Three key trends for 2017 - The Advisor

This piece, written by MWD Advisors' lead analysts Angela Ashenden, Neil Ward-Dutton and Craig Wentworth, provides an overview of the key trends we see organisations facing in 2017 (and beyond). If you're in a technology leadership role, you should be exploring how these trends will impact the ways you plan, design, deliver and support services and capabilities. At MWD Advisors, our research program is focused, at a high level, on how digital technology changes work. The core of our scope of research is the systems and platforms organisations use to share knowledge, make decisions and co-ordinate work; we look at how new technologies are changing the picture, and what distinguishes successful organisations that reap the benefits of new technologies from those that struggle to drive meaningful change. The three trends we outline below are fundamentally changing the relationship between technology and business.