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:

Featured

• Gamification And Sustainable Behavior Change
• Using Social Collaboration Tools To Promote Peripheral Awareness Between Adjacent Teams 

Articles

Web

• What Enterprises Need to Know: Four Key Questions to Ask about HTML5

Social

• Social Networks: Enabling the Market of Me

Security

• Towards High Performance in Security
• Mounting a Security Offensive to Counter Cyber Threats and Enable High Performance
• The Secure Enterprise Network Consortium: Helping Provide Comprehensive Cybersecurity Approaches for High Performance [PDF, 1257KB]

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

Cloud

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

Biometrics

• Accenture Large-Scale Matching Solution
• Insights into Automated Border Clearance
• Business of Biometrics
• Standing Out from the Cloud
• The Future of Cardholder Verification: Biometrics Key to Security and High Performance

Health Care

• Always On, Always Connected

Retail

• Six Questions Every Retail Executive Should Ask About Cloud Computing [PDF, 960KB]

CIOs

• Why Tomorrow’s CIOs Won’t Care About Downtime [PDF, 491KB]

Millennials

• Accenture Global Research on Millennials' Use of Technology: Jumping the Boundaries of Corporate IT

Banking

• Up Close and Personal: How Banks Can Use Digital Channels to Drive Growth
• Mobile Next Generation Banking
• The Point: Sitting on Top of the World (Competitive and cost advantages of cloud computing for banks)

Thought Leadership

• Accenture Technology Vision 2012 - Emerging Technology Trends for IT Leaders
• Accenture Technology Vision 2011 - The Technology Waves That Are Reshaping the Business Landscape
• Accenture Technology Vision 2010: Everything Elastic [PDF, 350KB]

Outlook Columns

• Making Cross-enterprise Collaboration Work (2012)
• IT and The Strategic Growth Agenda (2012)
• Meeting the Mandate for Global IT (2009)
• Meeting the Mandate for Global IT (2009)
• Does Your Company Have an IT Generation Gap? (2009)
• Model-Centricity: High Performance through Software Engineering (January 2007)
• Can Ultrawideband Deliver on Its Promises? (May 2006)
• Rich Internet Applications: Enabling the Next-Generation Web (September 2006)
• The Power of Predictive Insight (2005)

Outlook: On the Edge Columns by Kishore Swaminathan

• Toasters, Refrigerators and Internet of Things (March 2012)
• Distributed, Decoupled, Analyzed: IT's Next Frontier (March 2012)
• IT 2015 (June 2010)
• On the Edge: Do You Have Executive “Tele” Presence (Feb 2010)
• Everything Elastic (June 2009)
• This Time, It’s Personal . . . and Mobile (January 2009)
• Why Is My CEO Ambivalent About IT? (September 2008)
• Not Your Father’s Collaboration (January 2008)
• Virtual Worlds, Real Business? (September 2007)
• Eight Trends That Are Redefining IT (2007)
• Think the Internet Has Nothing New to Offer? Think Again (2007)

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