This is a two-part assignment exploring emerging digital technologies in the field of Information Technology and Management and their impacts on businesses. Context: Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) has been a growing, rapid-changing industry in the past couple of decades. Technologies such as Cloud Computing, social media analytics, and machine learning not only have exposed opportunities and challenges to businesses/markets, but they have also created new business models to a degree that they have disrupted existing markets (For instance, see Forbes article). The objective of this assignment is to dive deeper on select emerging technologies and assess their impacts on businesses.

Select two emerging technologies (does not have to be disruptive in nature). Your research results should be in form a white paper (not a research paper) consisting of the following sections with exact titles: 1. Table of Contents (separate page) 2. Top two emerging technologies: in this section, you should briefly introduce the selected technologies and your rationale behind the selection. If you do not provide the rationale/justification behind your selections, you will receive 0 marks for this section. 3. [Technology #1] 3.1. Brief introduction/history (brief!) 3.2. Overview of the technology 3.3. How does it impact businesses? 3.3.1. Opportunities and threats 3.3.2. What businesses are the main target in terms industry, size, and business model 3.3.

Choose one technology from your select tho technologies on which you have focused in part 1 of this assignment. Now, you will dive deeper on the technology and how it would affect a particular company, as described in below scenario.

You are part of a consulting team from DelKP, a consulting firm based in San Francisco. Your firm has recently won a consulting bid to help a newly established healthcare company (ABC) to assess their technology roadmap for the next five years. Your presentation will hugely impact the clients investment in a five-year plan. Locking a longer-term project with the client depends on the quality of your presentation. In other words, DelKP may or may not get involved later in development/implementation of the selected technology depending on your quality of deliverance on the technology roadmap and how well you can engage the client during your presentation.

The clients profile

• Name: ABC
• Business model: providing AI/machine learning capabilities to surgical procedures in hospitals across the West Coast.
• 75 employees: working remotely or in the head office.
• The firm has locked Series A fundings (refer to start-up fundings explain)
• You can make other assumptions about the firm, however, you have to be able to justify your arguments in the presentation based on your assumptions.

USE THE INFORMATION ABOVE. ITS PROVIDED FOR A REASON.

The client expects you to answer the following questions regarding the selected technology. Note that this the first/introductory presentation at the client side following signing the contract and the kick-off meeting. Several high-level decision-makers (including investors) from the client side will be joining your presentations.

• What is the technology? Does the technology directly impact our products and value proposition? Or is it a support technology (e.g., R&D/productivity/support)?
• Why is this particular technology a high priority for us? Why is this a good fit for us?
• How investing this technology is going to help us grow? How implementing/deploying this technology will position us better than the competitions in the market?
• What are the next steps, should we see value in this technology? Provide us a technology roadmap.
• How do you see DelKP helping us choose the right vender for this technology?