Deloitte, the professional services network, will Wednesday, September 30, unveil its 2015 Tech Trends report the firm says is inspired by a fundamental transformation in the way C-suite leaders and CIOs collaborate to leverage disruptive change, chart business strategy, and pursue potentially transformative opportunities.
The event will largely reveal to company executives which major technology trends predictions will impact their business over the next 12-18 months.
The theme for this year’s report is the fusion of business and IT. According to Deloitte, “the list of trends we spotlight has been developed using an ongoing process of primary and secondary research that involves feedback from client executives on current and future priorities, perspectives from industry and academic luminaries, research by technology alliances, industry analysts, competitor positioning and crowd-sourced ideas and examples from our global network of practitioners.”
The event, which is the second in the series and scheduled to hold at Four Points By Sheraton by 9am, will have Kamal Ramsingh, tech leader, Deloitte Consulting Africa, as guest speaker.
Deloitte’s Technology Trends report is an annual in-depth examination of current technology trends, ranging from the way some organisations are using application programming interfaces to extend services and create new revenue streams, to the dramatic impact connectivity and analytics are having on digital marketing.
It is also about the evolving role of the CIO to changing IT skill sets and delivery models, which help make sense of the dynamics behind the changes driven by the confluence of business and technology.
Over the next 18–24 months, each of these trends, according to the report, could potentially disrupt the way businesses engage their customers, how work gets done, and how markets and industries evolve. In this same time, the CIOs and other executives will have opportunities to learn more about these trends and the technologies that could potentially disrupt their IT environments and, more broadly, their company’s strategies and established business models.
“As in last year’s report, we have also included a section dedicated to six “exponential” technologies: innovative disciplines evolving faster than the pace of Moore’s Law whose eventual impact may be profound,” according to Deloitte in the introduction to the 2015 report.
