A DESKTOP STUDY OF TRENDS IN COMPUTING AND ASSOCIATED BUSINESS MODELS

摘要

Important changes and developments in the ICT industry affect businesses worldwide. Predominantly, the industry has been undergoing much consolidation and convergence, in addition to the arrival of new business models. Beyond business growth, ICT has been providing opportunities to pursue new technological and business directions. The rise of mobility, social networking, big data analytics and cloud computing are such changes and developments. Cloud computing, the new architecture for delivering ICT services, has proven to foster technological and economic growth, whilst causing markets disruptions across the world through the way ICT is consumed. It is enabling solutions and services with improved efficiency and productivity in many occupation areas like healthcare, education or financial services. This paper provides a review of trends in ICT and includes a survey of industry practitioners with particular emphasis on emerging new business models for services provisioning.