Written by Accenture's technology leaders, these points of view offer opinions and innovative insights into new technologies that are likely to change how we live and do business in the years ahead. These perspectives also help businesses leverage the wealth of new opportunities generated by emerging technologies to reach new heights of performance.

Learn more about our perspectives on the intersection of business and technology innovation:

Articles

Relationships at Scale

• Making Business Sense of 3D Printing

Social

Social Commerce: Drive Sales Through Social Networking

• Influence at Scale: How Companies Can Harness the Power of Social Networks
• Contextual Retail: Insight at the Point of Action
• The New Rules of Social Commerce
• Social Networks: Enabling the Market of Me

Collaboration

• Using Social Collaboration Tools To Promote Peripheral Awareness Between Adjacent Teams
• Making Collaboration Technology Work for the Enterprise: A Process-Oriented Perspective
• Analyzing Collaboration Challenges
• The Ingredients of Effective Collaboration Solutions
• Integrating Collaboration Technology Deeply Into Business Process and Applications
• Technology for Supporting Collaboration Across Enterprise Boundaries
• Making Cross-enterprise Collaboration Work (2012)

Cloud

• Taming the Wild West: How to Build a Strong Cloud Security Strategy 

Identity R&D Group

• Beating the Biometric Fraudsters
• Standing out from the Crowd
• The Future of Identity
• Insight into Automated Border Clearance

Technology Vision

• Accenture Technology Vision 2012 - Emerging Technology Trends for IT Leaders
• Business Implications of Technology Trends: Data Culture
• Business Implications of Technology Trends: Privacy Economy
• Technology Vision 2012: What it means for Social Commerce
• Technology Vision 2012: What it means for Banking?
• Technology Vision 2102: Consumer Packaged Goods
• Technology Vision 2012: What it means for Insurance?
• Technology Vision 2012: Life Sciences
• Technology Vision 2012: What it means for the Communications Industry?
• Technology Vision 2012: What It Means for Energy?

Outlook: On the Edge Columns by Kishore Swaminathan

• Why Media Tablets will Transform Education (June 2012)
• Toasters, Refrigerators and Internet of Things (March 2012)
• Distributed, Decoupled, Analyzed: IT's Next Frontier (March 2012)

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