Posted in Business, Change, CIO, Disruptive Technology, Mobile
At the end of March, I’ll be traveling to Hong Kong to deliver a keynote presentation at SingTel’s CIO Day 2012. In preparation for the talk, I recently reviewed Cisco’s Global Data Traffic Forecast Update for 2012-2016. Here are ten interesting facts CIO’s need to be contemplating today: 1. Monthly global mobile data will surpass…
Posted in Business Model, Future, Health Care, Healthcare Futurist, Insurance, Mobile, Telecommunications
Late last year, I reported mobile web video conferencing was expected to grow 250-fold by 2015. Not surprisingly, I suggested this would impact how a great many people conducted their work. To this end, the field of tele-psychiatry is now taking off. To understand, consider this statement from a professional using tele-confernecing to consult with…
Posted in Agriculture, Cancer, Futurist, General, Health Care, Healthcare Futurist, Higher Education, Mobile, Predictions, Retail/Marketing, Social Media, Transportation
#1: In an attempt to appease consumer unease over the growing use of facial-recognition technology, a handful of retailers will admit prior to “Black Friday” that they have deployed the technology during the 2012 Holiday season but will claim they are using it only as a “safety tool” to monitor crowds and prevent unruly shopper…
Posted in Mobile, Retail/Marketing
I recently gave a keynote presentation on emerging trends to a leading retail association. One of the trends I discussed was mobile payment. I’m optimistic about the trend in the long-term but pessimistic in the short to mid-term. This article and the accompanying Gartner graphic do a good job explaining my rationale.
