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5 hot IT budget investments — and 2 going cold

CIO Business Intelligence

Fifty-two percent of organizations plan to increase or maintain their IT spending this year, according to Enterprise Strategy Group. Australian experiential tourism company Journey Beyond recently revamped its contact center as part of a customer experience transformation. Enterprise communications services saw slow but steady 1.6%

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Economic structural change is NOT industry compositional change

Trends in the Living Networks

The mindset was to consider the changes in relative sizes of industries in the economy, such as manufacturing getting smaller and tourism becoming larger. …that structural change cannot be viewed as compositional change is that industry definitions are losing virtually all meaning. Enterprise 2.0 The second reason.

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5 (more) IT trends to watch in 2019 and beyond

mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

photo credit: kevin dooley via photopin cc Enterprise technology adoption has changed dramatically over the past decade or so. Everything tech-related went through them–largely because enterprise technology was too complex for end users. Part of the reason for this is the BYOD (bring your own device) movement in the enterprise.

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Try before you fly: Orbite sets schedule for luxurious astronaut orientation sessions

GeekWire

Andrews and Orbite’s other co-founder, French-born tech entrepreneur Nicolas Gaume, have set the schedule for astronaut orientation courses that’ll include virtual-reality simulations, a zero-G flight and a high-G flight — all designed to provide a taste of space without tying the participant down to a particular program.

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Space Perspective reboots vision of flying passengers to stratosphere on a balloon

GeekWire

Seven years ago, he and Poynter had a similar unveiling for World View Enterprises , an Arizona-based venture that aimed to fly people to an altitude of 100,000 feet, at a price of $75,000 a ticket. . “Good things take time,” MacCallum joked during an interview with GeekWire in advance of the big reveal.

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Sneak preview: Future Files: A History of the Next 50 Years by Richard Watson - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

Ross is author most recently of Implementing Enterprise 2.0 , the prescient Living Networks , which anticipated the social network revolution, and the Amazon.com bestseller Developing Knowledge-Based Client Relationships (click on the links for free chapter downloads). Free chapters) Implementing Enterprise 2.0

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List of the world’s top female futurists (Update #5)

Trends in the Living Networks

She has particular knowledge of architecture and urban planning, including a PhD which applied Delphi technique to predict the impacts of introducing tourism to heritage areas. She led a research project on the Future of Data and investigated topics such as 3D printing, social enterprise, and the evolving role of the state.

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