What is
Gartner's Hype Cycle
: The hype cycle is a graphical representation of the life cycle stages a
technology goes through from conception to maturity and widespread adoption.
The hype cycle is a branded tool created by Gartner, an information technology
(IT) research and consultancy company.
Major changes
in the 2015 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies (see Figure 1) include the
placement of autonomous vehicles, which have shifted from pre-peak to peak of
the Hype Cycle. While autonomous vehicles are still embryonic, this movement
still represents a significant advancement, with all major automotive companies
putting autonomous vehicles on their near-term roadmaps. Similarly, the growing
momentum (from post-trigger to pre-peak) in connected-home solutions has
introduced entirely new solutions and platforms enabled by new technology
providers and existing manufacturers.
Digital
Marketing (Stage 4):
The digital marketing stage sees the emergence of the Nexus of Forces (mobile,
social, cloud and information). Enterprises in this stage focus on new and more
sophisticated ways to reach consumers, who are more willing to participate in
marketing efforts to gain greater social connection, or product and service
value. Enterprises that are seeking to reach this stage should consider the
following technologies on the Hype Cycle: Gesture Control, Hybrid Cloud
Computing, Internet of Things (IoT), Machine Learning, People-Literate
Technology, Speech-to-Speech Translation.
Digital
Business (Stage 5):
Digital business is the first post-nexus stage on the roadmap and focuses on
the convergence of people, business and things. The IoT and the concept of
blurring the physical and virtual worlds are strong concepts in this stage.
Physical assets become digitalized and become equal actors in the business
value chain alongside already-digital entities, such as systems and apps.
Enterprises seeking to go past the Nexus of Forces technologies to become a
digital business should look to these additional technologies: 3D Bioprinting
for Life Science R&D, 3D Bioprinting Systems for Organ Transplant, Human
Augmentation, Affective Computing, Augmented Reality, Bioacoustics Sensing,
Biochips, Brain-Computer Interface, Citizen Data Science, Connected Home,
Cryptocurrencies, Cryptocurrency Exchange, Digital Dexterity, Digital Security,
Enterprise 3D Printing, Smart Robots, Smart Advisors, Gesture Control, IoT, IoT
Platform, Machine Learning, Micro Data Centers, Natural-Language Question
Answering, Neurobusiness, People-Literate Technology, Quantum Computing,
Software-Defined Security, Speech-to-Speech Translation, Virtual Reality,
Volumetric and Holographic Displays, and Wearables.
Autonomous
(Stage 6): Autonomous represents the final post-nexus stage. This stage is
defined by an enterprise's ability to leverage technologies that provide
humanlike or human-replacing capabilities. Using autonomous vehicles to move
people or products and using cognitive systems to recommend a potential
structure for an answer to an email, write texts or answer customer questions
are all examples that mark the autonomous stage. Enterprises seeking to reach
this stage to gain competitiveness should consider these technologies on the
Hype Cycle: Autonomous Vehicles, Bioacoustic Sensing, Biochips, Brain-Computer
Interface, Digital Dexterity, Human Augmentation, Machine Learning,
Neurobusiness, People-Literate Technology, Quantum Computing, Smart Advisors,
Smart Dust, Smart Robots, Virtual Personal Assistants, Virtual Reality, and
Volumetric and Holographic Displays.
For More
Refer: http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/3114217
