So here's an interesting Harvard Business Review article, here, about where tech is going in 2023.
It covers all the areas you would expect
1. Combination trends, like VR and AI, I get that.
2. Preparing your board for tipping point technologies, I really get behind this and I will come onto this in a moment.
3. Freeing your engineers, moving them from maintaining your current IT estate to creating IT systems for the future.
4. Going into the cloud. Which is a great way to reduce cost and to provide business flexibility.
5. Changing needs of cyber security. The work environment has changed.
These are all super points and it's a well written article, packed with research, but ...
It does not mention the single most transformative technology today and that is the shift to digital ways of working.
What do I mean?
Well, we all know that our buyers, job seekers, investors have all shifted onto digital.
One minute you are walking the dog, then next minute you have got out your mobile and your in digital.
You are on Linkedin, or twitter or facebook.
Maybe you are searching for this year's holiday and you do it online. I'm currently researching a holiday and haven't spoken to a single salesperson and won't do until I'm pretty sure I know what I want.
This is the shift: buyers are digital savvy, job hunters are digital savvy, investors are digital savvy.
This means your employees, your future employees, your buyers and you future customers, your investors and your future investors are all digital savvy.
So where isn't this being talked about?
Being digital savvy as salespeople is a business imperative today, empowering your employees to be talent influencers is a business imperative today.
Being able to walk digital corridors and have digital conversations is a business imperative today.
Being digital is a fundamental business skill, just like Excel, Word and Powerpoint skills were 20 years ago.
That's why you need to prepare your board for tipping point technologies.
6 Questions to prepare your leaders for their next board meeting
Questions to challenge your Board to if your business is digital ready!
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Summary. A group of McKinsey’s technology practice leaders have taken a look at what 2023 might hold, and offer a few new year’s tech resolutions to consider: 1) Look for combinatorial trends, in which the sum impact of new technologies create new opportunities. 2) Prep boards for tipping point technologies. 3) Relieve the bureaucratic burden on your engineers to increase their productivity. 4) Look for new opportunities in the cloud. 5) Take advantage of how the cloud is changing security. 6) Take advantage of decentralized AI capabilities — and what this technology might mean for your business model.
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