Context Awareness +
- Enterprise Use of Animation +
- Bandwidth +
- Processing Power +
- Modeling and Simulation Usage +
- Hardware Component Power +
- Search Engine Predicting +
- Open Source Platform Usage +
- Legacy Systems Value -
- Nanotechnology Value +
Business and technology folks enjoy learning about the current trends and drivers toward transformation. Business leaders do it in order to create strategies for the future direction of the business and we, as technologists, do it because talking about it makes us sound cool. Ok, that's not really fair, or it it? I was perusing the web last week and came across slide deck that described the transformation models for the next generation of the enterprise. You can review the slide deck by clicking here but I will warn you it's buried on slide 16 and almost unreadable. That being said, here they are along with an indication of the direction of the trend.
A couple worthy of noting: our work ethic is declining, utilization of collaborative applications is increasing, company loyalty is down (both ways) as is the size of the workforce. If you could imagine an organization being describe by these factors it would be small, fast, agile, flexibly, innovative, and fleeting. Does that describe your organization? Which trends do you agree or disagree with?
Economic Trends
- Lifetime of Products and Services +
- Global Innovation +
- Innovation and Growth Cycle +
- Enterprise Number of Employees -
- Number of Independent Contractors +
- Work Movement Freedom +
- Enterprise Efficiency +
- Enterprise Revenues -
- Enterprise Profits +
- Multi-Language +
- Constant Change +
- Systems Complexity +
- Economic Instability +
- Individual Education Level +
- Cost of Collaboration -
- Open Intellectual Property +
- Building 21 Century Economic Model (Fast, Flexible, Productive) +
- Internet Industry Winners +
Social Trends
- Individual Lifespan +
- Population +
- Need to Share Information +
- Belief Access to Digital Content is Free +
- Work Ethic -
- Openness +
- Peering +
- Sharing +
- Multi-User Participation +
- Always Connected +
- Security Concerns +
- Security Incidents +
- Privacy -
- Size of Workforce -
- Size of N-Generation +
Business Trends
- Need for Predictability +
- Time to Market -
- Collaboration within Ecosystem +
- Customer Personalization +
- Personal Interaction +
- Electronic Business +
- Value Products and Services +
- Cost of Products and Services -
- Transaction Based Pricing +
- Organization Dynamic Configuration +
- Western Business Tenets +
- Employee and Employer Loyalty -
Environment Trends
- Green +
- Nuclear Power Generation +
- Energy Cost +
- Natural and Un-Natural Disasters +
Technology Trends
- Technology Amplifies Culture +
- Network Centric Enterprise +
- Ubiquitous Edge Devices +
- Information Explosion +
- Web 3.0 Semantic +
- Integration of Software Engineering and System Engineering +
- Complexity of IT Systems +
- Criticality of Software Intensive Systems +
- Agents and Sensors +
- Security Context Awareness +
- Enterprise Use of Animation +
- Bandwidth +
- Processing Power +
- Modeling and Simulation Usage +
- Hardware Component Power +
- Search Engine Predicting +
- Open Source Platform Usage +
- Legacy Systems Value -
- Nanotechnology Value +
