Technical trends from an HR perspective  |  October 23, 2009  

A few weeks ago I participated in a technical trend conversation aimed mainly at the oil and gas organizations. Last weekend I did something similar but this time talking with some individuals from various HR organizations - at an HR Roundtable Summit that SMU held in San Antonio.

Their rankings came out it four tiers:

The highest level of interest was:

• Predictive Analytics
• Web 3.0/Semantic web

The next highest grouping was:

• Digitized voice & and transfer to system
• IT Virtualization
• Social Media Monitors
• Content Analytics
• Sustainability/optimization
• Event Driven Architectures

The lowest grouping receiving votes were:

• Process Modeling
• Context-aware computing
• Offline Web applications
• Cloud computing
• Sensor Networks and Real-world Integration
• Simulation/Modeling
• Dynamic business applications
• Web 2.0
• Extended Enterprise/federation

And those with no votes:

• 3D Visualization
• Interoperability standards
• Reference Data Models
• Enterprise Master Data Management
• Complex Event Processing
• Intelligent software assistant

These are quite different ratings than the previous set so it shows how important it is to know your organizations definition of innovation.

Charlie Bess
The Next Big Thing blog