Predicting the next decade of tech: From the cloud to disappearing computers and the rise of robots
November 3, 2014
Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Steve Ranger.
For an industry run according to logic and rationality, at least outwardly, the tech world seems to have a surprising weakness for hype and the ‘next big thing’. Perhaps that’s because, unlike — say — in sales or HR, where innovation is defined by new management strategies, tech investment is very product driven.
Buying a new piece of hardware or software often carries the potential for a ‘disruptive’ breakthrough in productivity or some other essential business metric. Tech suppliers therefore have a vested interest in promoting their products as vigorously as possible: the level of spending on marketing and customer acquisition by some fast-growing tech companies would turn many consumer brands green with envy…
As a result, CIOs are tempted by an ever-changing array of tech buzzwords (cloud, wearables and the Internet of Things [IoT] are prominent in the recent crop) through which they must sift in order to find the concepts that are a good fit for their organisations, and that match their budgets, timescales and appetite for risk. Short-term decisions are relatively straightforward, but the further you look ahead, the harder it becomes to predict the winners…
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