Deloitte has published its sixth annual report “Tech Trends 2015 – The Fusion of Business and IT” describing leading technology trends that have the potential to reshape business models, redefine customer relationships and change the way we work.
Across the private and public sectors, business strategies are being transformed by the rapidly changing technology landscape. CIOs and technology professionals have the opportunity to assess, prioritize, and invest in the rapid technological advances. Tech Trends 2015 examines how some of the biggest forces in technology – digital, analytics, cloud, core systems, cyber security, and the evolving role of IT in the enterprise – are driving historic developments in business, government, and society. Tech Trends 2015 also examines how major changes are being triggered in manufacturing, healthcare, financial services, and retail.
This year’s theme, “Tech Trends 2015: The Fusion of Business and IT,” is inspired by the fundamental shift in the way C-suite leaders and CIOs collaborate to address organizational change, design business strategies, and pursue transformational opportunities. Whether it’s a manufacturer examining the demand for printer parts or someone in healthcare looking at ways to leverage techniques to better predict and treat cancer, the convergence of business, technology, and science is evident across markets and industries.
The Tech Trends 2015 includes a “Lessons from the Front Lines” section, offering examples of businesses implementing these trends. It also includes a “My Take” section, in which business executives, academics and experts from various industries share their views on each trend. Recognizing the increasing importance of protecting ourselves in today’s global cyberspace, a “Cyber Implications” section has been added, which in each chapter explores the dynamic security and privacy implications of each trend.
Sample trends from "Tech Trends 2015: Fusion of Business and IT" include:
• Ambient Computing – Ambient computing is the set of sensors, devices, expertise and media that can form a network where data is exchanged between the manufacturer, the operator and the devices, resulting in maximum value and service (Internet of Things). The possibilities are endless thanks to the huge increase in connected systems in the enterprise and the world at large. Turning these capabilities into something usable for the business requires attention - the deliberate combination of “smart devices” with analytics, security, data and integration platforms so that different departments can collaborate with each other.
• The CIO as Chief Integration Officer – As technology transforms existing business models and creates new ones, the role of the CIO is rapidly evolving, with the ability to “integrate” becoming a core part of their mission. Increasingly, CIOs must leverage emerging and disruptive technologies in the enterprise while balancing future needs with today’s realities. They must view their responsibilities through a lens that encompasses the entire enterprise, ensuring that critical areas such as digital, analytics and cloud do not encourage unnecessary, conflicting or risky investments. In this ever-changing landscape of opportunities and challenges, CIOs can not only be the connecting link, but also the driving force behind major IT initiatives.
• Dimensional Marketing – Marketing has evolved significantly over the past five years. The evolution of digitally connected customers is at the forefront, reflecting the rapid changes in the dynamics between relationships and transactions. A new vision for Marketing is taking shape as CMOs and CIOs invest in marketing automation technologies, next-generation omni-channel approaches, content development, customer analytics and commercial initiatives. This new era for marketing is likely to bring new challenges in the context of customer engagement, data connectivity and information.
• IT Worker of the Future – The technology workforce shortage is a concern across many industries, with some companies facing the problem on multiple fronts. There is also an unprecedented need for new and different skills, such as creative design. To address these challenges, companies will need to cultivate a new type of worker, the so-called “IT Worker of the Future,” who possesses skills, habits and motivations different from those of today. They will also need to develop new techniques for organizing, delivering and evolving the role of IT.
In collaboration with Singularity University, the Tech Trends 2015 report includes a section dedicated to six exponentially growing technologies, i.e. technologies that are evolving faster than the rate predicted by Moore's Law and whose impact is expected to be powerful: artificial intelligence, robotics, 3D printing, quantum computing, industrial biology and cybersecurity.
[signoff icon=”icon-commented”]Nikos Aggouris, head of technology services at Deloitte Greece, stated: “Developments in Technology are exploding, transforming not only the way businesses operate regardless of size, purpose and geographical location, but also essentially transforming the functioning of the state and society.[/signoff]
Technology is a catalytic factor for the future and development of private sector businesses in a globalized environment where competition is constantly intensifying, transcending narrow geographical borders and customers and society are becoming more demanding in terms of communication and collaboration models. In the difficult economic environment experienced by Greek businesses and given their orientation to the domestic, but also the European and global market, the use of new technological solutions can be the vehicle for transforming their way of operating, improving their competitiveness.
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In the public sector, technology is inextricably linked to the ability to implement modern and effective public administration practices across the public sector, such as education, health, defense, local government or central government. Any operating model and any changes, reforms or other interventions in public administration are crucial to be supported by modern technological solutions and platforms.
Through these, the state shapes a modern operating model by guiding and defining modern ways of cooperation and communication with citizens, businesses, but also other states, global bodies and organizations with which it does business. Through new technological solutions, the state maximizes the results from the performance of its functions.
The state and businesses need to utilize new technologies to ensure their prospects in the modern environment, increase their competitiveness and improve their operating model.".
Source: zougla.gr
