My thoughts, concerns and questions from Gartner’s 2016 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies Identifies Three Key Trends that Organizations Must Track to Gain Competitive Advantage (Gartner, 2016)
Three technology trends:
Transparently immersive experiences:
- As technology becomes more adaptive in all aspects of life, the relationship between humans and technology will be more “human-centric”.
Perceptual smart machine age:
- Smart technologies will play a large role for companies managing their data in an intuitive way. They will be able to solve problems and expand networks easily while adapting to new environments without issues. Do you think this means the skill sets required for common jobs will change?
Platform Revolution:
- Shift from technical infrastructure to ecosystem create the link from humans to technology.
- Strategies and business models will shift with extensive data and the key will be to generate value from the data.
Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies:
- Provides insight on emerging trends that will have an impact on decisions and strategies made by organizational leaders.
- The chart evaluates the following factors against expectations:
- Innovation Trigger
- Peak of Inflated Expectations
- Trough of Disillusionment
- Slope of Enlightenment
- Plateau of Productivity
This article focused heavily on the involvement of CIO’s and other business leaders to make decisions based on the trends they have identified. In the workplace, it seems that there is such a variety of organizational leaders and ones that may not be CIO’s per say, however they run companies and ultimately have the final say. With the speed of digital enhancements and changes happening faster than ever, I wonder how that will shift the traits required for CEO’s, Chairmen of Boards, and other C-level executives who might still be hesitant to adapt to the technology side of things.
Gartner. (2016, August 16). Gartner’s 2016 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies Identifies Three Key Trends that Organizations Must Track to Gain Competitive Advantage. [Press Release].