Description and Case Study Questions.

Read the article Clouds, big data, and smart assets: Ten tech-enabled business trends to watch written in 2010, available from McKinsey Quarterly. This article includes the authors prediction for the coming years in ten information technology trends. Your task is as follows:

(1) Comment on any one of the ten tech-enabled business trends.

a. Where we are at this time with respect to this trend and the authors prediction;

b. How it may affect U.S. competitiveness economically

c. What it means to U.S. knowledge workers, to you and/or, to an organization with which you have dealings - as you see it.

(2) Which of the trends mentioned in the article, that were just surfacing in 2010, are now gathering greater momentum, and for what reason?