Trends in Business Information Technology
Trends in Business Information Technology
Trends in Business Information Technology
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<strong>Trends</strong> <strong>in</strong> Bus<strong>in</strong>ess<br />
<strong>Information</strong> <strong>Technology</strong><br />
Dr. Benito Teehankee<br />
Chairman, Management and Organization Department<br />
Ramon V. del Rosario College of Bus<strong>in</strong>ess<br />
De La Salle University
Important trends<br />
• Touch user <strong>in</strong>terface<br />
• Next generation mobile<br />
• Cloud comput<strong>in</strong>g<br />
• Social media<br />
• Consumerization of IT (CoIT)<br />
• Future trend: Semantic web<br />
• Implications for education
Touch User Interface
Consumerization of IT<br />
• “Consumerization is the grow<strong>in</strong>g tendency for new <strong>in</strong>formation<br />
technology to emerge first <strong>in</strong> the consumer market and then<br />
spread <strong>in</strong>to bus<strong>in</strong>ess and government organizations.”<br />
• Consumerization of IT “refers to the use of personal consumer<br />
electronics at work -- like iPhones and tablet PCs – [and] also<br />
onl<strong>in</strong>e services, <strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g onl<strong>in</strong>e data storage, Web-based email<br />
services ("web mail"), and social media or social network<strong>in</strong>g<br />
sites like Facebook and Twitter.”<br />
• More companies around the world are provid<strong>in</strong>g support for<br />
personal devices.<br />
• There are security risks, however.
Consumerization of IT
Consumerization: Google Play Store
Consumerization of IT
Some Apps I like<br />
• Notes Recorder
Cloud comput<strong>in</strong>g<br />
• Cloud comput<strong>in</strong>g “the use of comput<strong>in</strong>g resources (hardware<br />
and software) that are delivered as a service over a network<br />
(typically the Internet). … Cloud comput<strong>in</strong>g entrusts remote<br />
services with a user's data, software and computation.”<br />
• Amazon launched its Amazon Web Service (AWS) on a utility<br />
comput<strong>in</strong>g basis <strong>in</strong> 2006. Various services have emerged<br />
s<strong>in</strong>ce then with Google (e.g., Google Apps and Google Drive)<br />
and other providers giv<strong>in</strong>g their own services.
Next generation mobile<br />
• Next generation mobile (which <strong>in</strong>cludes smart devices and<br />
tablets) is projected to equal PCs <strong>in</strong> market number <strong>in</strong> three<br />
years or so.<br />
• This means that bus<strong>in</strong>ess people will expect to do nearly<br />
everyth<strong>in</strong>g mobile.<br />
• More powerful and smaller tablets are com<strong>in</strong>g out <strong>in</strong> the<br />
market. Microsoft is com<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> with Surface and W<strong>in</strong>dows 8<br />
• Grade school students are be<strong>in</strong>g raised on tablets
Social media<br />
• Social media isn’t just for friends anymore.<br />
• IBM calls it “social bus<strong>in</strong>ess” and they even have a vicepresident<br />
for social media.<br />
• The top uses for social bus<strong>in</strong>ess are events promotion and<br />
market<strong>in</strong>g campaigns, sales lead and revenue generation,<br />
product and service support and direct sell<strong>in</strong>g to customers.<br />
• Twitter is real-time feedback for any activity
L<strong>in</strong>ked Data: The Semantic Web<br />
• HTML only presents <strong>in</strong>formation <strong>in</strong> web sites<br />
• L<strong>in</strong>ked data will “talk to each other”<br />
• Tim Berners-Lee <strong>in</strong>vented http and HTML – he is now<br />
push<strong>in</strong>g for l<strong>in</strong>ked data
Implications for Education<br />
• Apps development<br />
• Use the cloud<br />
• Ethics: Address grow<strong>in</strong>g Internet addiction and social media<br />
misuse<br />
• Focus on productivity