Five Trends that will Impact IT

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Technology Trends

Mobile Data in the Cloud

Trend 1: Collaboration• Increasingly Mandated by Funders• Imperative in “These Economic Times”• Multi-Disciplinary Approaches Work Best• It Also Works WITHIN Organizations

Collaboration Implications• Working Wikily• Free Flowing Data• Unified / Mobile Communications• Increase in Email• Security Risks

Trend 2: Changing Work Force• Between 2003 and 2008, tele-working

increased by 43% to 33.7 million Americans*

• Flexible Work Hours Increasing• Job Sharing Increasing

Changing Work Force Implications

• Happier, more productive employees (?)• Less infrastructure to support in-house• New demands on help desk• Remote access security issues• Increased need for collaboration tools

Trend 3: Rise of Consumer Electronics

• Blame the iPhone and Flickr• Tech is un-geekifying• Increased expectation that tech rules don’t

matter• But it makes staff more eager adopters

Rise of Consumer Electronics Implications

• Shift from command and control style of IT management

• Create clear policies• Know what happens when the policies are

broken

Trend 4: Awash in Data• The amount of data produced by the world

will grow by 650% in the next few years & 80% of it will be unstructured

• Data, when used properly becomes intelligence

Awash in Data Implications• Prepare for the onslaught• Open data• Visualize data• Combine data• Turn it Into Intelligence

Trend 5: The Cloud• A style of computing where scalable and

elastic IT-related capabilities are provided as a service to external customers using Internet technologies - Gartner

• Service based• Scalable and Elastic• Shared• Metered• Delivered via Internet

The Cloud Implications• Concentrate on optimization for mission,

not maintenance• More service when you need it, less when

you don’t• More updates with less work• Lower TCO• Multiple delivery formats for services AND

data

Mobile Data in the Cloud

Be Fearless

Fail Informatively

Be Transparent

IT Leadership

IT Staff need leadership skills to understand and explain how technology relates to mission

NP Leaders need skills to make more confident IT decisions and understand how mission relates to technology

www.meetyourmission.org

Social Media

It’s not about Twitter. It’s about the transparency, openness, and access now demanded of us.

We need to rethink how we engage with the public and build new skills.

www.wearemedia.org