Table of contents

ABOUT

INTRODUCTION

TERMINOLOGY

 PART I:  INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY TRENDS

1.   COMPUTER HARDWARE

       1.1     Processing power and cost 
       1.2     Storage
       1.3     Displays
       1.4     Energy
       1.5     Quantum and biological computing


2.   NETWORKS AND COMMUNICATIONS

       2.1     Coverage and capacity
       2.2     Convergence
       2.3     Network independent communications
       2.4     Transmission cost

 
3.   SOFTWARE

       3.1     Design, development and delivery
       3.2     Quality
       3.3     Capability

4.     DIGITAL INFORMATION

         4.0   Digital Information

 
5.    COMPOSITE TECHNOLOGY TRENDS

         5.1     Network as computer 
         5.2     Software as a service
         5.3     The participative web
         5.4     Social networking
         5.5     Video, audio and image processing
         5.6     Spatial information processing
         5.7     Smart, multimodal interfaces
         5.8     Augmented and virtual reality
         5.9     Semantic web
         5.10  Autonomy, robots and artificial intelligence
         5.11   Authentication
         5.12   Universal search
         5.13   Selected Technology milestones 

 
PART II:  IMPACTS ON BUSINESS, INDUSTRY AND WORK

6.     ORGANISATION

         6.1     Exponential outsourcing
         6.2     Network organisations
         6.3     Network dependencies


7.     PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

          7.1     Innovation ecosystems
          7.2     Prosumers
          7.3     Time to market 
          7.4     Accidental services
          7.5     Innovation transparency
 

8.     PRODUCTION AND SUPPLY CHAIN

          8.1     Adaptive production
          8.2     Decentralisation
          8.3     Tracking mobile assets
          8.4     Smart energy
          8.5     Supply chain visibility
          8.6     Electronic trading documents
          8.7     Flexible, resilient supply chains

 9.      CUSTOMER AND MARKET INTELLIGENCE

          9.1     New sources of intelligence
          9.2     Deeper insights
          9.3     Sentiment mining
          9.4     Risk analysis
          9.5     Shared intelligence
          9.6     Analytics economy
          9.7     Telescopes versus microscopes

10.    MARKETING

          10.1   Online channels
          10.2   Audience targeting and relevance
          10.3   Advertising efficiency
          10.4   Anti-ad effects
          10.5   Reputation management
          10.6   Politics

11.    SALES AND SERVICING

          11.1    Claims, bills and payments
          11.2    Online sales and servicing
          11.3    Call centres
          11.4    Field sales and servicing
          11.5    Retailing
          11.6    Banking and finance
          11.7    Insurance
          11.8    Health services

12.   KNOWLEDGE WORK

          12.1    Worker mobility
          12.2    Work structure, place and independence
          12.3    Connecting people
          12.4    Email and communications overload
          12.5    Collaboration and teamwork
          12.6    Augmented memory

13.    TRAINING AND LEARNING

          13.1     Online learning
          13.2     Nanolearning
          13.3     Interaction, immersion and participation
          13.4     Continuous education

14.    MANAGING PEOPLE

          14.1      Finding, hiring and retaining people
          14.2      Measuring performance
          14.3      Maintaining social capital

15.    CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

          15.1      Transparency
          15.2      Stakeholder participation
          15.3      Information latency
          15.4      Fuzzy reporting
          15.5      IT management

16.    ACCOUNTING AND COMPLIANCE

         16.1       Connected accounting
         16.2       Sustainability accounting
         16.3       Compliance reporting
         16.4       Other regulations

17.    SAFETY AND SECURITY

          17.1     Safety
          17.2     Securing information and documents
          17.3     Fraud detection
          17.4     Infrastructure and national security

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