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Gartner's Top Predictions 2016: The Future Is a Digital Thing

Annette ZimmermannResearch Director

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By 2018, 20% of all business content will be authored by machines1

CIO: Identify opportunities to adopt automated content generation services nowNear-Term Flag: Next year, watch for a hiring freeze on copywriters in favor of robowriting solutions

Analysis by: Karen A. Hobert, Martin Kihn

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The "Robos" Have Already Begun to Rise

Machines will create significant amounts of business content

Have you ever wondered how narrative science could be usedto enhanceyour job?

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But how much help can we

afford to give?

A Co-Dependent Relationship Can Be Beneficial

1 MillionNew IoT devices

will be purchased every hour of every

day in 2021

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By 2018, 6 billion connected things will be requesting support2

IT Leaders: Start viewing "things" as customers of services and learn to market to them and to satisfy their nonhuman requestsAnalysis by: Jenny Sussin, Jim Tully, Kristin Moyer and Don Scheibenreif

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If you found outyour dog was an android,

would you still love it?

If you found outyour boss

was a robot,would you obeyits directives?

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By 2018, more than 3 million workers globally will be supervised by a "roboboss" 3

IT Leaders:Train managers to focus on "human" issues such as creative leadership, worker relations and strategic planningAnalysis by: Whit Andrews, Frances Karamouzis, Ken Brant, Helen Poitevin, Tom Austin and Diane Morello

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Worries about system data will be dwarfed by concerns over personal behavioral and health data

Monitoring the Employee Another Step Toward Quantifying the "self"

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By 2018, 2 million employees will be required to wear health and fitness tracking devices as a condition of employment

4

IT leaders:Establish policies for gaining employee permission to share fitness data with wellness providersAnalysis by: Angela McIntyre, Sylvain Fabre, and Adrian Leow

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Diverse Opportunities exist for Head-Mounted Displays though unit shipments will only ramp up by 2019

1.436.31

13.31

24.76

39.87

2016 2017 2018 2019 2020

HMD Shipment Forecast

Smartphone VR

CAGR 168%

Smartphone-VR type devices are currently outselling proper AR/VR HMDs by several million units.Consumer use of HMDs is more advanced than the enterprise market but we expect this gap to close by 2019.

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By 2019, AR, VR, and mixed reality immersive solutions will be evaluated and adopted in 20% of large enterprise businesses

5Develop robust devices, platforms and application suites for HMDs that include both extensible and open systems as well as use-specific software solutions that are integrated into existing information management systems.

Analysis by: Jay Heiser

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The Future Is Ours