Leadership Change at IBM? AI Stealing Your Job? Analytics to Slim Down? Nucleus Research Reveals 2018 Technology Predictions

Building on 95 percent accuracy rate, Nucleus identifies 10 trends for 2018

Nucleus Research predicts a number of critical changes for the tech industry in 2018 as the pace of development continues to accelerate. This includes a change in leadership at IBM after 22 consecutive quarters of declining revenue as well as a realignment of the workforce caused by AI and automation, Nucleus forecasts.

“The competition has never been higher as the pace of development is only accelerating. This is bringing longer-term trends to a head, such as displacement of jobs by automation and a renewed focus on work experience, not your GPA. And it’s forcing underperforming companies to make painful changes (looking at you Big Blue!). Conversely, this rapid business cycle is creating tremendous opportunities for agile companies, such as Infor, that can keep pace and deliver value,” said Ian Campbell, CEO of Nucleus Research.

Read Campbell’s blog “Three Reasons Why IBM Needs to Can Ginni Rometty” here

The Top 10 Tech Predictions are based on our research — the numbers that drive business. Nucleus has published more ROI case studies than any other research firm and works closely with vendors and thousands of end-user customers. That customer perspective and numbers-driven approach enables Nucleus to make highly accurate predictions with a success rate of 95 percent over the past 14 years.

The 2018 predictions include:

1. Nobody Believes Your GPA

2. Death of the Employee

3. The IBM Board Wakes Up

4. The Rise of Lightweight Analytics

5. Defining the CRM User

6. Can You Hear Me Now?

7. Watch Infor

8. Sales Funnel Becomes Sales Road

9. Goodbye, Best-of-Breeds

10. Hybrid Wears Out its Welcome

For the full 2018 Technology Predictions report, visit: https://nucleusresearch.com/research/single/2018-top-10-predictions/

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