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McKinsey, one of the biggest management consultant, released a very interesting article Eight business technology trends to watch.

In short, here are the business technology trends to watch:

1. Distributing cocreation. I can say that most international companies has applied this principle for at least a decade.
2. Using consumers as innovators. I think this is pretty new. The emerge of Web 2.0 should be the inspiration of this principle. Question is, how to blend it to standard company? I don’t know the answer… let’s hire McKinsey for this.
3. Tapping into world of talents. Can our business be transformed to use the world talents? And how to attract the world talents? This is interesting. TopCoder is only for programmer and designer, so the other talents are still there, right?
4. Extracting more values from interaction. Seems that Web 2.0 is also the answer for this. And the question is also same, how to apply it to standard and traditional company?
5. Expanding the frontiers of automation. Yeah, I always amazed on how effective automation for both the companies and the consumers. If RFID is popular enough, we’ll see another great move of it to the whole production chain.
6. Unbundling production from delivery. I’m not sure I get this is right, but I guess outsourcing is the same term for it. By separating business process, we can even sell the process to the customer. It’s outrageous move, but I guess services provided by Google and Amazon (AWS) can be considered as example. In a more limited scope, PayPal and DHL can be considered to be moving to this direction.
7. Putting more science into management.
   

   Given the vast resources going into string and processing information today, it’s hard to believe that we only at an early satge in this trend

   I always know this… That’s why I so into data mining and decision support system.

8. Making businesses from information. Well, broker always gets more that than producer. And today, who can deliver the most informative information may be the lottery winner.

I believe the trend should be added by “don’t be evil” principle. With tremendous amount of information, evil is now easier to catch than before.