Futures

Theme

The theme of the work is:

• perturbations derail big and small companies
• all the past market perturbations in the IT industry have stemmed from technology
• often applied to a new market, it then washes over the existing market and changes it dramatically
• the WWW is the tip of the next iceberg
• the Information Revolution will derail some big companies and many small ones
• because it will change the industry "food chain" - who supplies what and adds value
• there are two or three key technologies which will perturb the market
• ANSA is identifying them and hence the structure of browsers, servers, applets and networks for the year 2000
• ANSA is also studying the revised market "food chain" they will create
• and the opportunities, threats and risks
• and the timescale for these developments entering the marketplace
• finally, these consensus results will be used to focus the workprogramme for ANSA.

Timescale

• First report January 1996
• Second report March 1996
• Third report June 1996
• Fourth report October 1996
• Fifth report January 1997

Contacts

For further details, please contact Mike Eyre (dme@ansa.co.uk) or Andrew Herbert (ajh@ansa.co.uk).

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