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Gartner Inc. has identified key industry trends that will dominate IT organisations and users in 2013 and beyond.
According to Gartner, in the future, the Nexus of Forces will drive massive transformation in different industries. Social networking, mobile communications, the cloud and information are leading enterprises worldwide to make fundamental changes in business processes.
Gartner?s annual research paper titled, ?Top Industry Predicts 2013: The Nexus of Forces will drive massive transformation in many industries?, features 14 strategic planning assumptions that chief information officers, senior business executives and IT leaders should factor into their enterprise planning and strategy-setting initiatives.
Kimberly Harris-Ferrante, vice president and analyst, Gartner, says, ?Most industries will face massive changes from 2013 through 2015. These changes will force fundamental shifts in business processes that will, in turn, further reshape those industries. The social commons, mobile communications, cloud computing and information will be especially important factors in driving even greater industry transformation, challenging existing business models and processes and opening up greater competitive and other threats.?
The top predictions by Gartner for IT companies include:
By 2016, three automakers will have announced concrete plans for upcoming automobile launches that will offer autonomous vehicle technology.
?By 2015, non-traditional money creation and exchange will enable 125 million more people to participate in the mainstream global economy.
?By 2016, national governments will require institutions to surrender student records for a redesigned, cost-cutting curriculum based on big data analysis.
?By 2015, to avoid becoming simply transaction factories, successful payer organisations will turn to information integration as their competitive differentiator.
?By 2016, half of the utility customers in the US will have access to standardised energy usage data, but only 20 per cent will use it.
?By 2014, less than 2 per cent of consumers globally will adopt near field communication-based mobile payments.
?More than 50 per cent of government shared-service organisations that provide cloud services by 2015 will discontinue or downscale them by 2017.
?Through 2014, enterprise software spend will increase by 25 per cent as a consequence of the proliferation of smart operational technology.
Harris-Ferrante, explains, ?Many of the Nexus of Forces direct and indirect impacts, such as the need to respond to the pervasiveness of social networking and the mobile-device-driven consumerisation of IT, are being felt across virtually all industries. Others, including intensifying regulatory requirements, are resulting in part from increasing reliance on cloud computing and other ‘open’ IT delivery models, which are industry-specific. But all these forces, and the changes in business processes they demand, present enterprise IT and business decision-makers with an extraordinarily difficult set of choices in the years to come.?
