{"id":214,"date":"2018-01-10T12:20:52","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T20:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0025\/?p=214"},"modified":"2018-01-16T12:21:43","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T20:21:43","slug":"trends-to-gain-competitive-advantage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0025\/trends-to-gain-competitive-advantage\/","title":{"rendered":"LRNT 524 &#8211; Trends to Gain Competitive Advantage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;font-size: 12pt\"><em>My thoughts, concerns and questions\u00a0from <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gartner.com\/newsroom\/id\/3412017\"><em>Gartner\u2019s 2016 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies Identifies Three Key Trends that Organizations Must Track to Gain Competitive Advantag<\/em><\/a><em>e<\/em><em> (Gartner, 2016) <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;font-size: 14pt\">Three technology trends:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;font-size: 12pt\">Transparently immersive experiences:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;font-size: 12pt\">As technology becomes more adaptive in all aspects of life, the relationship between humans and technology will be more \u201chuman-centric\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;font-size: 12pt\">Perceptual smart machine age:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;font-size: 12pt\">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?\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;font-size: 12pt\">Platform Revolution:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;font-size: 12pt\">Shift from technical infrastructure to ecosystem create the link from humans to technology.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;font-size: 12pt\">Strategies and business models will shift with extensive data and the key will be to generate value from the data.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;font-size: 12pt\">Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;font-size: 12pt\">Provides insight on emerging trends that will have an impact on decisions and strategies made by organizational leaders.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;font-size: 12pt\">The chart evaluates the following factors against expectations:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;font-size: 12pt\">Innovation Trigger<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;font-size: 12pt\">Peak of Inflated Expectations<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;font-size: 12pt\">Trough of Disillusionment<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;font-size: 12pt\">Slope of Enlightenment<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;font-size: 12pt\">Plateau of Productivity<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;font-size: 12pt\">This article focused heavily on the involvement of CIO\u2019s 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\u2019s 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\u2019s, Chairmen of Boards, and other C-level executives who might still be hesitant to adapt to the technology side of things.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;font-size: 12pt\"><em>Gartner. (2016, August 16).\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gartner.com\/newsroom\/id\/3412017\"><strong><em>Gartner\u2019s 2016 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies Identifies Three Key Trends that Organizations Must Track to Gain Competitive Advantag<\/em><\/strong><\/a><em>e. [Press Release].\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My thoughts, concerns and questions\u00a0from Gartner\u2019s 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 \u201chuman-centric\u201d.\u00a0 Perceptual smart machine &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0025\/trends-to-gain-competitive-advantage\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">LRNT 524 &#8211; Trends to Gain Competitive Advantage<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions\/218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}