Technology Forecast

Anticipating and leveraging rapid changes in the technological space

This quarterly journal from PwC Global focuses on emerging trends in technology and the strategic options that new technologies can create for the enterprise. Focusing on one main theme per issue, The Technology Forecast offers an analysis of technology trends that are changing the way companies do business.

Internet of Things: Evolving transactions into relationships This issue of the Technology Forecast examines the impact of Internet of Things trends on businesses and the IT organization. It analyzes how businesses now have the ability to continue the relationship with customers after the sales transaction by helping them achieve the goals for which they buy the products.
Technology Forecast – A Quarterly Journal What is it about games that people enjoy so much? Whether it's the engagement, the motivation, or the challenge, businesses have begun to take notice.
The business value of APIs This issue of the Technology Forecast examines how enterprises can engage with the challenges and opportunities stemming from SMAC (social computing, mobile computing, analytics and cloud computing) trends by scaling integrations and participating in expanding digital ecosystems.
Reshaping the workforce with the new analytics This edition of Technology Forecast explores the impact of the new analytics and how a culture of inquiry enterprises can foster with the help of emerging data analysis tools and services.
Building sustainable companies This edition of Technology Forecast explores how sustainability measures—increasingly a key measure of value in the marketplace—can and should be embedded in an enterprise’s systems, processes and technology.
Transforming collaboration with social tools This issue of Technology Forecast explores how to confront communications overload and boost collaboration potential by making best use of the new powerful social tools. Business is inherently social, which is why collaboration and communications that scale are so fundamental.
Decoding Innovation's DNA - Issue 2, 2011 In this issue of the Technology Forecast, we’re all about innovation. What is it? Where does it come from? Is innovation a result of inscrutable genius, or can it be treated as an end-to-end process subject to performance optimization? The issue includes articles called “Can innovation be disciplined without killing it?”, “Powering the innovation life cycle”, and “The strategic CIO’s new role in innovation”. It also includes interviews with business leaders about their thoughts on innovation.
Unleashing enterprise mobility - Issue 1, 2011 In this issue of the Technology Forecast, we explore how enterprises can turn what has been a consumer trend in smart handhelds to their advantage. We outline the ways that security for smart handhelds is improving. Finally, we establish that CIOs need to acknowledge that employees now have their own IT capabilities, either by conveying an understanding of the device choice options to the rest of the C-suite, establishing new governance approaches, or formulating new business process models.
Driving growth with cloud computing - Issue 4, 2010 In this issue of the Technology Forecast, we are asking our readers to look beyond all the excitement that cloud computing is creating as a change agent for cheaper and better IT. But how will cloud computing impact the enterprise more broadly? What does cloud computing mean for business strategy and the broader C-suite agenda? Our research uncovers that cloud computing enables a new kind of business growth that is distinct from organic and inorganic growth.
Making sense of Big Data - Issue 3, 2010 In this issue of the Technology Forecast, we review the techniques behind low-cost distributed computing that have led companies to explore more of their data in new ways. The first article begins with a consideration of exploratory analytics—methods that are separate from traditional business intelligence (BI). These techniques make it feasible to look for more haystacks, rather than just the needle in one haystack.
Managing the end-to-end process - Issue 2, 2010 This issue of the Technology Forecast examines how smart digital assets and their metadata offer the opportunity to extend process management to human-driven activities without constraining variability. This first article introduces the idea of meta-process management as an approach to continuous improvement of an end-to-end process. The second article explores technologies that exist to support this approach; the last article explores the CIO’s role in this.
Unlocking hidden transformation value - Issue 1, 2010 In this issue of the Technology Forecast, we look at modeling and simulation from an architectural and transformational standpoint. We also explore how CIOs can have more of an impact on transformation efforts by using complex adaptive system models.
Evergreening IT with Cloud Computing - Summer 2009 Organizations need a way to invest in information technology to avoid an environment dominated by a collection of legacy solutions that deliver functionality in a silo, and weren’t designed to be agile. In this issue, we explore the impact of cloud computing trends on IT infrastructure and its role in creating a foundation for business agility.
Semantic Web in the Enterprise - Spring 2009 Many enterprises continue to spend heavily on business intelligence (BI), even in a recession—but only a few are getting to the root of the BI problem. In this issue, we examine the emerging technologies and methods being used to directly engage with the meaning and context of data that is critical to running the business—its semantics.
Business Management Application - Winter 2009 In a rapidly changing world, management needs a new enterprise model that combines efficient operations with strategic flexibility. This issue explores the future of enterprise applications and their role in creating a foundation for agility in an era of accelerating change.
Enterprise Architecture for Agility - Fall 2008 Do more with less. Be more innovative. Manage continuous change. Anticipate market shifts. Do these issues sound familiar? An evolving methodology can help anticipate market changes and assess their meaning for the enterprise as a whole. This emerging approach is described in detail in this issue.
A quarterly journal - Summer 2008 We wish we could offer you a comforting forecast that the world was about to slow down, but unfortunately, the opposite appears to be the case. Our research for this issue uncovered three emerging themes in technology, driven by one overpowering business issue — the accelerating pace of change.