Global professional services firm Deloitte today held their annual Technology Trends — Tech Trends 2012 — report presentation in Johannesburg, South Africa.
The report aims to look at relevant actionable technology trends, and those with measurable targets for businesses.
Tech Trends 2012 was written and presented by Mark White who is the Chief Technology Officer of Deloitte Consulting LLP’s Technology practice, the Global Technology Lead for Eminence and Innovation, and a senior IT principal on the Department of Homeland Security account team in the USA.
The theme for this year’s report was “Elevate IT for digital business.”
The report looked at five technology trends that have an impact on business and that CIOs must consider, namely – analytics, mobility, social, cloud and cyber security.
To elaborate further on these trends, Mark expanded on them and grouped them into two groups of five – Disruptive Technologies – Disruptors (Social Business, Gamification, Enterprise Mobility, User Empowerment, Hyper-Hybrid Cloud) and Enabling Technologies (Big Data, Geospatial visualisation, Digital Identities, Measured Innovation, Outside-in architecture).
Disruptors are technologies that create a positive sustainable change to the business and IT capabilities, explained Mark, while Enablers are technologies that CIOs have already invested in but need to be looked at again due to new technological developments and trends.
The report goes further to provide CIOs with guidelines on how to act on each trend so it can have a positive impact on their business.
Various CIOs, CTOs and IT Managerst from Public and Private sector organisations attended the event.
