Eight business technology trends to watch

Happy New Year!

I have been remiss in my absence from posting over the holiday season. However, it was quite refreshing to turn off the computer and take a total break. I know 2008 is going to be an interesting and busy year, so now I am refreshed and ready to get back into it.

In a recent scan of RSS feeds, I came across an interesting article in the McKinsey Quarterly, discussing Eight business technology trends to watch in 2008. They are:

1. Distributing cocreation
2. Using consumers as innovators
3. Tapping into a world of talent
4. Extracting more value from interactions
5. Expanding the frontiers of automation
6. Unbundling production from delivery
7. Putting more science into management
8. Making businesses from information

If you have read Wikinomics, you would probably be familiar with a lot of the thoughts and views expressed here. However, what is good to note, is that when they get into a McKinsey type publication, then you know that there are more mainstream (read traditional) businesses beginning to think about their implications and how to proactively captialising upon the change that is happening now.