Trends Identified
Blockchain
The blockchain is not as revolutionary as artificial intelligence (AI), or as intuitive and user-friendly as voice control, but it will transform the way we handle finance, real estate, Internet of Things (IoT), the supply chain of most industries and much more. That’s why governments are rushing to incorporate it in every sense they can; they know the high cost of falling behind on this.
2018
2019 Tech Forecast: 11 Experts Predict The Next Wave Of Breakout Technologies
Forbes
Digital Technology
The branch of scientific or engineering knowledge that deals with creation and practical use of digital or computerised devices, methods, systems is named digital technology (Dictionary.com, 2015). The adoption of digital technology has had an enormous impact on economy, politics, personal life and society in terms of connectivity and interacting in real-time. Digitalisation of industries or sectors is providing new opportunities and enabling new business models such as sharing economy for environment and welfares.
2017
Science & Technology Foresight Malaysia
Malaysia, Academy of Sciences Malaysia
AI-Led Automation
The breakout technology of 2019 is definitely going to be AI-led automation. It’s expected that data mining and management, business processes, information technology (IT) services, customer support, and many other sectors will witness automation via neural networks and machine-learning-based solutions.
2018
2019 Tech Forecast: 11 Experts Predict The Next Wave Of Breakout Technologies
Forbes
Increasing national, regional and local budgetary deficits and diverging investment patterns in local and regional authorities
The budgetary deficits at national, regional and local level have risen, but the situation varies widely throughout the EU depending on economic and social positions. Also the investment climate has suffered with diverging borrowing costs and investment levels throughout the EU.
2014
Challenges at the horizon 2025
European Strategy and Policy Analysis System (ESPAS)
Increased inequality
The bulk of the worlds population, the middle class, particularly in western society has felt the squeeze due to stagnation in real earnings after inflation adjustments, loss of benefits and overall compensation as the private sector has sought to reduce expanses by outsourcing support and labour costs and shift to part time versus full time employment.
2017
Strategic foresight analysis
NATO
New kinds of services
The Canadian economy is dominated by the services sector, employing 78% of Canada’s workforce in 2012. Emerging technologies are likely to increase productivity, but may displace labour in both high- and low-skilled service jobs. Whole new employment and service opportunities are likely to emerge in areas such as professional and business-to-business services; care for aging populations; health care; culture and recreation; intangible products (concepts, designs, information, advice); and international trade-in-services.
2013
Metascan 3 emerging technologies
Canada, Policy Horizons Canada
Environmental/climate change
The changes in climate change will bring challenges and opportunities. The changes to the climate imposes stresses on current ways of life, on individual's ability to subsist and on governments' abilities to keep pace and provide for the needs of their populations
2017
Strategic foresight analysis
NATO
Capability Clouds
The cloud market evolves from capacity to capabilities For the past few years, the IT crowd has been enamored by “as-a-service” concepts and the potential to unleash the power of distributed computing, virtualization and ubiquitous networking. The message being spread is one of capacity and cost – the ability to tap into a nearly unlimited scale of computing power, storage, platforms and software with the hope of lower overall technology spending1 . Cheaper and faster are interesting terms to the bottom line, but better is a term that business can really get excited about
2011
Tech Trends 2011 The natural convergence of business and IT
Deloitte
THE RISE OF THE SUPER CMO
The CMO has been in the press a lot recently As the complexity of the marketing function rapidly increases, many CMOs are becoming nervous about the future — not only for their organisations, but also for their careers. However, a rising number of CMOs are attuned to how marketing is transforming, and are taking the necessary steps to ensure that they (and their organisations) can survive and thrive in the age of rampant disruption. This may be a long-term platform for radical change, or a shift to doing more transformational things on a smaller scale. It may be about rethinking the role technology plays, or shifting culture, or adding new capabilities. Whatever the nature and whatever the degree, almost all CMOs and their organisations are in some kind of Marketing Transformation, and if they’re not, they’re most likely thinking about it.
2019
The Ogilvy Consulting Trends for 2019
Ogilvy
Sharing Economy
The collaborative nature of the online environment has led to the rise of the sharing economy, in which technology is leveraged to unlock idle capacity and provide access to products through renting or borrowing.
2017
Beyond the Noise- The Megatrends of Tomorrow’s World
Deloitte