Enterprise Technology By Phil Edholm

I found the recent study IDC IDC did with Nortel sponsorship of the emergence of the Hyperconnected worked to be very interesting, it confirmed what many of us know to be true; we are increasingly living in a Hyperconnected world and are ourselves connected everywhere, all the time.

The following is the link to the white paper and the associated materials, I encourage everyone to take some time to review it. IDC Hyperconnectivity Report The report offers some great insights about how individuals view the emerging transformation. It is based on almost 2,400 interviews globally and is the most comprehensive view I have seen of defining the transformation coming.

What I found very interesting is the fact that of the workers polled, North America (which is dominated by the US in terms of population) had lower levels of Hyperconnected/Increasingly Connected Individuals and lagged in the use of IM/Texting for business, and blogging/wikis/etc. While this may be due to the variance in the types of workers surveyed, I cannot help but come away wondering if it is a true reflection of the state of the technology in the US.

The question is whether the average technology employee in the US, who has become familiar with the last generation of technology, is not adopting the change to the new. At the same time, workers in many other parts of the world, adopting technology for the first time today are leap-frogging to the new technologies. The ultimate question that emerges is; will this will have a significant impact on US productivity gains over the next few years if American companies and workers harness themselves to the last generation of technology/productivity changes while many others jump to the next generation and reap transformational returns?