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What Does the Future Hold for IT?

By Susan Cramm Nobody knows how technology will be managed or consumed in 5, 10, or 15 years, but we do know that change is coming.

A recent report from the Corporate Executive Board provided a bold and provocative view of the future of IT based on the premise that "technology will be consumed as part of the business." Here are some of the highlights:

What got us here isn't going to get us there. In spite of valiant and tireless efforts on the part of everyone involved, the current IT organizational model falls short in delivering the capability required by the business ("less than 25% of business leaders rated their organization's IT function effective" and this hasn't changed in the last five years.)

The source of IT-enabled value is shifting. "More than half the opportunities for IT enablement are at the customer interface or involve business intelligence or collaboration" (versus process automation.) These activities are unstructured and dynamic where players make decisions and redefine processes based on the situations at-hand, experience, and available information. Business intelligence, collaboration, and advanced implementations of business process management aren't applications as much as they are toolsets. More...

04-29-2010 15:53

FCC pushes forward with broadband agenda

he Federal Communications Commission is moving forward with its National Broadband Plan despite an appeals court decision earlier this week that called into question the agency's authority over regulating the Internet.

FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski on Thursday issued a statement that said the court's decision "does not change our broadband policy goals, or the ultimate authority of the FCC to act to achieve those goals.The court did not question the FCC's goals; it merely invalidated one technical, legal mechanism for broadband policy chosen by prior commissions."

The agency plans to start addressing items from its plan as soon as its next open meeting on April 21. The first two items to be considered are reforms to the Universal Service Fund as well as an examination of competition in the cable set-top box market. More...

04-09-2010 04:42

Google and Partners Seek TV Foothold

Google and Intel have teamed with Sony to develop a platform called Google TV to bring the Web into the living room through a new generation of televisions and set-top boxes.

The move is an effort by Google and Intel to extend their dominance of computing to television, an arena where they have little sway. For Sony, which has struggled to retain a pricing and technological advantage in the competitive TV hardware market, the partnership is an effort to get a leg up on competitors.

The partners envision technology that will make it as easy for TV users to navigate Web applications, like the Twitter social network and the Picasa photo site, as it is to change the channel. More...

03-19-2010 16:45

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