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The impact of Gartner's top 10 strategic technologies will not center only on the business - their capabilities will also increasingly become integral to future generations of management architecture, according to Gartner, Inc. "We are already seeing the adoption of 'big data' within the IT and operations management [ITOM] industry. In particular, software-as-service [SaaS] management providers now have to collect and synthesize large volumes of data," said Milind Govekar, managing vice president at Gartner. "We also expect more next-generation analytics to come to the forefront to address an increasingly hybrid cloud environment. On the social front, IT service desk social management tools will establish an interactive relationship with end users, enhance end-user productivity, provide a platform to share information and ideas, and market the value of IT to the business." In the fourth quarter of 2011, Gartner identified the 10 technologies and trends that will have the biggest impact for most organizations in 2012. They are: 1. Media tablets and beyond, 2. Mobile-centric applications and interfaces, 3. Contextual and social user experience, 4. The Internet of things, 5. App stores and marketplaces, 6. Next-generation analytics, 7. Big data, 8. In-memory computing, 9. Extreme low-energy servers and 10. Cloud computing.

Many business and IT leaders tasked with executing on social-media-based efforts do not place enough emphasis on the "social" aspect of community participation, according to Gartner, Inc. Although numerous organizations have achieved social media success, failure rates are very high because leaders and managers rely too heavily on social technology functionality and often miss the critical design concerns. "Far too many social media endeavors are failing because the managers leading the efforts lack knowledge of the fundamental principles of mass collaboration," said Anthony Bradley, group vice president at Gartner. "Business and IT leaders must understand the basic nature of mass collaboration and how to deliver on its unique value. Like never before, millions of people can simultaneously create content, share experiences, build relationships, and engage in other forms of productive work and meaningful activities."

"Le marché des applications mobiles en mode « App Store » va s'accélérer dans les prochaines années. Il devrait passer de 25 milliards d'applications téléchargées en 2011 à près de 310 milliards en 2016, selon le Gartner qui en attend plus de 45 milliards cette année. Mais une très large majorité de ces téléchargement se concentre sur les applications gratuites : 89% en 2012. Et la tendance va s'accentuer puisqu'elles composeront 93% de l'offre dans 4 ans. Ce qui constituera tout de même un marché de plus de 9 milliards d'applications achetées. Toujours selon le Gartner, 90% des applications achetées en 2012 coûtent moins de 3 dollars. « Comme pour les applications gratuites, les offres à bas prix vont conduire la majorité des téléchargements, note l'analyste du Gartner Sandy Shen. Les applications entre 99 cents et 2,99 dollars compteront pour 87,5% des téléchargements en 2012, et 96% en 2016. »"

Selon Gartner, la stratégie de gouvernement ouvert du Canada est des plus limitée et manque une dimension importante: le rôle de l'employé, et non seulement du citoyen, comme acteur de la transformation de l'état. 

"ere is a summary of the Gartner Hype Cycle for "Emerging Technologies" for 2012 - what is stated explicitly, what can be inferred. This Hype Cycle is suppose provide insight into emerging technologies that have broad, cross-industry relevance, and are transformational and high impact in potential. Most crowded hype cycle on emerging technologies in last 10 years 48 technologies are listed in this year's hype cycle which is the highest in last ten years. Last year they had 42 - year 2008 was the lowest (27) - year 2005 was the previous highest (44)."

"Selon Gartner, si le big data rend les organisations plus intelligentes, l'open data les rend plus riches. L'open data aurait bien plus de poids pour augmenter les recettes et la valeur commerciale dans les environnements très compétitifs actuels."

Inforoute Santé du Canada (Inforoute) a chargé Praxia Information Intelligence et Gartner Consulting de faire une étude, à l'échelle pancanadienne, visant à connaître l'utilisation de la technologie en télésanté et les avantages obtenus jusqu'à présent. Comme le rapport Avantages et adoption de la télésanté : Lier les patients et les prestateurs dans l'ensemble du Canada, la télésanté a apporté un certain nombre d'avantages en matière d'accès, de qualité et de productivité aux cliniciens, aux patients et au réseau de santé.

