The vice-chairman of Operations
and president of Client Solutions for Dell, Mr. Jeff Clarke has given some
seven predictions for 2017 with new job opening for Internet of Things (IoT)
officers, reports ITRealms.
He based
his prediction on the recent poll conducted on business decision-makers
around the world, 66% said competition from digital
start-ups is incentivizing them to invest in their IT infrastructure and
digital skills leadership.
Understandably
so. The last couple of years have been tumultuous to say the least. Every
Blockbuster has its Netflix. Every Borders and Sears has its Amazon. Expect
even more disruption to come down the pike. Established companies are being
out-maneuvered and out-innovated by digital start-ups across the world. Nearly
one in two don’t even know whether they’ll be around in 3-5 years’ time.
But amid the
disruption is opportunity – and lots of it. Here are seven significant trends
for 2017 and beyond (seven being a lucky number). No doubt some of these will
change the way you do business, from the edge, to the core, to the cloud.
Prediction
1: Immersive creativity goes mainstream
2017 will
signal the democratization of immersive creativity. Very soon, creators will be
able to weave their magic with some super powerful technology – and in time,
this technology will be adopted by the wider population.
Builders and
architects will walk onto project sites and use their devices to see full-scale
models of buildings before any work has even begun. Hobbyists will see and do with
a twist of a knob, swipe of their finger, or scribble of a pen. Using touch and
totem rather than point and click, kids will draw their way onto Minecraft.
Prediction
2: Other worldliness
67% of
respondents in our global Future Workforce Studyhave gone on the record saying they
would be willing to use Augmented Reality /Virtual Reality products in their
professional lives. Over the next few years, expect VR/AR to reach a tipping
point.
Hands-free
devices will propel people into parallel worlds, in which their only limitation
will be their imagination. They’ll learn new skills, provide services and
engage with people, without bumping into the time and cost constraints of
physical media.
The blurring
of the physical and virtual worlds could well herald the end of lectures,
binders and incessant note-taking, by bringing education to life with more
immersive senses like touch.
Pokemon Go
may be adding around 700,000 new players a day, but AR and VR are ripe for much
more than just gaming.
Prediction
3: Secure your HVAC
Have you
recently heard your mechanic say that your car needs a software update? Well,
you heard correctly. In the age of the connected world – practically anything
with an IP address can be hacked. The 2015 incident with the Jeep Cherokee is a
case in point.
Expect the
attack perimeter to widen this year and encroach upon other areas of the
business beyond the IT network. Understanding that it’s not just your
data that needs to be protected, but also items like your HVAC infrastructure,
is going to be a critical awakening for businesses going forward.
Prediction
4: 5K blah…
This isn’t
the generation who settles for second-best. Why not? Because we’ve gotten used
to progress at 100mph. R&D teams are constantly working-up a sweat to
surprise and delight their customers. And just when people thought 5K
resolution would supplant 4K as the next industry standard, rumors of large
displays with double the resolution are starting to circulate.
In 2017, people’s
experiences of living in Technicolor will be upgraded further, until the
real-world will look dim in comparison.
Prediction
5: Chief IoT Officer
Business
chiefs are popping-up all over the place. Chief Digital Officers were all the rage
but now there’s a new kid on the block, in the shape of the Chief IoT Officer.
Why do we
need them? Because companies will experience mounting pressure to bridge the
gap between operations and IT.
In a bid to
improve ROI and efficiency, the Chief IoT Officer will work with everyone from
facilities and plant managers to CIOs and CEOs.
They’ll be
the change agents, responsible for pulling their firms into the Fourth
Industrial Revolution, a world which pulses to the rhythm of eight billion
connected devices on the planet today (by 2031, we forecast this will grow to
over 200bn devices or more – 25 times more than the number of people on the
earth). Big job!
Prediction
6: Prevention is better than a cure
Any doctor
will tell you that prevention is better than a cure. And now, thanks to machine
learning, we can tell when a piece of technology is about to break before it
does, and address the issue quickly. With self-healing technology, companies
can deploy talent on more strategic IT projects vs. spending time on break/fix
services.
IDC predicts
by 2020, nearly 20% of operational processes will be self-healing and
self-learning. This represents far fewer fires to put out.
Prediction
7: Machines and their crystal
balls
It’s no
secret that companies – and people – are struggling to cope with the tremendous
amount of data now online. But brace yourselves – large scale data will
soon help machines understand things in brand new ways. For instance, MIT is doing some really cool stuff
with vision perception.
By making machines watch popular TV shows like The Office and Desperate
Housewives, they’re learning how to predict how humans will behave.
The MIT
researchers, he said, believe machine perception will revolutionize industries where
insight can be acquired from data at scale. For example, computer vision may
provide an affordable, more accurate procedure to screen people for medical
issues.
In time,
he said, machines will start to apply their learning across modalities and domains –
making it possible to learn from text or virtual worlds.
Exciting
stuff! Maybe I’ll let the machines write these predictions in a few years’ time
while I watch more of The Office (Desperate Housewives isn’t really my kind of
show).
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