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Trends & Priorities Research Center
Research Center
Balance the promise of the emerging technologies of the future with managing the priorities of the present.
Tech Trends Research Center is your go-to resource for discovering the latest technology trends in the industry. Stay ahead of the curve and avoid disruption by leveraging insights from Info-Tech's 2024 Tech Trends Report. Our research will help you develop foresight and create a future-proof digital strategic plan, focusing on IT capabilities.
Exponential IT Readiness Diagnostic
Strategy & Leadership
Gauge your organization’s readiness to adapt in an era of rapid technological advancement, and determine IT’s readiness to lead that transformation.
The Exponential IT Readiness Diagnostic offered by Info-Tech Research Group is an essential tool for IT leaders to navigate the rapid advancements in technology led by Gen AI. By collecting feedback from key stakeholders, organizations can measure their readiness to extract value from exponential technologies. This assessment also allows for a.
Understand and Assess IT Skills Gaps for Industry 4.0 & 5.0
Blueprint: Industry Categories
Industry 4.0 is driven by automation, IoT, big data, and advanced robotics, while Industry 5.0 aims to humanize technology, promoting collaboration between humans and machines through artificial intelligence, ethical AI, and sustainable practices. Both of these approaches have ushered in a new...
Implement a strategic approach to skills development and acquisition to capitalize on the benefits of Industry 4.0 & 5.0.
This tool is designed to help manufacturing organizations assess their current workforce capabilities and identify potential risks when investing in emerging technologies. This tool is designed to help manufacturing organizations assess their current workforce capabilities and identify potential risks when investing in emerging technologies.
Organizational Skills Current State & Risk Assessment Tool
Tool: Industry Categories
This tool is designed to help manufacturing organizations assess their current workforce capabilities and identify potential risks when investing in emerging technologies.
Hyperchanging Tech Markets Demand Smarter Procurement and Agile Evaluation, Says Info-Tech Research Group
Press Release:
As technology markets rapidly commoditize, new research insights from Info-Tech Research Group highlight how smarter, more agile procurement methods enable quicker, more efficient purchasing decisions in a market defined by constant innovation and disruption. The recently published resource from...
...Tech Research Group highlight how smarter, more agile procurement methodsSix Stages of Technology Market Evolution Info-Tech’s blueprint, Stop Wasting Time Evaluating Commoditized Products and Services, identifies six distinct stages of technology market evolution, providing IT leaders with a clear framework for navigating the lifecycle of.
Evaluate and Select Alternative Network Solutions
Blueprint: Infrastructure & Operations
The process of selecting alternative network solutions involves considering factors such as scalability, performance, cost-effectiveness, and technology trends. By carefully assessing and selecting alternative network solutions, organizations can enhance their connectivity and optimize network...
A guide to alternative connectivity options.
Perform a high-level analysis of a technology's readiness for adoption based on your organization's needs. Use this tool to assess your organization's alternative network technology options. The tool measures readiness and fit for your organization, provides warnings for specific issues, and identifies uncertainties in your answers. With this.
Alternative Network Technology Assessment Tool
Tool: Infrastructure & Operations
Perform a high-level analysis of a technology's readiness for adoption based on your organization's needs.
Emerging Technology Radar
Tool: Infrastructure & Operations
Analyze the value and readiness of emerging technologies for your organization as part of your annual technology roadmapping process.
It is essential to analyze technology on at least an annual basis in order to identify how to best exploit upcoming advancements and trends.Use this tool to: Identify the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) that new technologies present.Visualize the value and readiness of each new technology, both today and in upcoming.
Select Tactical SaaS Vendors That Are Built to Last
Vendor Research: Vendor Management
Technology buyers and IT asset managers are frequently directed to procure and support new SaaS solutions from an increasing array of small to medium-sized vendors. These vendors often lack the cachet and solid track record of their mega-vendor peers' financial and technical performance. How can...
