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McKinsey's in-house think tank compiled a cheat sheet for the future of tech. People pay plenty of money for consulting giants to help them figure out which technology trends are fads and which will stick. You could go that route, or get the same thing from the McKinsey Global Institute's in-house think-tank for the cost of a new book. No Ordinary Disruption: The Four Global Forces Breaking All the Trends, was written by McKinsey directors Richard Dobbs, James Manyika, and Jonathan Woetzel, and offers insight into which developments will have the greatest impact on the business world in coming decades. Below, we're recapping their list of the "Disruptive Dozen"-the technologies the group believes have the greatest potential to remake today's business landscape.

"Gartner Says That by 2017, 25 Percent of Enterprises Will Have an Enterprise App Store Growing Number of Enterprise Mobile Devices and Enterprise Adoption of MDM Will Drive Demand and Adoption of Enterprise App Stores Analysts Examine the State of the Industry at Gartner Application Architecture, Development By 2017, 25 percent of enterprises will have an enterprise app store for managing corporate-sanctioned apps on PCs and mobile devices, according to Gartner, Inc. Enterprise app stores promise greater control over the apps used by employees, greater control over software expenditures and greater negotiating leverage with app vendors, but this greater control is only possible if the enterprise app store is widely adopted.  "Apps downloaded from public app stores for mobile devices disrupt IT security, application and procurement strategies," said Ian Finley, research vice president at Gartner. "Bring your own application (BYOA) has become as important as bring your own device (BYOD) in the development of a comprehensive mobile strategy, and the trend toward BYOA has begun to affect desktop and Web applications as well. Enterprise app stores promise at least a partial solution but only if IT security, application, procurement and sourcing professionals can work together to successfully apply the app store concept to their enterprises. When successful, they can increase the value delivered by the application portfolio and reduce the associated risks, license fees and administration expenses."  Gartner has identified three key enterprise app store trends and recommendations of how organizations can benefit from them:  The increasing number of enterprise mobile devices and the adoption of mobile device management (MDM) by enterprises will drive demand and adoption of enterprise app stores. Enterprises already have numerous choices for downloading software onto PCs, but most of them don't include support for smartphones and tablets. Enterprises are beginning to f

Very soon you will be able to earn money just by walking.A new app is about to be launched which will convert your steps into a cryptocurrency similar to Bitcoin. With Bitwalking you simply generate money by walking. Once installed on your phone, the free app converts steps to Bitwalking dollars (BW$) that you can manage and use as you wish. The money you generate accumulates each day, and remains in your account until transferred or spent. This is presented by the app designers as a disruptive and revolutionary innovation (they usually are) but also one with a moral mission. It is proposed that it can help to improve health and happiness by encouraging more exercise. Also, it can improve the environment through pushing us into walking rather than driving and because it mine coins through human movement rather than via computers. (...) Even more audaciously Bitwalking is also suggested as a enabling freedom and equality. We believe that everyone should have the freedom, and ability, to make money. A step is worth the same value for everyone - no matter who you are, or where you are. What matters is how much you walk. The drive to do social good has been presented as central to the development of this new app with the creators including developing countries, such as Malawi, amongst their test sites. Sportswear brands, charities, health insurance companies and environmental groups are to be targeted for involvement in the Bitwalking marketplace where the virtual currency can be used to buy goods or trade for real money. Also, the data will be made available to advertisers(with security and anonymity safeguards, of course). I have previously developed an argument that self-tracking is contributing towards a reconceptualisation of exercise into labour. Here I suggested that the standardisation of exercise activities through tracking and digitisation and their subsequent accumulation into valuable (to advertisers, insurers and others) data means that

The jobs won't all necessarily be lost, as technology will also make many workers more productive, but as always there will be losers, according to McKinsey and Company in their report into the most disruptive technologies for the next decade.

Report| McKinsey Global Institute Disruptive technologies: Advances that will transform life, business, and the global economy http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/business_technology/disruptive_technologies

"Social networks disrupt hierarchical structures. Web-based social networks accelerate the spread of new ideas and lay bare organizational flaws. Anyone in a position of power and authority is losing some of that due to the growing power of social networks - doctors, teachers, managers, politicians. Social networks speed access to knowledge and accelerate learning. They allow people to quickly make and change connections. Seb Paquet calls this "ridiculously easy group-forming"."

