What's In Store For Software Development In 2016? Digital technologies have continued to transform businesses at a lightening pace over the past 12 months. From healthcare to automotive, it is software which today makes the difference between a runaway product success, and rapid failure. While software may be “eating the world”, it has also proven it’s ability to eat executives’ jobs, as high-profile failures, from Volkswagen to Target, hit the news over 2015. This webinar will examine what we believe is in store for software development in 2016, and the key dynamics which will change. We will highlight 4 key predictions, and what you can do to prepare for them: Design thinking continues to gain traction and changes the shape of the services industry Testing gets a seat at the executive table Software powers increasingly individual customer journeys Software platforms for the internet of things shifts focus of software product development

1. Predictions 2016:
Cracking Open The
Digital Economy
WEBINAR

2. Charles Green
Director of Thought
Leadership
Panelist
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3. Software may be eating the world, but it is
also eating executives jobs
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4. Prediction No.1
Testing Gets A Seat At The Executive Table
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75% of mobile apps ship with
between 1 and 10 bugs

5. QUESTIONS
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• Elevate the importance of testing within your
organization
• Do business executives understand the importance of
testing (and automation) to your 2016 business agenda?
• Look to automation to handle increasingly complex
testing environment
Prediction No.1
Testing Gets A Seat At The Executive Table
What you should do about it

6. Prediction No.2
Design Thinking Continues To Gain Traction
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92% of enterprise service buyers believe Design
Thinking will have “some” to “significant” impact
on the shift to an “as-a-service economy”
Source: HFS Research

7. Prediction No.2
Design Thinking Continues To Gain Traction
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• Start experimenting with Design Thinking.
• Ask your service provider and partners what they are doing
with Design Thinking, and how they can apply it to your
projects and engagements.
• Proactively look to creating multi-disciplinary teams as you
start your Design Thinking journey
What you should do about it

8. Prediction No.3
Software Powers Increasingly Individual
Customer Journeys
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2016 will be about using the technology we already
have to create delightful and powerful customer
experiences

9. Prediction No.3
Software Powers Increasingly Individual
Customer Journeys
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• Need to redesign the technology and organizational
processes to make the organization laser-focused on the
customer
• Shift from reactive to proactive
• Start by conducting research
• Investment in big data and analytics
What you should do about it

10. Prediction No.4
Software Platforms For The Internet Of Things
Shifts Focus Of Software Product Development
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By 2018 there will be over 22 billion IOT devices, and
over 200,000 IOT apps and services
But the focus will shift away from the number of
connected devices, to how the IOT can create
transformative customer experiences – requiring
powerful software platforms

11. Prediction No.4
Software Platforms For The Internet Of Things
Shifts Focus Of Software Product Development
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• Much of the technology needed is already available
• Shift your budget allocation toward IOT initiatives
• Consider IOT hackathons to see where value can
quickly be created
What you should do about it

12. Concluding remarks
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• As technology becomes ever more embedded in
business processes, so the potential for new business
models and transformation increases
• Continuing shift of budgets from tech to business
stakeholders. 55% of technology spending controlled
by line of business executives

13. Q & A
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14. Charles Green
cgreen@belatrixsf.com
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