Whether these SaaS applications are hidden in the shadows or presented as a demand to the IT procurement team, they must be dealt with and de-r... In this note, I present a lightweight framework for evaluating the financial risk aspects of emerging SaaS vendors. Selecting a SaaS vendor as a customer is not so different from choosing the same.
Modernize the Network
Blueprint: Infrastructure & Operations
It is difficult to find a holistic, modern network solution that delivers the services demanded by rapidly changing business and IT needs. Engage stakeholders and conduct a comprehensive evaluation of emerging technologies and current networking concerns to find the best solution for your...
Merely replacing yesterday’s equipment will not prepare your network to meet the needs of tomorrow.
Use this tool to assess emerging technologies and decide whether or not to include them in your network modernization solution. This workbook provides a high-level analysis of a network technology's readiness for adoption based on your organization's needs.It then places the technology on a graph measuring both its readiness and fit to your.
Network Modernization Technology Assessment Tool
Tool: Infrastructure & Operations
Use this tool to assess emerging technologies and decide whether or not to include them in your network modernization solution.
Consumer Technology SWOT Analysis and Tech Monitor Tool
Tool: Infrastructure & Operations
Advancements in consumer technology can catch you off guard if you are not properly prepared. Evaluate emerging consumer technologies annually, and start managing consumer technologies proactively instead of reactively.
Adva... Evaluate emerging consumer technologies annually, and start managing consumer technologies proactively instead of reactively. Use this tool to: Identify the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) that new technologies present. Monitor the value and readiness of each new technology, both today and in upcoming years..
Dreamforce 2018 Saw ~170,000 Attendees…Welcome to the Platform Economy
Vendor Research: Vendor Management
Salesforce.com has emerged as a leader in the new “Platform Economy,” along with other “cloud kings” such as Microsoft, Service Now, and Palo Alto Networks. The Platform Economy represents an evolution from vertical XaaS models to an integrated product offering that is often cloud native and...
The MIT Sloan Management Review discusses lessons learned from its recent 2018 MIT Platform Strategy Summit from which it presents five key principles representing “platform value” in today’s marketplace. The article lists these principles as: Technology, scale, and smart risk management The power of specialization and advanced decision engines.
Measuring Technology Uptake
Note: Trends and Predictions
We appear to be leaving the time when profit dollars per company was the best way to measure the uptake of technology by users. In fact, the uptake of technology may itself be a new way of viewing progress by global IT vendors.
We appear to be leaving the time when profit dollars per company was the best way to measure the uptake of technology by users. In fact, the uptake of technology may itself be a new way of viewing pr... Published October 20, 2011 We appear to be leaving the time when profit dollars per company was the best way to measure the uptake of technology.
Special Letter: Business Model Diversification
Note: Trends and Predictions
Business models provide the best lens by which to view companies and countries. United with the patterns of the actions of their leaders, they allow uncanny prediction accuracy on what they will do next, and why.
Members may recall the project we did in cooperation with Deloitte a few years ago, applying the learnings of Bill Ribaudo’s team regarding how Wall Street rewarded four corporate business model types, with our work on the effect on country GDP of whether they were thieves or inventors, or something in between. The Business Model Diversification.
Info-Tech’s Tech Trends 2024: Insights for Product and Marketing
Note: Applications
This article offers an overview of Info-Tech’s top tech trends in 2024 related to product marketing, exploring how customers will approach investments in AI, spatial computing, security, digital sovereignty, and more in the upcoming year.
This article offers an overview of Info-Tech’s top tech trends in 2024 related to product marketing, exploring how customers will approach investments in AI, spatial computing, security, digital sovereignty, and more in the upcoming year. ...ng Product Risks in AI:Other Related Publication and DeliverablesTech Trends 2024 MethodologyThe Tech.
Emerging Technology Analyst
Job Description: CIO
Job description for the Emerging Technology Analyst role.
Job description for the Emerging Tec... The Emerging Technology Analyst (ETA) continuously researches new technology services and solutions that could drive business strategy, enhance business capabilities, create new business models, and drive business innovation. The ETA is responsible for: Understanding the business, the industry, markets, and.
