Disruptive Technology in the Enterprise: Future trends, impact and vulnerabilities to substitution published by Business Insights in November, 2009. This report consists of 165 pages and the price starts from US $ 2875.
Abstract
During unfavourable economic conditions, technological innovation is one of
the first investments to suffer. However, as history has shown, ignoring
technological innovation and development can leave organisations, and indeed
entire industries, vulnerable to disruption from new technologies. This report
explains what disruption is, what causes it, and how organisations can avoid
it.
The motor car, mobile phones, personal computers, and so on, are all examples
of disruptive technologies. There are numerous examples throughout modern
business history of disruptive technologies appearing, apparently from
nowhere, to threaten and ultimately displace existing technologies and the
industries and vendors that grew up around them - such as the mainframe
industry, communications and storage.
But disruption is rarely a consequence of technology innovation alone, rather
a reflection of how existing organizations and markets deal with it. While
disruptive innovation can be seen as a threat, it is also an opportunity, and
indeed a necessity in the rapidly evolving world of IT and business technology.
Modern history suggests that accurate prediction of disruptive technologies is
challenging, however a look at past examples can reveal important
characteristics and similarities between disruptive technologies. This report
aims to provide insight into the patterns and characteristics of potentially
disruptive technologies and innovation trends, and provide ways of assessing
vulnerability to disruption. As a result, organizations can use this insight
to understood how best to avoid the threat of disruption.
Table of Contents
Executive summary
- Strategies for assessing disruptive technology
- NAND Flash storage
- Infrastructure virtualization
- Cloud computing
- Open source communications devices
Chapter 1 - Introduction and scope of the report
- Introduction
- Who is this report for?
- Research methodology
- Definitions
- Disruptive technology
- NAND Flash storage
- Infrastructure virtualization
- Cloud computing
- Open source communications devices
Chapter 2 - Strategies for assessing disruptive technology
- Introduction
- What is a disruptive technology?
- Examples of disruptive technologies
- Defining disruptive patterns
- The Innovator' s Dilemma
- The evolution of a disruptive technology
- Characteristics of a disruptive technology
- Drivers and inhibitors of disruption
- Economic, regulatory and social factors
- Intrinsic and extrinsic factors
- Innovation and business value
- Types of innovation
- Business value through disruption
- Strategies for predicting disruption
- Impact versus adoption
- Peripheral, non-disruptive innovation
- Immature disruptive innovation
- Maturing disruptive technology
- Core, non-disruptive innovation
- Disruption assessment model
- 1. Impact
- 2. Adoption
- Assessing the current potential for disruption
Chapter 3 - NAND Flash storage
- Introduction
- Why is it potentially disruptive?
- Market context
- Market opportunity
- Portable devices
- Data center
- Drivers and inhibitors
- Impact versus adoption assessment
- Impact
- Adoption
- Impact versus adoption assessment chart
Chapter 4 - Infrastructure virtualization
- Introduction
- Why virtualization is potentially disruptive
- Market context
- Market opportunity
- Market drivers
- Carbon footprint
- Overcapacity and IT consolidation
- IT agility
- IT management and staff costs
- Business continuity and agility
- Inhibitors
- Operational and business barriers
- Automation and management challenges
- Lack of interoperability
- Challenges in maximizing benefits
- Vendor landscape
- Open source versus proprietary
- VMware
- Microsoft
- XenSource
- Citrix
- Impact versus adoption assessment
- Impact
- Adoption
- Impact versus adoption assessment chart
Chapter 5 - Cloud computing
- Introduction
- Why is it potentially disruptive?
- Market context
- Market opportunity
- Market drivers
- Services-based approach to IT
- ‘Elasticity'
- Variable costs and usage-based models
- Driving down costs in enterprise IT
- New IT economies
- Inhibitors
- Lack of trust
- Service adoption and management challenges
- Matching optimal delivery models
- Formulating the business case
- Procurement processes
- Migration challenges
- Vendor landscape
- Hardware vendors
- Cloud infrastructure services providers
- Cloud platforms
- SaaS-backed platforms
- Stack platforms
- Stand-alone platforms
- SaaS applications developers
- Impact versus adoption assessment
- Impact
- Adoption
- Impact versus adoption assessment chart
Chapter 6 - Open source communications devices
- Introduction
- Why is it potentially disruptive?
- Market context
- Market opportunity
- Market drivers
- Market inhibitors
- Impact versus adoption assessment
- Impact
- Adoption
- Impact versus adoption assessment chart
Chapter 7 - Index
List of Figures
- Figure 2.1: The evolution of a disruptive technology
- Figure 2.2: Interaction of intrinsic and extrinsic factors for disruption
- Figure 2.3: Disruptive technology and business value
- Figure 2.4: Business value applied to current innovations
- Figure 2.5: Impact versus adoption - the progression of disruptive
innovation
- Figure 2.6: Areas of business value important to organizations - CIO
respondent average ratings
- Figure 2.7: The impact of innovations on enterprises in the next three
years - CIO respondent average ratings
- Figure 2.8: Business areas where there is most room for improvement? (%
CIO respondents)
- Figure 2.9: Technologies that have most transformed organizations in the
last two years - CIO respondent average ratings
- Figure 2.10: How organizations monitor upcoming technologies - CIO
respondent average ratings
- Figure 2.11: Does your organization have a future technology roadmap in
place? (% CIO respondents)
- Figure 2.12: How organizations test upcoming / innovative technologies
before purchase - % respondents
- Figure 3.13: NAND Flash impact score summary
- Figure 3.14: NAND Flash adoption score summary
- Figure 3.15: Impact versus adoption final assessment chart - NAND flash
storage
- Figure 4.16: Data center overcapacity
- Figure 4.17: The most pressing needs for improvement in the IT department
- % CIO respondents
- Figure 4.18: Infrastructure virtualization impact score summary
- Figure 4.19: Infrastructure virtualization adoption score summary
- Figure 4.20: Impact versus adoption final assessment chart -
infrastructure virtualization
- Figure 5.21: Cloud computing overlaps with other technology terms and
trends
- Figure 5.22: Cloud computing as an IT consumption model
- Figure 5.23: Cloud computing - the competitive landscape
- Figure 5.24: The gap between IT capacity and IT demand
- Figure 5.25: Cloud computing impact score summary
- Figure 5.26: Cloud computing adoption score summary
- Figure 5.27: Impact versus adoption final assessment chart - cloud
computing
- Figure 6.28: Global smartphone annual shipments (000s), 2008-2014
- Figure 6.29: Open source communications devices impact score summary
- Figure 6.30: Open source communications adoption score summary
- Figure 6.31: Impact versus adoption final assessment chart - open source
communication devices
List of Tables
- Table 2.1: Examples of disruptive technologies
- Table 2.2: Characteristics of an early-stage disruptive technology
- Table 2.3: Example of drivers and inhibitors of disruption
- Table 2.4: Intrinsic and extrinsic factors for disruptive technologies
- Table 2.5: Different types of innovation
- Table 2.6: Criteria for measuring disruptiveness of innovations
- Table 2.7: Business Insights survey results - where is there most room for
improvement in business areas? (% CIO respondents)
- Table 4.8: Cost savings possible through server consolidation
- Table 6.9: Global smartphone annual shipments by OS (000s), 2008-2014
