Forrester Analysts Release Their 2015 Predictions: The Gap Widens

Forrester has issued their top IT predictions on everything from mobile to security and big data analytics and from the Internet of Things (IoT) to the changing role of the CIO.  The biggest takeaway: The gap between digital leaders and laggards will widen… and the need for digital coaching and training will increase as a result.

Other key predictions:
1.    Almost half of the world will have a powerful computer in their pocket and vastly different expectations from your business in 2015
2.    Apple will rule 2015
3.    More money spent on security will lead to… more security breaches-related losses
4.    Data is the new product
5.    Many established companies will become venture capitalists
6.    Some sectors will not see the fruits of digitization for a long time
7.    The Cloud is the New Normal
8.    In 2015, many organizations will answer the question “Who’s your digital daddy?” with a three- letter acronym……the newly hired Chief Digital Officer (CDO)

For detail on these forecasts: http://clk.ie/4t8XvM

Lee at Scredible

Web Summit Like The Web Itself

Dublin’s Web Summit last week was an impossible joy — some 22,000+ attendees fueled by Red Bull and Google cafe lattes, 700+ vendors dreaming of glory, 500+ speakers trying not to rely on PowerPoint, 200+ investors trying not to get pigeonholed, 20+ celebrities lured in for eye candy, and just 3+ days to take it all in…

In that sense, the Dublin conference was a lot like the internet — more than you could ever wrap your mind around, but with so much innovation and crazy, it’s sure worth a try.

We met some amazing talents at the Summit, and are jazzed about their businesses…

Mark Mapes at eiTalent — in ways similar to Scredible, Marc’s company dives into the intent and often hidden meanings in written text to yield useful pearls. Those pearls being actionable insights into the potential next move of your customers. Marc is the sweet spot of sentiment analysis — which can be the best of the internet’s future.

Ben Wilson at Lateral — this startup is using machine learning to help people discover the information they need when they need it. Get recommendations, directions, files from the archive, all kinds of things. Very sharp team.

Martin Linkov at Ingen.io — as the company name suggests, there’s some ingenuousness to their platform, which dives into unstructured databases (like social media activity) and comes back to the surface with useful knowledge sets and thus, competitive advantage. Another sharp team.

Dale Roberts of Artesian Solutions — Dale just co-authored Decision Sourcing: Decision Making for the Agile Social Enterprise. From the book’s opening quote — Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Caribbean — Dale makes big data analytics fun and functional. He’s thinking on the cutting edge of social CRM — which is surely where business is headed. Good read, good company.

Lee Smallwood at Nod3x — the name is inside baseball for techies (reads ‘Nodex’) and the platform might appeal only to seriously caffeinated techies looking to reach every last breathing human interested in a product, but that’s a good audience. There are a lot of great influencer marketing platforms with many of them showcasing at Web Summit, but Nod3x stood out for us.

Filipe Pinto at Stuffistry — very clever play on the massively emerging internet of things (IoT). Stuffistry helps you collect, organize, and share things you love, but it also wants to be a ratings/reputation/ranking platform for the IoT. It’s similar to Scredible in that sense, but playing in what could be the biggest space of the future. We’re following!

 

The Scredible Team