Industry
The status quo is changing for most industries as boundaries blur between fields due to innovation, disruption, and digitally-driven change. That’s why keeping abreast of emerging trends in sectors outside your own is vital, not only because your organization’s competitive landscape may be changing, but because there are universal, strategic lessons to learn from the opportunities and threats convergence poses for every marketplace. We examine emerging trends and the impact of evolving tech in key fields such as healthcare, financial services, telco, energy, mobility, and more to help you capitalize on the possibilities of the future while managing the challenges of today.
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Evolutionary E-Government
In the coming decade, governments will continue to realize incremental, technology-enabled improvements through the application of proven or emerging IT process improvement principles. Government 2.0 will continue to hold sway.
The use of IT in government can touch millions of lives and benefit, or limit, the development of a region or entire nations. However, the rules for IT in government are not exactly the same as in the private sector. Projects are not necessarily justified in terms of income, and the equation for defining a good initiative can change depending on the distance to an election.
Municipal government, at the city, township, and village level, is a foundation for day-to-day living. Local elected officials, city administration and staff, and volunteer boards and committees provide the services that figuratively and literally pave the environment in which residents live, work, and play.
THE GOVERNMENTAL CHALLENGE:"DO MORE WITHOUT MORE"
Today governments at all levels in the US, and indeed around the world, are dealing with declining revenues and increasing costs across the board. Thus, government executives are challenged each day to do more with less -- or as Ashton B.
E-government -- once a bold experiment and now an important tool for public sector transformation -- has progressed to the point where it is now a force for effective governance and citizen participation, both at national and local levels. This is important.
-- Sha Zukang, UN Under Secretary General for Economic and Social Affairs
Being named CIO at the newly created Agency of Governmental Control (Agencia Gubernamental de Control [AGC]) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, gave coauthor Pablo Lera a great opportunity -- the challenge of helping to address and resolve the needs of citizens and the AGC. Overcoming political, financial, and typical bureaucratic hurdles is his daily exercise.
There's a brand-new layer of digital intelligence being conceived upon the world's century-old electric power grid by way of your regional electric power utility, through your new smart meter, and extending into your future home and business energy management systems and smart appliances. It's called the Smart Grid.
The Electric Power Research Institute defines it as follows:
Abstract
There's a digital revolution descending squarely upon an industry that time (and TCP/IP) nearly forgot: our aging, yet highly reliable, electric utility grid. The Smart Grid is to be borne upon the innovations and technologies of the Internet, melding with traditional electric utility generation, transmission, and distribution protocols of the past century. How will the Smart Grid influence consumers in their use of energy? Who will collectively manage (and secure) the Smart Grid's "digital exhaust"?