HTML5 growth
It’s been around in the consumer space for quite some time, but
businesses have started to truly understand the advantages (and
limitations) of HTML5 in the enterprise. Now that every CIO/CMO/CXO has
been clued into the value of native mobile applications for their
respective workforces, we’re seeing a progression once again toward the
‘write once, play everywhere’ concept, ironically enough.
What Java promised in the mid-1990s, HTML5 may actually be able to
deliver to businesses making new IT investments. Browser acceptance of
new standards such as offline file storage, drag and drop, advanced
drawing tools, and multi-media playback without plugin support augment
what it means to be a website. As these standards have become fleshed
out and implemented across browsers, we’ve seen everything from
cutting-edge line-of-business web applications to firewalled corporate
intranets being deployed with large HTML5 support.
Business gamification
Gamification is a hot topic for multiple reasons. Marketers love it
because it can create stickier customers. Consumers love it because
there are very real rewards that can be gained by getting on
leaderboards. But now, corporate managers are getting into the concept
because it’s beginning to look like a Trojan horse into decreasing the
universal hate for performance evaluations.
By gamifying employee efficiency
and quantifying minute tasks in a business environment, enterprises are
gaining all sorts of new data points around worker productivity. We’ve
seen companies like Spotify implement it in their workplace as primary
mechanisms for employees to complete tasks.
Building integrated systems and software applications that support
gamification actually creates a unique opportunity for enterprises
taking the plunge. It has the potential to re-energize mass workforces
that despise typical employee evaluation techniques. It also has the
unique tech characteristic of being industry agnostic. Creating metrics
to judge employee efficiency and overall contribution to company growth
is a hallmark of big business — and applications that plug into large
ERPs or business operations systems are ripe for gamification to
overthrow normal evaluation methods.
Picture-perfect launches
Every once in a while, tech events escape from the tech world and
transcend into the business world. In 2007, any normal guy on the street
knew about the iPhone. In 2011, Facebook’s IPO was subject to constant
speculation from non-technorati as much as tech elite. In 2013, it was
the very public failure of the federal government’s go-live of
Healthcare.gov.
The government’s ambitious ACA digital emblem suffered from very
severe issues from system lags to downright application failure for
millions of Americans. As far as technology launches go, it was one of
the most public flops to ever occur.
Though it happened outside the private sector, the very public nature
of its execution left a lasting shock on the business community.
Working both inside and outside the health care space, we’ve heard the
worries and apprehensions from CIOs across industries about the go-lives
of their new projects.
Obviously, with the issues that plagued the enormous application,
from a lack of system wide project management to admissions of
inadequate software quality assurance, businesses will undoubtedly be
more focused on what has traditionally been viewed as more of the
‘bookkeeping’ aspect of IT development. In 2014, expect senior
leadership from companies to not take public launches for granted and
really start to emphasize superior project management and software
quality control
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