Trends Identified
Measured Innovation
Innovation is shifting from “eureka” to an institutional discipline Innovation has long been accepted as an important driver of modern economic development. From economist Joseph Schumpeter’s work in the 1940’s1 to Clayton Christensen’s more recent research2 to conventional wisdom about technology’s meteoric impact on our daily lives. Corporations have taken note – recognising that effective innovation can create new market value, drive efficiencies, extend the lifecycle of products and services, and help launch new business models. Emerging technology is a continuing source of potential for innovation in business, and the CIO is the executive to deliver on that opportunity. Sounds great. But how?
2012
Tech Trends 2012-Elevate IT for digital business
Deloitte
Measuring and communicating success
In a complex and rapidly changing world, we were interested in understanding which areas CEOs want to better measure and which areas they want to better communicate to the multiple stakeholders who interact with their organisations. We found that the key metrics CEOs would like to improve are the ones traditionally seen as ‘harder’ drivers of business success like innovation and risks, while the areas they want to better communicate are emotional, ‘softer’ issues around values and purpose (see Figure 15). But customers are seeking information about both the ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ drivers of business success. Indeed, real-time dashboards created and managed by users themselves are becoming feasible, raising expectations for more fresh and relevant information and ways of viewing it. Ultimately the CEO must deal with matters of the head and the heart, the rational and the emotional. Our research suggests that there is much room to improve on both the assessment and communication of key business areas, including of course, core financial data.
2016
19th Annual global CEO survey
PWC
Mechanised Truth - Centralised routes to corporate truth-building
Truth, trust, believability – all under serious pressure in a consumer landscape developing a healthy disrespect for traditional arbiters of truth and authority, and where claim and counter-claim on any given issue mean that settled, mainstream truths are in short supply. Enter new, centralised routes to commercial truth- building that herald a future in which tangible, mechanised truths more robustly challenge emotionally-charged “alternative facts” and meet a significant need for corporate transparency.
2018
Trending 2018
Foresight Factory
Media an culture
The digital shift is having a profound and sometimes disruptive effect on creative ecosystems. New types of intermediaries between creators and consumers have emerged in the value chain. Co-creation of knowledge and culture through online social networks is a "game-changing" social innovation that empowers citizens and has the potential to address societal challenges. Users become ever more expert in creating their own user-generated content, as new cohorts of young people become adept at shaping and exploiting cultural and creative content through social media. Social media is poised to become the biggest component of mainstream media, in many cases at the expense of editorial media. Consumers’ appetite for new cultural formats and media – and their capacity to be active actors in this transformation - will depend on their ability to embrace the opportunities brought about by technology.
2015
Preparing the Commission for future opportunities - Foresight network fiches 2030
European Strategy and Policy Analysis System (ESPAS)
Medical tricorders
Example of Organizationsactive in the area: Basil Leaf Technologies (US), Dynamical Biomarkers Group (US/Taiwan), Scanadu (US).
2018
Table of disruptive technologies
Imperial College London
Medicine gets personal
Prepare for tailor-made treatment
2016
World in 2017
The Economist
Mega-scale desalination
Example of Organizationsactive in the area: Israel Desalination Enterprises Technologies (Israel), Acciona (Spain), Fluence Corporation (US).
2018
Table of disruptive technologies
Imperial College London
Mental Health Diagnostic and Treatment Technology
(Definition) By developing an algorithm that analyzes the correlation between various biometric signals received by a sensor module, data transmission and communication module and mental health symptoms, and predicts illness, this technology can forecast the aggravation of symptoms, and control, prevent and provide early treatment for the physiological and behavioral signal changes that reflect maladjustment and psychopathological processes from mental stress.(Application) Various mental health improvement and management services using IoT and smart devices; organization's mental health or social anger status monitoring system; and prediction, early diagnosis, and new treatment for mental illness based on brain-behavior.
2016
KISTEP 10 Emerging Technologies 2016
South Korea, Korea Institute of S&T Evaluation and Planning (KISTEP)
Mergers & acquisitions: Underlying optimism & Contrasting direction
The economic prognosis may be gloomy, but many CEOs are still keen to expand overseas. However, North American CEOs are more cautious than their peers in other regions, and Asian CEOs favour strategic alliances over M&As.
2008
11th Annual global CEO Survey
PWC