How digital is your business?  The quick answer is probably very much when you consider your web sites, Facebook pages, IT systems, email and the like as evidence of being digital.  Viewed from the perspective of digital transactions, most of us are digital experts.  We feel that we are digital.  But are we really being a digital business? The idea of 'being digital' has been around since Nicholas Negroponte's book of the same title back in 1996.  His thesis then, and the operative definition of digital to this day has been the use of technology to replace physical atoms with digital bits.  That notion has driven billions of dollars of investment as companies took analog business processes and turned them into digital information based services.    This creates digital transactions, digital operations, but does that constitute a digital business? We 'feel digital', according to a 2011 survey where more than 2,000 CIOs rated the level of digital technology applied to 12 major business processes.  On average, the CIOs rated 58% of their processes as dependent on digital technology, see the figure below.

While I was thinking about this post, I have seen Tom Slee's one titled "Why the Open Data Movement is a Joke", which has raised some discussion and understandable outrage in the open government circles. Tom's argument starts from underlying an inherent conflict between the Canadian government's decision to join the Open Government Partnerships (see my earlier post) and some of its behaviors. Then he postulated that the Open Data Movement is more focused on formats, digitally-accessible data sets, free access to postal codes, and so on than it is focused on actual government transparency around issues that matter. It's a movement that has had no impact on government accountability

Open government initiatives are either aimed at providing greater transparency, usually as a reaction to an accusation or perception of excessive secrecy, or at engaging citizens in specific problem solution as well as service delivery. It is probably fair to say that the US federal initiatives are closer to the former, while UK initiatives are closer to the latter. In both cases, though, there is a fundamental lack of confidence - or blatant distrust - in the government workforce. This is rooted in a mixture of reality and perception: laziness, risk aversion, self-preservation, lack of incentives, low salaries, a culture of job security, and so forth, do not contribute to creating a pretty picture of government employees. In countries that are struggling with their finances and economy, civil servants are seen as a cost to be reduced in order to recover resources that should help reignite the economy. At the same time many agree that the retirement or dismissal of experienced government workers may make the situation even worse in areas where government services will be in greater demand going forward (think about education, social care, health care, public safety).

"The Knowledge Graph also helps us understand the relationships between things. Marie Curie is a person in the Knowledge Graph, and she had two children, one of whom also won a Nobel Prize, as well as a husband, Pierre Curie, who claimed a third Nobel Prize for the family. All of these are linked in our graph. It's not just a catalog of objects; it also models all these inter-relationships. It's the intelligence between these different entities that's the key."

"DOSSIER Les données transitant dans le cyberespace connaîtront une croissance sidérale de 800 % au cours des cinq prochaines années, prédit Gartner. « Comme ce sont les données qui donnent de la valeur à une entreprise, les conditions sont en place pour que l'informatique décisionnelle connaisse un essor fabuleux », fait observer Stéphane Ricoul, directeur des relations clientèle, Affaires électroniques, Sid Lee Technologies."

"A recent set of studies published by McKinsey Quarterly provides further evidence that the bigger they are the harder they fall.  Given that the McKinsey Quarterly's audience is predominantly business executives rather than IT professionals, it's important that CIOs are aware of the findings and have a reasonable response. Large projects not only fail more often they deliver less.  According to the McKinsey/Oxford study half of IT projects with budgets of over $15 million dollars run 45% over budget, are 7% behind schedule and deliver 56% less functionality than predicted.  That means that:"

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 Two recent announcements from Canada prompt my mood this morning: Canada Joins International Open Government Partnership Conservative Cuts put half of Statscan jobs at risk A government can simultaneously be the most secretive, controlling Canadian government in recent memory and be welcomed into the club of "open government". The announcements highlight a few problems with the "open data movement" (Wikipedia page): It's not a movement, at least in any reasonable political or cultural sense of the word, It's doing nothing for transparency and accountability in government, It's co-opting the language of progressive change in pursuit of what turns out to be a small-government-focused subsidy for industry. In short, the open data movement is a joke. Those who are on the political left who lend their support to it have some hard decisions to make.

The tons of virtual ink that are being used to discuss e-participation, e-democracy, social organizations, enterprise or government 2.0, social media and collaboration seem to assume that everybody is moved by an unstoppable desire to collaborate with others. Vendors, consultants, social media gurus, politicians, communication professionals and amateurs all depict a compelling future where the wisdom of the crowd - be it a project team, a division, a corporation, a cross-section of experts in something, or the population of an entire country - will necessarily replace traditional decision making processes in response to the urge of people of different age, gender, culture, to feel part of something bigger than them. There is an assumption of selflessness as experts donate their time to communities, developers create free applications for everybody to use, communities  replace individuals, and community-building is rewarded more than individual achievements.

Gartner's new Hype Cycle report shows that many small, unimpressive technologies can be combined to bring about futuristic realities. Here's a look.