S2 Innovation Review – 2H 2008
The S2 Innovation Review is published by S2 Intelligence to help the business strategist understand recent trends and developments that matter relating to IT and business innovation. This edition covers the period from July 2008 to January 2009.
Table of contents
Introduction
1. Cloud computing & business innovation
2. Altium: a case study
3. Prototyping [...]
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The S2 Innovation Review is published by S2 Intelligence to help the business strategist understand recent trends and developments that matter relating to IT and business innovation. This edition covers the period from December 2007 to June 2008.
Table of contents
Introduction
1. Automating green accounting
2. Projected costs for green accounting
3. Roles for [...]
TERMINOLOGY
September 28, 2009 – 6:45 pm
Business terms
Large business
Businesses employing 200 or more people. Where no size is specified, all predictions in this report refer to large organisations.
Medium business
Business employing 20-199 people.
Small business
Business employing 1-19 people.
Leader
Business quick to identify when an emerging technology will deliver value, and executes especially well in adopting and implementing it.
Routine
When a technology or practice is adopted as [...]
INTRODUCTION (2008)
September 28, 2009 – 6:16 pm
PURPOSE
This report was created to help businesses innovate. Over the next ten years information technology developments will change, profoundly, the way business is conducted. Early planning, and response, to these developments is critical to sustained business performance. It is intended for people in all types of roles—CEOs, innovation managers, strategists, financial officers, product managers—to equip [...]
17.4 Infrastructure and national security
September 18, 2009 – 12:56 am
Business security will increasingly overlap with national security. Physical and cyber attacks on civilian infrastructure, including banks, communications, electricity and water utilities, will increase in frequency.[i]
2012 Security staff at water and electricity facilities routinely monitor, on a single console, the precise location of all visitors at all times.
2014 Airports routinely use machines that measure facial [...]
17.3 Fraud detection
September 18, 2009 – 12:54 am
Fraud will be reduced through improvements in authentication infrastructure (Section 11.1) and also through more effective automated detection. Detection techniques will be applied to more types of information and more types of activity.
2010 20 percent of insurance companies analyse the speech of claimants for stress, and display real-time risk indicators to operators in claims processing [...]
17.2 Securing information and documents
September 18, 2009 – 12:52 am
Businesses will become better at blending social, procedural, organisational and technological measures to protect customer information, driven especially by wider appreciation of the role of human weaknesses in security exposures.[i] Compartmentalisation will become an important strategy as organisations recognise that, as long as information is accessed by people, security cannot be completely guaranteed.[ii]
2009 Leading healthcare [...]
17.1 Safety
September 18, 2009 – 12:50 am
Led by the defence sector, unmanned, optionally manned and remote-controlled vehicles will be much more widely used to eliminate human involvement from high-risk activities.
2011 Unmanned vehicles are routinely used for placing explosive charges in underground mining.
2015 Recovery of broken down vehicles on busy multilane freeways is routinely conducted by autonomous vehicles.
2017 Emergency services routinely deploy [...]
16.4 Other regulations
September 18, 2009 – 12:48 am
Governments will progressively increase the amount of regulation applicable to content (political activism, extremism, sedition, defamation, adult content, spam, etc) on the Internet. This will remain an immensely difficult area, and many regulations will be ineffective and poorly implemented.[i] Multiple regulatory approaches will, for the most part, increase the complexity of online commercial activity.
2010 Businesses [...]
16.3 Compliance reporting
September 18, 2009 – 12:15 am
Businesses will report more types of information, more frequently, to governments, customers and shareholders. The detail and frequency of sustainability reporting in particular will increase for all businesses.[i]
2011 Supermarkets routinely display carbon footprint information to customers for 30 percent of the products on their shelves.[ii]
2012 Product buyers in supermarket chains routinely incorporate supplier carbon footprints [...]