"Fin du travail, plein d'amis mais sans famille, apatrides du numérique. Le "Digital Labor" sera à n'en pas douter la problématique politique et économique des 50 prochaines années. Il amènera des changements et des disruptions profondes dont nous peinons encore aujourd'hui à mesurer l'ampleur. Ces bouleversements se structureront autour de 3 grands axes en revanche déjà identifiables : celui de ce capitalisme de la surveillance et du rôle des GAFAM celui du salariat algorithmique cette fois préempté par le modèle d'une partie des NATU (AirB'B et Uber donc) et celui, enfin, d'une nouvelle classe 'trans-' ou 'hyper-'sociale, le cognitariat, et sa version sombre, le lumpen-cognitariat dont je vous parlais dans mon billet sur "les coolies de la pop économie"."

"To recap: Social media are ways to contain and recapture the productive and potentially disruptive energy of the cooperation engendered by the capitalist production process, which depends on bringing workers together, dividing labor among them, and generating/capturing the surplus that emerges from their effort to work together. Cooperative efforts - sociality - are captured by social media and made into data: that is, they are made fungible, abstract, countable. This data then sets cooperative workers back into competition with one another, now competing over and in terms of measurable influence, attention, contribution, network links and so on. The struggle comes to seem like the very struggle for personal identity, but it's just the opposite; it's the struggle to render what is personal about oneself into something that is generally exploitable to whatever company wants it."

Faut-il s'inscrire sur Twitter quand on est patron d'une entreprise ? Et quels sont les enjeux et les bénéfices derrière ? Autant de questions que les chefs d'entreprises français commencent à se poser.

"La "réalité sociale augmentée" postule qu'en collectant les données comportementales des employés, il est possible de modifier la configuration de l'espace de travail pour optimiser les relations entre employés."

Les faiblesses du BYOD ont donné naissance à un autre modèle d'appareils achetés par l'entreprise mais activés par les employés (COPE). Dans un cas comme dans l'autre la sécurité et les logiciels de productivité peuvent également apporter une réponse à ces préoccupations.

"INNOVATION, the elixir of progress, has always cost people their jobs. In the Industrial Revolution artisan weavers were swept aside by the mechanical loom. Over the past 30 years the digital revolution has displaced many of the mid-skill jobs that underpinned 20th-century middle-class life. Typists, ticket agents, bank tellers and many production-line jobs have been dispensed with, just as the weavers were."

Les entreprises ne se digitalisent plus seulement pour offrir des services à distance mais également pour répondre à une mutation profonde des attentes des usagers. La question est de savoir comment les marques peuvent reconstruire une proximité avec leurs clients grâce aux nouvelles technologies.

Pour les employeurs et les recruteurs, de nombreux marchés pour l'instant attractifs vont connaître des difficultés dans les années à venir, obligeant le secteur du recrutement à se concentrer sur de nouveaux modèles et non pas seulement à trouver des moyens de maintenir les anciens flux de revenus. C'est ce que dévoile un rapport mené par Evenbase qui compare les marchés de recrutement à travers le monde et dresse une liste des pays les plus concernés pour montrer la façon dont le paysage de recrutement numérique va évoluer.

"As digital production is at the very heart of cognitive capitalism, the digital commons is not just any other disruption of the process of commodification. This is the field of a fierce struggle over the future of the Internet and the future of capitalism itself. It is potentially the moment which moves back the frontiers of measurement, value and quantification towards qualities, values and an expansion of the gift economy. For this potential to unfold, it is vital that those who are giving, sharing, and contributing for the benefit of humanity are supported by global policies that enable them to do so. They have to be supported because their gifts are not based on reciprocity and the obligation to return the gift. This is an argument about the future of digital labour. The article concludes that this could be achieved through a global basic income scheme."

"Allen, a PhD chemist who works for the Dow Chemical Company in Pennsylvania, began to think about ways he could leverage r/science's massive reach to connect scientists to the general public. R/science is a default subreddit, meaning it's visible to people visiting Reddit.com even if they aren't logged in. According to internal metrics Allen has access to, r/science gets between 30,000 and 100,000 unique visitors a day; it's arguably the largest community-run science forum on the internet. So what if r/science were to form an AMA series of its own, focused solely on working scientists who are producing interesting, groundbreaking research?"

"Une startup basée à Boston développe une application destinée à suivre les actions des employés grâce à des capteurs sans fils placés dans les espaces de travail."