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Insight
When it comes to making long-term predictions, most so-called experts fare no better than "dart-throwing monkeys." Or so Nobel prize-winning author Daniel Kahneman claimed in a recent interview1 about his best-selling book Thinking Fast and Slow.
Stating that the "cloud" will be a trend in 2012 is sort of like saying it's going to snow in Alaska. By the looks of the relentless marketing hype from everything that breathes and eats in IT vendor-land, one could argue we are enduring a cloud blizzard. Trend spotting this is not.
There is big data about Big Data. Every genre of publication (trade press, mainstream business media, newspapers, journals of science for scientists, and journals of science for nonscientists) has run or is running cover articles on Big Data.1 Each article opines about the game-changing and transformative impacts associated with Big Data.
2012: The Dawn of a New Era
With the rise of social media, the ubiquity of consumer technology, and the emergence of Big Data tools and cloud computing, 2012 will go down in history as the transition to a new way of computing for organizations.
THE TREND
Social media has -- in just a few short years -- become a major driver of operational and strategic decisions that cross-cut corporate awareness, brands, customer service, product development, reputation management, and, ultimately, business purpose. Social media impacts the top and bottom lines of all companies that sell and service anything.
There is big data about Big Data. Every genre of publication (trade press, mainstream business media, newspapers, journals of science for scientists, and journals of science for nonscientists) has run or is running cover articles on Big Data.1 Each article opines about the game-changing and transformative impacts associated with Big Data.
When it comes to making long-term predictions, most so-called experts fare no better than "dart-throwing monkeys." Or so Nobel prize-winning author Daniel Kahneman claimed in a recent interview1 about his best-selling book Thinking Fast and Slow.
