Project Management

What a Difference a Year Makes

Michael R. Wood is a Business Process Improvement & IT Strategist Independent Consultant. He is creator of the business process-improvement methodology called HELIX and founder of The Natural Intelligence Group, a strategy, process improvement and technology consulting company. He is also a CPA, has served as an Adjunct Professor in Pepperdine's Management MBA program, an Associate Professor at California Lutheran University, and on the boards of numerous professional organizations. Mr. Wood is a sought after presenter of HELIX workshops and seminars in both the U.S. and Europe.


Topics: Applications Delivery, Business Intelligence, Communications Management, Information Technology, Strategy

Oh, what a difference a year makes--at least from the perspective of IT technologies that will dominate the landscape in 2011. Much has changed on that front since 2010, according to Gartner. Last year Gartner predicted that the top IT technologies would be:

  Gartner in 2010

 Changes for 2011 

1 Cloud Computing Cloud Computing
2 Advanced Analytics  Mobile Applications & Media Tablets
3 Client Computing  Next Generation Analytics
4  IT for Green  Social Analytics
5 Reshaping the Data Center  Social Communications & Collaboration
6 Social Computing  Video
7 Security  Context Aware Computing
8 Flash Memory  Ubiquitous Computing
9 Virtualization for Availability  Storage Class Memory
10 Mobile Applications  Fabric-Based Infrastructures & Computers (back from 2009)

 

Cloud Computing remains number one on the top ten hit parade. The real question is whether …


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