Trends Identified
CIO Operational Excellence
Improving the “business of IT” by planning for the end-game from day one The global financial crisis had a direct impact on a number of IT trends in 2009. With most IT budgets either slashed or stagnant, and an increased focus on cost reduction opportunities, IT operational excellence became top of mind for many organizations. Revisiting the basics in terms of process effectiveness and overall efficiency of the “business of IT,” was one approach many organizations used to drive quick hits across the cost-cutting spectrum.
2010
Depth perception A dozen technology trends shaping business and IT in 2010
Deloitte
CIO as venture capitalist - Trading on IT’s assets, talent, risk, and results
CIOs who want to help drive business growth and innovation will likely need to develop a new mindset and new capabilities. Like venture capitalists, CIOs should actively manage their IT portfolio in a way that drives enterprise value and evaluate portfolio performance in terms that business leaders understand— value, risk, and time horizon to reward. CIOs who can combine this with agility and align the desired talent can reshape how they run the business of IT.
2014
Tech trends 2014 - Inspiring Disruption
Deloitte
CIO as the Postdigital Catalyst
Technology-centric forces are driving business innovation. Who will lead the charge? Five macro forces – analytics, mobile, social, cloud, and cyber – are hard at work enabling and disrupting organizations of many shapes and sizes. The Postdigital EnterpriseTM provokes and harvests these disruptions by changing operating models, capabilities, and perhaps even business models. Industrialization wasn’t complete when we entered the post-industrial era; it had simply become the new basis for competition. The same holds true for these digital forces in the Postdigital era.
2013
Tech Trends 2013 Elements of postdigital
Deloitte
CIO as chief integration officer - A new charter for IT
As technology transforms existing business models and gives rise to new ones, the role of the CIO is evolving rapidly, with integration at the core of its mission. Increasingly, CIOs need to harness emerging disruptive technologies for the business while balancing future needs with today’s operational realities. They should view their responsibilities through an enterprise-wide lens to help ensure critical domains such as digital, analytics, and cloud aren’t spurring redundant, conflicting, or compromised investments within departmental or functional silos. In this shifting landscape of opportunities and challenges, CIOs can be not only the connective tissue but the driving force for intersecting, IT-heavy initiatives—even as the C-suite expands to include roles such as chief digital officer, chief data officer, and chief innovation officer. And what happens if CIOs don’t step up? They could find themselves relegated to a “care and feeding” role while others chart a strategic course toward a future built around increasingly commoditized technologies.
2015
Tech trends 2015 - The fusion of business and IT
Deloitte
Chinese Cards and Wallets Achieve Scale in Western Markets
Spend by Chinese tourists is at an all time high. Mobile payments are immensely popular within China. As availability and adoption accelerates amongst tourists, usage is likely to scale up amongst Chinese immigrant communities. This in turn can create a critical mass of resident users in selected markets which could potentially spread to wider demographics.
2018
Top Tech trends 2018
Juniper Research
China’s Swing Role
Whether China gets stuck in the middle-income trap is more than a domestic question. An angry China would be a dangerous regional and global spoiler. Without a growing China, global economic growth would dip.
2016
Global risks 2035- the search for a new normal
Atlantic Council
China's rise to as a technological superpower
China’s capacity and ambitions for research and development (R&D) have grown considerably over recent years. China’s assets range from national science programmes and sustained R&D investments, to its large cohorts of scientists and huge domestic market. These have helped China catch up technologically, and even take the lead in some areas. Even though it still lags traditional R&D powerhouses in some areas, the technological centre of gravity could shift east in time, with China becoming more dominant in global R&D.
2017
Foresigth
Singapore, The Centre for Strategic Futures
China and the global shift to the East
The re-election of President Xi Jinping has given China stability in a turbulent world, and has reinforced the state’s mandate to address climate change at a time when other world leaders have faltered over sustainability
2018
8 sustainability trends that will define 2018
Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership
Chief ethics officer will be the hot new C-suite title.
As technology advances ever faster and the law struggles to keep up, how personal data is handled or how AI is built often comes down solely to corporate decisions. How do they make the right ones? Companies are waking up to that responsibility and making ethics a core function, which is growing out of legal like diversity grew out of HR. “What I think we're seeing now is a recognition that it's important to go beyond looking at the rules,” says Katie Lawler, chief ethics officer at U.S. Bank since 2017. “Having a strong set of core values, having a environment in which employees know that their voices will be heard when they have a concern, really goes beyond the ‘Can we?’ of compliance to the ‘Should we?’ of ethics.”
2018
50 Big Ideas for 2019: What to watch in the year ahead
LinkedIn
Chemical materials with autonomous life-cycle control
(Definition) A technology enabling autonomous life-cycle protection, report, and decomposition control against external environments. (Use) Available to apply to IoT devices that detect and transfer environmental changes in daily life with no power or in a low-power state and contribute to improve the confidence on the safety of structures such as roads, bridges, and buildings by detecting and reporting abnormal symptoms for disaster protection and restoring the given properties to a certain extent autonomously.
2019
KISTEP 10 Emerging Technologies 2019
South Korea, Korea Institute of S&T Evaluation and Planning (KISTEP)