Every 15 years or so, the information technology landscape has been radically transformed – minicomputers, personal computers and the dot.com boom.  Each of these waves of change has been significantly more powerful than its predecessor and featured important new companies, technologies and applications.

Today, the combination of mobility, social media, the cloud and the whole as-a-service movement gives every indication of forming another such wave.  This report identifies 30 different potential game-changers (20 positive, 10 negative).  It is designed to raise awareness and help IT and non-IT executives position their firms for an increasingly technology-intensive future.  While many of the advances discussed in this paper are rooted in consumer markets and will significantly affect society at large, our focus is on their likely impact on large organizations over the course of the current decade.

Those IT organizations that anticipate and navigate the challenges raised in this report will become increasingly vital partners in their firm’s future.

View a short video clip of David Moschella discussing this research and see how organizations are responding to these changes here.

Read and comment on David Moschella's blog post on this topic here.