The beginning of the year is a good time to take stock of where things are going and try and get a handle on the macro trends affecting our work. Here are six major trends that will encourage leaders to take action and help their organisations to be even more collaborative. Six global trends that encourage enterprise collaboration Global financial crisis . For me that means enterprise collaboration in all its forms. Customers are tightening their belts in preparation for a tough year.

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I looked for 10, but came up with the following 6, as the most important trends that originated in 2008, but will make themselves felt quite strongly in 2009. Which trends do you think I missed? Here’s the trend summary: I was tempted to add p2p currency and p2p energy developments, but I think while there was a lot of discourse about it, I haven’t seen too many realisations yet.

Therefore, innovative and influential nonprofit organizations must monitor these trends carefully. 4) Training Tool: Educators and trainers are already incorporating new technology into the classroom. Tags: Influence Internet Strategy Tips & Trend Apple's new iPad tablet computer has spawned some mixed reactions. Some over-hype it as "magical" and "transformative."

Forrester’s Alex Cullen recently released, The Top 15 Technology Trends EA Should Watch and they were nice to share with me. The summary states, “Forrester has identified 15 technologies with the greatest potential for business impact, and we’ve grouped these technologies into five themes: social computing for enterprises, process-centric information, restructured IT service platforms, Agile applications, and mobile as the new desktop. I I am most interested in social computing for enterprises.

On the occasion of the Second Inclusiva-net Meeting “Digital networks and physical space at the Medialab-Prado in Madrid, Spain, Juan Martín Prada, has written a good overview of all the trends and practices related to the Geospatial Web, which we also cover in a special section of our wiki . All of this is accompanied by proposals that are the beginning of a phase in which the great communicative potentials of pervasive computing, or “ubicomp”, are evident, that is, of all those technologies that enable the management of digital information anywhere, as well as connections and interaction

Exemplifying the time for new ideas and technology to find their way into Technology Evolution As Wikinomics  (2006) and Clara Shih's Facebook Era (2009) detail the trend.  While business strategy + relationship building + technology are all essential. A small and really smart group of people convened by John Maloney Maloney (at the Gleacher Executive Center in Chicago), on November 6 to explore

We’re not quite there yet technologically but there are some things pointing in the direction. Though some developers have patented special profiles and connector designs only they use, the T-slot framing technology itself is largely public domain. This is a potentially more advanced system because of the potential to integrate a great deal of technology within the structural elements while being intuitively simple for the user, though more limited in overall structural Detailed discussion by Eric Hunting : “The ideal situation for P2P architecture is where you can produce structures of small to large scale using intuitively simple modular systems with components on a human scale that are easy for the solitary individual to manipulate and which encode aspects of safety and structural engineering into their interface standards in the same way that the sub-components in a personal computer encode lower levels of engineering into them so that assembly and design higher up the food chain doesn’t have to think much about them.

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Ross Dawson posted his top 10 trends for the 2010s and called it the most wonder if we can say that at the start of every decade with increasing technology. am spoiled and would not want to go back to 60s technology.  0160; The first trend is Information Intensity. Here in more on what to expect in in