10 Digital Strategy Predictions for 2014
- Business strategy moves from embracing the app to being built around the app.
- Business strategy becomes talent rather than boardroom driven.
- Employees are actively encouraged to bring their whole selves to work and not just their one-dimensional professional shell.
- The implications of becoming customer-centric become apparent to enterprise leaders. The winners will be those that take the necessary action.
- Even though many Chief Marketing Officers are ill-equipped to drive digital strategy, (and have very little interest in IT beyond the services provided) they may find that themselves in charge of the IT function.
- The clock-speed at which new technologies disrupt the market overtakes the clock-speed at which IDC, Forrester and Gartner can arrange conferences.
- The Internet of Things triggers the morphing of the white/brown box markets from a hardware purchase model to one based on service.
- Dark assets become main stream. Hospital beds and supermarket trolleys for example move to the heart of digital strategy.
- The automation of blue collar workers will continue. The ‘blue collarisation’ of white collar workers will accelerate.
- An over-reliance on the perspectives of Gen Y will lead to significant mis-direction in respect of digital strategy.