The Next Big Thing

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A few weeks ago I participated in a technical trend conversation aimed mainly at the oil and gas organizations. Last weekend I did something similar but this time talking with some individuals from various HR organizations - at an HR Roundtable Summit that SMU held in San Antonio.

Their rankings came out it four tiers:

The highest level of interest was:

• Predictive Analytics


• Web 3.0/Semantic web

The next highest grouping was:

• Digitized voice & and transfer to system


• IT Virtualization


• Social Media Monitors


• Content Analytics


• Sustainability/optimization


• Event Driven Architectures

The lowest grouping receiving votes were:

• Process Modeling


• Context-aware computing


• Offline Web applications


• Cloud computing


• Sensor Networks and Real-world Integration


• Simulation/Modeling


• Dynamic business applications


• Web 2.0


• Extended Enterprise/federation

And those with no votes:

• 3D Visualization


• Interoperability standards


• Reference Data Models


• Enterprise Master Data Management


• Complex Event Processing


• Intelligent software assistant

These are quite different ratings than the previous set so it shows how important it is to know your organizations definition of innovation.