Hype Cycles Special Report
The Industry Hype Cycles take a vertical perspective on key emerging technologies and trends in 16 industries. Some topics are industry-specific — for example, reinsurance e-marketplaces for the insurance industry or price optimization for retail — while others show the variation (or commonality) between hype and adoption in an industry compared to the broader IT community, such as the adoption of Web services in each industry. Use these Hype Cycles to keep pace with the technology developments that will most impact your industry.



Automotive Industry  GartnerG2

Developing an individual technology implementation plan is a critical step in addressing specific business objectives in the automotive industry. While all technologies have the potential to improve business processes or even transform the entire industry, automotive companies must have a clear understanding of realistic benefits and relative technology maturity in order to prioritize their investments.

Banking Industry  GartnerG2

Banks worldwide need to boost efficiency while keeping customers happy and costs down. IT firms are talking up a raft of technological innovations, but banks prefer usefulness to hype. Gartner’s in-depth analysis of recent technological trends can help them decide what to use, and when.


Energy Industry  GartnerG2

This Report presents a perspective on emerging technologies that have significant implications for the energy industry, and offers specific recommendations for appropriate adoption strategies.

Government

Cost containment and efficiency are primary drivers in most government IT projects, while many countries are struggling to fulfill their e-government agendas. Consider these emerging technologies that will significantly affect governments' IT use.


Healthcare Payer Industry  GartnerG2

Healthcare stakeholders—consumers, healthcare payers, providers, delivery systems, etc.—need to collaborate and create a more effective environment. Many technologies on the 2004 Hype Cycle will play a significant role in supporting collaboration between key stakeholders.

Healthcare Provider Technologies

The art of medicine has exceeded the cognitive capacity of people. It needs the help of the technologies tracked in our Hype Cycle to improve decisions and collaboration. At last, public policy is coming around to support this opportunity.


Higher Education

After a period of retrenchment during the post-boom budget crunch, higher education is positioned again to make strategic investments in new technologies. The richest area of innovation will be e-learning.

Insurance Industry  GartnerG2

Insurers are transforming their businesses into world-class, operationally excellent, customer-centered institutions, and technology is playing a central role in this transformation. But insurers still struggle with the cultural changes necessary to realize the full potential of these technologies.


Investment Industry  GartnerG2

In making technology investments in the investments sector, the challenge is how to best align developmental IT efforts with business goals. To do so, companies need a framework to link their business strategies and IT efforts in clear and consistent way.

Life Sciences Industry  GartnerG2

This Report presents a perspective on emerging technologies that have significant implications for the life sciences industry, and offers specific recommendations for appropriate adoption strategies.


Manufacturing Industry  GartnerG2

This Report presents a perspective on emerging technologies and technology-driven or -enabled business issues that have significant implications for manufacturers, and offers specific recommendations for appropriate adoption strategies.

Media Industry  GartnerG2

This Report presents the emerging technologies that have significant implications for the media industry, where these technologies are currently in the Gartner Hype Cycle and projections for widespread market adoption.


Retail Industry  GartnerG2

No longer content to be the technology laggard of the past, the retail sector is transforming its approach to and widening its use of technology.

Telecommunication Technologies

Competition for revenue has led the telecom industry to seek new technologies, such as video telephony, and develop new service offerings, such as location "aware" services, while undergoing debt restructuring.


Transportation & Travel

Despite economic turmoil and declining air travel revenue, the transportation industry will continue to introduce important new technologies through 2007, such as RFID, Web cargo portals, online travel shopping services and possibly biometrics.

Utility Technologies

Sustained business challenges are the catalysts for the utility industry's reform and rebirth. This will drive the introduction of new technologies and increase the use of outsourcing during the 2004 through 2007 time frame.





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