| Description: | The Emerging ICT for Competitive Advantage Briefing is a half-day presentation designed to enhance delegates’ appreciation of the latest trends in Information and Communications Technology, as well as developments that are ‘on the horizon’ and may have significant business implications in the medium term. The presentation starts by considering a current generic IT system architecture, placing leading-edge and future development in the context of that structure. It then proceeds to outline the essentials of each of the latest areas of development; these include Wireless, digital signatures, open-source software and Linux, component software and web-system ‘hacking’. Finally, there is a section on technologies and trends that may prove significant within the decade; examples include quantum computing (which may revolutionise cryptography), nanotechnology and 4G wireless. The entire presentation considers much more than the status quo: it consistently looks forward to new technologies and trends, and their likely impact on the enterprise. |
| Audience | This Briefing is suitable for IT Managers and Directors, general Business Managers and Directors, and Project/Programme Managers. All of these need a high-level view of emerging ICT trends and how the maximum business benefit can be derived from their adoption. |
| Objectives | On completion of this Briefing, delegates will:
• Have a new perspective on ICT and a high-level view of the constituent technologies, processes and business implications.
• Be aware of the main components of modern IT systems infrastructure.
• Have a sense of the business possibilities presented by Wireless and other emerging technologies and trends.
• Be able to place all the emerging technologies and processes the context of a well-understoood generic IT architecture.
• Enhance their ability to make informed business management decisions relating to planning and acquisition of new ICT systems and their impact on the wider organisation. of the practical and process aspects of managing large enterprise ICT systems.
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