By Chris Carroll
Deloitte recently published its fifth annual Technology Trends report, which highlights the 10 disruptive trends Deloitte views as offering CIOs the opportunity to shape tomorrow and transform business as usual. Tech Trends 2014—Inspiring Disruption is a free online report written under the theme “Inspiring Disruption” and it details 10 trends that show great potential for new technologies that can change how work is done, how companies can grow, and how markets will evolve.
The list of 10 was narrowed down from an original list of 115 issues, and the following are the ten trends that Deloitte feels are most transforming business, government, and society:
- CIO as venture capitalist
- Cognitive analytics
- Industrialized crowdsourcing
- Digital engagement
- Wearables
- Technical debt reversal
- Social activation
- Cloud orchestration
- In-memory revolution
- Real-time DevOps
Each trend is explored with several examples and use cases, and the trends were distilled based on feedback from clients, industry executives, academics, research, and crowd sourced ideas and examples from Deloitte consultants. I encourage you to click through to read the report, the trends are clearly defined. The report is well reasoned and the examples are particularly informative. You may not agree with all the items in the list, but it will force you to consider the macro trends affecting CIOs.
As Bill Briggs, CTO of Deloitte Consulting told Forbes, “The idea is to see if there’s a way to harness these issues to inspire disruption, so you’re not on the wrong end of it. It’s to make sure you’re not surprised and caught unawares, though your strategy might simply be to say, ‘let’s wait and see.’”
What do you think of this list, are these the ten issues that will be most disrupting CIOs this year? Are there other issues that should have been included?
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Chris Carroll is a freelance technology writer with over 30 years editorial experience. See more information about his background, including samples of his work and references, at here.