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1. From Digitally Disrupted
to Digital Disrupter
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Accenture Technology Vision 2014

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Since 2007, Accenture
has released an annual
Technology Vision. This report
pinpoints the emerging IT developments
that will have the greatest impact on companies,
government agencies, and other organizations in the years ahead.
About the
Technology
Vision
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3. Every Business is
a Digital Business:
The Evolution
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In 2013, we presented the idea
that Every Business is a Digital
Business – whether they knew it
or not.
This theme is still relevant,
however there is one important
evolution from last year: Large
companies are moving from being
digitally disrupted to becoming
digital disrupters.

4. Big is the Next Big Thing
This year’s Vision identifies six technology trends
that are enabling large enterprises to move from
disrupted to market disrupters, in pushing the
boundaries of innovation and taking advantage of
digital technologies for competitive advantage.
Backed by their deep resources, enormous scale,
and process discipline, these new digerati are
about to rewrite much of the digital playbook.
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Accenture Technology Vision 2014
Six Technology Trends Shaping the future of IT
Digital-
Physical
Blur
Architecting
Resilience
From Workforce
to Crowdsource
Data Supply
Chain
Harnessing
Hyperscale
Business of
Applications
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6. Digital-Physical
Blur:
Extending intelligence
at the Edge
Wearable devices, smart objects
and machines are providing us
with real-time intelligence that is
changing how we live and how
business operate.
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7. From Workforce
to Crowdsource:
Rise of the borderless
enterprise
Using advanced digital tools and platforms,
organizations can now tap into pools of people
across the world, giving them access to an
immense, agile workforce…one not just better
suited to solving problems, but also one that
may do so for free.
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8. Data Supply
Chain:
Putting information
into circulation
Data needs to be something
that is transported through a
supply chain, is shared,
used and repurposed – just
like other products.
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9. Harnessing
Hyperscale:
Hardware is back
(and it never really
went away)
Eclipsed by over a decade of
innovation in software, the hardware
world is now a hotbed of innovation
with demand soaring for
unprecedented levels of performance
in storage, processors and
specialized servers.
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10. Business of
Applications:
Software as a core
competency in the
digital world
Take data from being siloed and
unmanaged to an integrated resource,
managed end-to-end through a data
supply chain...while taking analytics
from an art to an industrialized, fully
embedded capability.
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11. Architecting
Resilience:
“Built to survive
failure” - the mantra of
the nonstop business
CIOs who truly understand the
concept of resiliency are transitioning
their organizations to an always-on
state, phasing in resilience initiatives
as business risk and process
economics dictate.
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