forecasting and business trend research
Future Enterprise IT
Tracking the impact of emerging information technologies on the future enterprise.
- Future Enterprise- Biometric Marketing
A biometric is a unique physical or behavioural attribute that can be used to identify an individual uniquely. By applying biometric technology to online marketing, the user can be uniquely identified and associated with an individual consumer profile. Increasing interest in biometrics has led to rapid improvements in technologies with better performance, faster transaction speeds and lower costs. - Future Enterprise- Enterprise Transformation
The fundamental acceleration and realignment in global knowledge growth is driving enterprises to improve the productivity of process outcomes in order to survive in this new world order. However current business process improvement and re-engineering will not be sufficient to turn the tide. In all industries there is now an understanding that only radical change and innovation beyond traditional workflow and process management can effect the desired remediation. - Future Enterprise- Autonomic Computing Systems
To cope with the ever-increasing complexity of managing distributed heterogeneous computing systems, there is a strong imperative for such systems to manage their own operations in relation to higher-level planning objectives. Such self-management is a hallmark of autonomic computing systems. - Future Enterprise- Web Services 2.0
Globalisation, increasing automation and growth of e-business, are all driving the growth of the service economy. In turn the service economy is driving the growth of web-based services across the internet. But already a new player in the Web Services space is emerging- Web Services 2.0 - Future Enterprise- Smart Business Networks
Recent research in network analysis triggered by the boom in social networks on the internet, has made a significant contribution to a more profound understanding of networked behaviour in business ecosystems. By linking together in strategic and operational networks, enterprises are able to gain synergy and achieve superior operational performance. - Future Enterprise- Enterprise Risk Management
A string of corporate disasters such as Enron, Worldcom, lehman Brothers, Ford and GM has transformed the status of risk management to a central role. Enterprise Risk management- ERM, aims to achieve systematic reduction in all risk outcomes facing enterprises today, but with the goal of creating a balance between realizing market opportunities and minimizing adverse impacts - Future Enterprise- Adaptive Business Intelligence
Today most business managers realize that a gap still exists between having the right information and making the right decision. Good decision-making also involves constantly improving future recommendations- adapting to changes in the marketplace and improving the quality of decision outcomes over time. - Future Enterprise- Prediction Markets
Prediction markets are an increasingly important forecasting tool based on evolutionary information aggregation and selection and regularly outperform other forecasting techniques. - Future Enterprise- The Intelligent Enterprise
The enterprise of the future will increasingly depend on a wide range of rigorous artificial intelligence systems, algorithms and techniques to facilitate its operation at all levels of management. - Future Enterprise- The Adaptable Enterprise
The future adaptive enterprise must develop the flexibility to focus and deploy its cooperative intelligence in realtime at all levels in response to opportunities and competitive pressures. Information architectures should therefore be decision rather than process based in order to respond with optimal speed and creativity. - Future Enterprise- Social Computing 2.0
In a more recent trend, social computing 2.0 applications now frequently focus on web-supported online communities such as social networks, mobile media, wikis, blogs and virtual worlds, providing feedback on interactive social comment, entertainment, scientific and medical advances as well as business services.