Top Technology Trends to Watch in 2025: Insights from Info-Tech Research Group
Press Release:
As IT leaders gear up for all that 2025 may hold for the industry, Info-Tech Research Group highlights its most impactful 2024 trends reports and research to provide fresh guidance on navigating an exponentially evolving technological landscape. From generative AI and quantum computing to talent...
As IT leaders gear up for all that 2025 may hold for the industry, Info-Tech Research Group highlights its most impactful 2024 trends reports and research to provide fresh guidance on navigating an exponentially evolving technological landscape. January 13, 2025 – Info-Tech Research Group, a global leader in IT research and advisory, is signaling.
Special Letter: The Great (Country) Race: Company Business Models and Country GDP – Opportunity or Threat?
Note: Trends and Predictions
In this Special Letter, Bill and his team move further forward in explaining the benefits of paying close attention to the effect of these tech-related operators on valuation. Whether you are an investor, a CEO, or an inventor, you will want to read this week's issue in order to understand where...
In the present economy, however, we're seeing a new breed of business valuation, one that values companies differently. This paper reviews the Revenue Multiplier business model framework[1] and explores the implications of our research beyond business strategies and capital market valuation, discusses how gross domestic product (GDP) correlates to.
Optimize IT Project Intake, Approval, and Prioritization
Blueprint: Project & Portfolio Management
While many IT managers lack the capacity to realistically say “yes” to more project work, many also lack the authority to decline or defer new requests. It’s a catch-22 that results in organizations being good at approving projects but bad at starting them – and even worse at finishing them.
Decide which IT projects to approve and when to start them.
Develop a high-level solution for projects that:Are very different from previous projects.Are fairly complex or not business as usual.Require adoption of new technology or skill set.IT should advise and provide subject matter expertise on the technology requirements to those that ultimately approve the proposed projects so that they can take into.
Proposed Project Technology Assessment Tool
Tool: Project & Portfolio Management
Use this tool to conduct a high-level analysis of a technology's readiness for adoption based on your organization's needs.
Special Letter: Technology Is Changing How We View Industry, Value Companies, and Develop Strategy
Note: Trends and Predictions
In this week's issue, Deloitte's Bill Ribaudo expands upon a theme. Just as we have learned over time to view countries in terms of their business models, Bill has now made the case that companies are valued by Wall Street in the same way.
Published: May 5, 2016Publisher's Note: Most of us view companies – and assess their value – through an informal combination of what they make, who runs them, the size of their markets, and, all too often, what others are thinking that week. Technology Is Changing How We View Industry, Value Companies, and Develop Strategy By William.
Zoho Focuses on Its Enterprise-Ready Evolution at ZohoDay 2025
Note: Data & Business Intelligence
Zoho offers enterprises practical, AI-driven tools for growth and efficiency with cost-effective solutions for global market challenges.
Key pillars of Zoho’s global strategy, highlighted at ZohoDay 2025. ...to different market verticals encompasses the following key aspects: Integration with apps specific to individual verticalsWe see several key strengths emerging that position the company favorably in the evolving enterprise landscape: Responsible AI leadership: Zoho’s.
Prepare for Cognitive Service Management
Blueprint: Infrastructure & Operations
Natural language processing and machine learning technologies have led to AI-assisted toolsets that promise dramatic IT operations improvements. Don’t fall prey to the AI-bandwagon effect. Review this project to ensure your investment in chatbots and virtual assistants helps you meet actual...
Make ready for AI-assisted IT operations.
This tool evaluates new technologies for inclusion on the roadmap. This workbook provides a high-level analysis of a technology's readiness for adoption based on your organization's needs.It then places the technology on a graph measuring both its readiness and fit to your organization. In addition, it provides warnings for specific issues and.
Infrastructure Roadmap Technology Assessment Tool
Tool: Infrastructure & Operations
This tool evaluates new technologies for inclusion on the roadmap.
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