Technology Forecast

Technology Forecast of the PwC’ Center for Technology and Innovation is a quarterly publication focusing on the modern trends in information technologies, role they play in business and practical aspects of their application. The American edition is being published since late 1990s and is well known to industry leaders and experts.

The Russian edition of Technology Forecast discusses practical aspects of application of newest IT trends in the context of Russia economic and business reality, from the standpoint of managers working at strategic level and heads of IT. Core content of each Russian issue is comprised of materials from the respective US issue. Essential enhancement to them is articles, commentary and interviews provided by Russian experts and corporate managers.

Transforming collaboration with social tools

Global edition

Technology Forecast: Transforming collaboration with social tools explores how to confront communications overload and boost collaboration potential by making best use of the new powerful social tools. Business is inherently social, which is why collaboration and communications that scale are so fundamental.

Russian supplement

The Russian supplement looks at current opportunities and prospects for applying social technologies in intelligent information processing. It also covers the benefits of corporate social networks in organising team-based work and increasing business process efficiency, as well as in tackling other critical business issues.

Decoding Innovation's DNA

Global edition

Technology Forecast: Decoding Innovation's DNA examines enterprise innovation and the role of information technology. It answers the question, is innovation the result of inscrutable, opaque genius, or can innovation be treated as an end-to-end process subject to performance optimization by adopting proven methods and systems?

Russian supplement

Russian supplement comprises interviews with top managers of the Russian companies leading in the area of innovation process management, and an article prepared by PwC experts.

Unleashing enterprise mobility

Global issue

Enterprises are accustomed to standardising and controlling the mobile devices their employees use for business purposes. But the relationship of mobile devices to enterprises and of mobile devices to employees is undergoing a fundamental transformation due to the rapid innovation in smart hand-helds.
The Technology Forecast global issue Unleashing enterprise mobility examines how the current generation of smart hand-held's implies more opportunities for enterprises than might be obvious at first glance.

Russian supplement

Russian supplement comprises materials about trends and aspects of mobile applications development and use in Russian companies.

• Experience in development of applications for mobile devices, by ABBY, a world’s leader in the segment of text recognition systems,
• View on mobile security issues, by PwC IT experts, and
• Interview with the head of Vympelkom’s department of mobile services for corporate clients.

Technology Forecast 2010 Issue 4

In this issue of the Technology Forecast, we are asking our readers to look beyond all the excitement that cloud computing is creating as a change agent for cheaper and better IT. But how will cloud computing impact the enterprise more broadly? What does cloud computing mean for business strategy and the broader C-suite agenda?

Technology Forecast 2010 Issue 3

This issue of Technology forecast is devoted to Big Data. It features interviews with industry leaders from companies such as the Disney Corporation that are adopting new and innovative ways of managing and retrieving information from an ever-growing flow of raw data. The latest edition also features an interview with Sergey Ryabov, Head of architecture and perspective developments department at Sberbank Russia. Sergey and his team describe how one of the world’s largest banks has taken an innovative approach to working with Big Data.

Technology Forecast 2010 Issue 2

In this issue of the Technology Forecast, we examine the yin yang of structured or repeatable work processes and versatile or variable human processes.

Technology Forecast 2010 Issue 1

The first Russian issue is devoted to modeling and simulation from an architectural and transformation standpoint, and explores how managers can have more of an impact on transformation efforts by anticipating and harnessing the power of complex adaptive system models.