Blue Chip Consulting Firm and Its Predictions for 2016
December 27, 2015
I read “10 Business and Technology Trends to Watch in 2016.” These prognostications come from a unit of Accenture called Fjord.
What’s interesting about this list of which horses will win assorted races is that the forecast does not include the phrase “artificial intelligence.” Also, missing in action is the IoT mantra. You know, gentle reader, that your refrigerator will phone home to your health insurance provider when you snag a sugar and fat infused snack during March Madness.
Here’s the list. How many of these buzzwords do you recognize? Hint: Not many. The object of the listing is to stimulate you to hire Fjord to cleave the glacier of your understanding with the white hot heat of the consulting firm’s insight:
- Micromoments
- Services with manner
- The employee experience
- Disappearing apps
- Flattening of privilege
- Government for the people
- Health in our own hands
- Virtual reality
- The return of simplicity
- Design from within.
Quite a list. I am still puzzled with the micromoments thing. Perhaps this is a reflection of the “quality time” blue chip consultants try to set aside for appropriate interaction with their families. Some of the other predictions are Zen like; for example, flat privilege except for those with platinum airline reward cards and the return of simplicity to partner office decorations. And there is no reference to search, content processing, or predictive analytics. There are subsumed under the metaphors used to predict the future. Delphic in a way I surmise.
There you have it. Enjoy your employee experience when you miss your goals for the quarter, gentle reader.
Stephen E Arnold, December 27, 2015
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