Trends Identified
Urbanization
Cities are growing more quickly than suburban and rural areas, and are simultaneously witnessing an increasing concentration of wealth. As a result, the quality of life continues to improve in urban centers relative to suburban communities, and demand for services is increasing.
2017
Beyond the Noise- The Megatrends of Tomorrow’s World
Deloitte
Urbanization
Almost two-thirds of the world’s population will reside in cities by 2030.2 Urbanization is creating significant opportunities for social and economic development and more sustainable living, but is also exerting pressure on infrastructure and resources, particularly energy.
2014
Future State 2030: The global megatrends shaping governments
KPMG
Urbanization and growth of cities
Urbanization and growth of cities, population concentration, demands for infrastructure and basic services, quality of life, and competitiveness of cities.
2016
Why and how latin america should think about the future
theDialogue
US dominance is over. We have a handful of global powers
Nation states will have staged a comeback, writes Robert Muggah, Research Director at the Igarapé Institute. Instead of a single force, a handful of countries – the U.S., Russia, China, Germany, India and Japan chief among them – show semi-imperial tendencies. However, at the same time, the role of the state is threatened by trends including the rise of cities and the spread of online identities,
2016
Eight predictions for 2030
World Economic Forum (WEF)
US military power in 2030
Changes in the technological, political, economic and even social bases of the US could change the global order. What consequences are there for Europe?
2016
Global Trendometer - essays on medium- and long-term global trends
European Strategy and Policy Analysis System (ESPAS)
Use of power politics.
The importance of NATO has increased for collective defence of the Euro-Atlantic region as it is the main framework that maintains a robust and an appropriate mix of nuclear and conventional capabilities.
2017
Strategic foresight analysis
NATO
Useful next-generation component pre-concentration systems
New generation useful component pre-concentration systems are aimed at enriching minerals by various methods (gravitational, magnetic, electrical, flotation, bacterial, chemical, impulse, radiation and radiothermal, concentrated and insitu leaching methods, etc.). In particular, one of the technological objectives is to enrich material contained in manmade dumps and tailings up to an industrial concentration of a useful component. The further development of such technologies will create conditions to increase industrial supplies of mineral raw materials by bringing into service deposits with low metal content ores. Wider use of solid pockets of minerals will bring about an overall reduction in the value of extracted ore. The effectiveness of work by metallurgical and chemical companies which use enriched raw materials will increase together with the level of extraction of useful components of certain types of minerals; the amount of waste and raw materials loss will decrease.
2016
Russia 2030: science and technology foresight
Russia, Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation
User Empowerment
The end-user renaissance forces a disruptive shift in IT In their personal lives, business users are enjoying a technology renaissance that continues to deliver simple, elegant and often innovative technology products. Then they come to work expecting the same experience. To meet those expectations, IT leaders should understand and deliver capabilities that engage each key persona of their users, enabling a given role in the way they actually perform their job. But it shouldn’t stop there. The real trick is envisioning how emerging technologies and new form factors can improve how work actually gets done. Enterprise users are clamoring for mobile and social enablement – collaboration, information and insight wherever, whenever. They’re looking to leave behind the legacy “point, click, type” world for one of “touch, swipe, talk and gesture,” and they won’t hesitate to go around central IT to get the capabilities they need. The CIO must envision the digital future and deliver the empowered present.
2012
Tech Trends 2012-Elevate IT for digital business
Deloitte
User Engagement
Empowering business by focusing from the “user down,” not the “system up” Software engineering has typically emphasized technical architectural “-ilities” – reliability, scalability, security, maintainability and flexibility. At the same time, low expectations were set for the other “-ilities” – namely, “usability” or employee interactions with enterprise technologies. While people grumbled about the systems they relied on for daily tasks, there were few examples of any better systems, and little impetus for corporate solution developers to implement change.
2011
Tech Trends 2011 The natural convergence of business and IT
Deloitte
User Engagement
Right information, right user, right time, right context, right outcomes For years, organizations grudgingly accepted the “limitations” of IT as immutable truths: Users spend far too much time logging in and out of well-intentioned applications designed around the constraints of information flows instead of real work flows. These individual applications didn’t talk to one another, requiring manual bridges between systems, content, and context – leaving users to their own devices for much of the insight needed to run the business. Dots remained unconnected, critical proprietary information went unmanaged and unshared, and decisions – from shop fl oor tasks to board-room endeavors – were poorly supported by the enabling IT.
2010
Depth perception A dozen technology trends shaping business and IT in 2010
Deloitte