- By 2015, there will be more than 40 vendors with commercially available managed services offerings leveraging smart machines and industrialized services.
These machines will affect both physical labor and tasks based on complex knowledge. However, Smart machines won’t replace humans entirely “as people still need to steer the ship and are critical to interpreting digital outcomes” says Gartner.
- By the end of 2015, mobile digital assistants will have taken on tactical mundane processes such as filling out names, addresses and credit card information and by the end of 2016, will perform more than $2 billion in online shopping.
- By 2015, more than 90% of online retailers of durable goods will actively seek external partnerships to support the new “personalized” product business models and by 2017, nearly 20% of these retailers will use 3D printing to create personalized product offerings.
- By the end of 2016, 50% of digital transformation initiatives will be unmanageable due to lack of portfolio management skills, leading to a measurable negative lost market share.
- By 2017, a significant disruptive digital business will be launched that was conceived by a computer algorithm, successfully blending the physical and digital world.
“This year, enterprises will spend over $40 billion designing, implementing and operating the Internet of Things”.
- By 2017, over 50% of total IT spending will be outside of IT.
- By 2018, digital businesses will require 50% less business process workers and 500% more key digital business jobs. The top jobs for digital over the next seven years will be:
- Integration Specialists
- Digital Business Architects
- Regulatory Analysts
- Risk Professionals
- By 2020, life expectancy will increase by 0.5 years due to widespread adoption of wireless health monitoring technology.
