9 Reasons Governments Favor Open Source Software. Keeping IT Budgets under Control Taking Advantage of Competitive Bidding Benefiting from the Perennially Taking Advantage of Mutualization Ensuring Security and Privacy Ensuring Robustness and Reliability Enhancing Transparency Enabling Easier Public Data Transfers Innovating to Serve Citizens Better
6 small steps to digital transformation | InfoWorld.
The surprising truth about which countries lead in digital | McKinsey & Company. In developing a distinctive digital offering, companies at almost any stage of their digital journey will find it helpful to think about four key steps: 1. Discover 2. Design 3. Deliver 4. “De-risk”
RECONSIDER — Signal v. Noise. … The distortion is exacerbated by the fact that people building profitable companies outside the sphere of the VC dominion have little systemic need to tell their story. VCs, on the other hand, need the continuous PR campaign to meet their recruiting goals. They can’t just bag a single [...]
Beyond the Hype Cycle: Quantifying Media Attention to Predict Technology Trends - CB Insights CB Insights Trends provides an objective, real-time, and data-driven perspective on the technologies and trends that business strategists, chief innovation officers, R&D leaders, product marketers, emerging technology teams, investors, and governments should consider in developing their strategies and responses to emerging [...]
How to Tell If a Company Is Good at Innovating or Just Good at PR Harvard Business Review rigorous innovators direct innovation strategically, with innovation efforts integrated into strategic planning and resource allocation systems. They pursue innovation rigorously, with a disciplined process and supporting tools to help spot, shape, and seize opportunities to innovate. They resource innovation intensively, dedicating top talent to [...]
The bottom line is that 45 percent of work activities could be automated using already demonstrated technology. Four fundamentals of workplace automation | McKinsey & Company. Our research is ongoing, and in 2016, we will release a detailed report. What follows here are four interim findings elaborating on the core insight that the road ahead [...]
trendwatching.com | 5 Trends for 2016. Status tests (status seekers mega-trend) consumers will embrace a new twist on a traditional form of cachet: exclusivity. That means STATUS TESTS that force them to actively prove their worth to the brands they want to buy from. Contextual omnipresence (helpfull mega-trend) smart brands will focus on answering a [...]
10 tendencias tecnológicas para 2016 1. Red de dispositivos 2. Experiencia ambiental de usuario 3. Materiales de impresión 3D 4. Información de Todo (Information of Everything) 5. Aprendizaje avanzado – Inteligencia artificial 6. Implementación de agentes autónomos y semiautónomos 7. Arquitectura de seguridad adaptativa 8. Arquitectura de sistemas avanzados 9. Arquitectura de aplicaciones y servicios [...]
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