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Connect. Learn. Change the World.
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