10 strategic technologies your company needs to seriously consider investing in

Business is war. And as is this case with most wars, there are arms races: in strategy, advertising and perhaps most importantly, technology.

The technologies that can make a big impact on business tend to bring with them a high potential for disruption to IT or the business, the need for a major investment, or the risk of being late to adopt.

Those qualities can come from an existing technology reaching maturity, an emerging technology that could give early adopters a distinct advantage, or one that has potential for significant market disruption in the next five years.

Tech research company Gartner reckons it has come up with an accurate shortlist of 10 technologies that will completely change the way we do business in the next few years. All of the technologies come from its Nexus of converging forces — social, mobile, cloud and information.

"This does not necessarily mean organisations should adopt and invest in all of the listed technologies; however companies need to be making deliberate decisions about how they fit with their expected needs in the near future."

By Nur Bremmen

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