Trends Identified
Digital Platforms
As digital business moves away from siloed business ventures and toward interconnected ecosystems, technology is evolving from compartmentalized technical infrastructure to ecosystem enabling platforms. Businesses must think about how to create platform-based business models and what technology is needed to support that move.
2017
Top Trends in the Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, 2017
Gartner
Changing domestic determinants
As demonstrated most recently by the Arab Spring, however, the possibility of widespread changes in the relationship between the governing and the governed is likely. The era of dictators seems to be coming to an end – at least, of dictatorships as we know them – although it is still too early to tell. The power of social media, rising standards of living, increasing access to education, and urbanization will all drive citizens to demand more of their governments.
2011
Megatrends and the future of humanitarian action
International Review of the Red Cross
Destination: data
As data becomes a hotter topic in 2018, people will be radically re-appraising their attitudes and behaviour towards it.
2018
2018 trends
Mindshare
Crowdsourcing
As consumers are increasingly interconnected through social media platforms and with the rise of digitalization, collective intelligence gathering is being leveraged to elicit perspectives and insights from a wide variety of individuals.
2017
Beyond the Noise- The Megatrends of Tomorrow’s World
Deloitte
Climate Change
As climate change continues, natural disasters and abnormal weather patterns will increasingly have effects on our socioeconomics, demographics, crop production, food security, migration, and political landscape in unprecedented ways.
2017
Beyond the Noise- The Megatrends of Tomorrow’s World
Deloitte
Increased stress and damage to vulnerable ecosystems and habitats
As cities expand into the countryside, the habitats of many animals and plants are reduced. Roads and other infrastructure are carving valuable habitats dividing wildlife populations into increasingly smaller groups. This has serious consequences for some of Europe’s most endangered species.
2014
Challenges at the horizon 2025
European Strategy and Policy Analysis System (ESPAS)
No-collar workforce- humans and machines in one loop- collaborating in roles an new talent models
As automation, cognitive technologies, and artificial intelligence gain traction, companies may need to reinvent worker roles, assigning some to humans, others to machines, and still others to a hybrid model in which technology augments human performance. Managing both humans and machines will present new challenges to the human resources organization, including how to simultaneously retrain augmented workers and to pioneer new HR processes for managing virtual workers, cognitive agents, bots, and the other AI-driven capabilities comprising the “no-collar” workforce. By redesigning legacy practices, systems, and talent models around the tenets of autonomics, HR groups can begin transforming themselves into nimble, fast-moving, dynamic organizations better positioned to support the talent—both mechanized and human—of tomorrow.
2017
Tech trends 2018
Deloitte
Automatic for the people
As automation becomes more widespread in everyday life, people will be thinking more consciously about its promise of greater convenience versus the loss of human interaction.
2018
2018 trends
Mindshare
Citizen AI - Raising AI to Benefit Business and Society
As artificial intelligence grows in its capabilities—and its impact on people’s lives—businesses must move to “raise” their AIs to act as responsible, productive members of society.
2018
Accenture Technology vision 2018
Accenture
Mobility
As a share of the world’s population, migration today is less prevalent than it has been in the past, such as during the age of mass migration in the 19th century. Urbanisation is also occurring rapidly within our populations.28 In 1950, only three of every ten people lived in cities. In 2008, the number of people in cities was greater than that in rural areas for the first time.
2013
Now for the long term - The Report of the Oxford Martin Commission for Future Generations
Oxford Martin School