Good Heavens, I have rarely been subject to such a concentrated dose of PR talk and nonsensical BS in a while.
"The trend toward thinking of staff, or at least managers, as a commodity will begin to slow." No kidding ? Newsflash : it's the employees that get laid off by outsourcing, not the managers. Since when has a manager been a commodity ?
"They must absorb, translate and implement the business vision, but they must also remarket, repackage and promote their work to the business" Water, someone, please !
"The hot skills will be business process modeling, business process languages, codeless development..." Codeless ? Holy cow, now the secretaries will be coders ? Officially ? Yikes !
"Companies will need to drive down operational spending to increase the money to invest in IT transformation." Drive down operational spending . . that means salaries, right ?
"CIOs will rebel against their CFOs and CEOs" I want some of what they're smoking !
"Dual-core servers provide a substantial percentage of performance gains over a single core while consuming less energy and rack space" Possibly true in the server arena, but still, a true 64-bit OS would bring more performance. And that means Linux (maybe) !
"nanotechnology will be put to greater use as a means for authentication" Good Lord where do they dig up these jewels ? Has anyone explained to them that positively ID-ing someone is a tad more difficult than applying a magic word ?
"Someday, companies will no more expect to buy their employees a laptop than they would cars or clothes" Strike that, it's already happening. My company has refused to give me one, saying that the client is supposed to give me the means to work.
"the use of Ajax development techniques can make any browser-based application perform like a client-server or fat client system" And long live the thin client . . again !
"Customers of IT will demand Internet-quality search in the enterprise" does that include the useloss blog sites and pr0n sites as well ? Putting the words "Internet" and "quality" in the same sentence is quite a risk, don't you think ?
I find this article is just a load of CEO-oriented feel-good marketspeak. But of course, we're talking about predictions, not anything that's actually going to happen ;-).
Pascal.