Trends Identified
Social Business
Reimagining business with a social mindset Even today, business leaders may dismiss the potential of social business, either relegating it to the realm of Internet marketing or ignoring the buzz as a passing fad. But that’s changing as boomers evolve into digital natives, millennials permeate the workforce and social media becomes a part of daily life. The doors are now open for social business.
2012
Tech Trends 2012-Elevate IT for digital business
Deloitte
Social Change
According to the World Bank Group, two thirds of all jobs could be susceptible to automation in developing countries in the coming decade. The role and responsibilities of people in this new operating landscape will increasingly shift to knowledge work, process control and decision making. As such, the ability to learn, unlearn, relearn and co-learn reinforced through reskilling and upskilling would be increasingly important as emerging technologies lead the way to greater automation. The democratisation of knowledge also gives rise to a society where ideas and knowledge can be easily accessed by many and no longer limited to an elite group. The digital revolution enables knowledge to be freely acquired, shared and developed thereby empowering people to make informed decisions.
2017
Science & Technology Foresight Malaysia
Malaysia, Academy of Sciences Malaysia
Social commerce: take 2
It has often been assumed that social commerce will transform the way we shop online. As we enter 2018, however, it’s a trend that has gained traction in parts of Asia but is yet to take hold in the West, where online shopping is still rmly rooted in traditional online retailers.
2018
Trends 18
GlobalWebIndex
Social Computing
Social computing – not just media, collaboration or social networking – it’s a new fundamental for enterprise IT The rise of social computing in the enterprise is in some ways a return to the business landscape of Frank Capra’s and Norman Rockwell’s time – where business was local, corporations lived within a single office, and market value could be pegged by the sentiments on Main Street or at the water cooler. But as global business continues to accelerate, determining “who knows what” is becoming a challenge.
2011
Tech Trends 2011 The natural convergence of business and IT
Deloitte
Social credit algorithms
These algorithms use facial recognition and other advanced biometrics to identify a person and retrieve data about that person from social media and other digital profiles for the purpose of approval or denial of access to consumer products or social services. In our increasingly networked world, the combination of biometrics and blended social data streams can turn a brief observation into a judgment of whether a person is a good or bad risk or worthy of public social sanction. Some countries are reportedly already using social credit algorithms to assess loyalty to the state.
2018
IEEE Computer Society Predicts the Future of Tech: Top 10 Technology Trends for 2019
IEEE Computer Society
Social innovation
In addition to technological, product, process, organizational and marketing innovations, social innovation answers to pressing social demands that require the combination of actions coming from the market, the public sector and the civil society. Social innovation delivers results that are positive for economic and social cohesion (cf. new social problems, vulnerable groups, gender discriminations), create new social relationships and foster collaborative economy. Social innovation addresses societal and environmental challenges while improving collective wellbeing. Social innovations are particularly relevant in times of crises and budgetary constraints.
2015
Preparing the Commission for future opportunities - Foresight network fiches 2030
European Strategy and Policy Analysis System (ESPAS)
Social instability
29% of responding CEOs answered that they were 'extremely concerned'
2018
Global CEO survey
PWC
Social media
Social networking and collaboration platforms
2016
Disruptive technologies barometer
KPMG
Social Media
The rise of social media as a dominant channel/platform for communication has led to new forms of rapid connectivity and interaction across the global landscape (e.g., Arab Spring, the 2016 US presidential election, Facebook groups for Syrian refugees).
2017
Beyond the Noise- The Megatrends of Tomorrow’s World
Deloitte
Social Platforms Will Emerge as a New Source of Business Intelligence
The rapid growth of social media has been eye-popping—especially so in the last few years. Facebook, founded in 2004, now has more than half a billion users and is spending heavily to accommodate more. Twitter’s service generates billions of tweets per month. Social networks are not just a product of and for the young consumer: Many of the world’s Internet users aged 50 and over are active users of social media. And increasingly, businesses and government organizations are using social media to connect their constituents in an effort to improve collaboration. This is just the tip of the iceberg. The evolution of social media will continue to disrupt the way companies do business, posing new challenges to IT as it attempts to harness social media in the enterprise. The key driver of this change? The transformation of social networks into social platforms, each with its own ecosystem to fuel increasingly deeper levels of interaction. Social platforms have three major dimensions: functionality, or the basic capabilities these platforms offer; community, or the groups of people who belong to them; and user identity, the unique name and associated information that characterizes an individual.
2011
Accenture Technology Vision 2011
Accenture