Introduction #TECHVISION2019 Business leaders looking to do more than just future opportunity. Distributed ledger technology, the low altitudes at which drones fly, partnered with complete their transformations must set new goals in Artificial intelligence, extended Reality, and Microsoft Azure to create a platform that gives state their sights, including: Quantum computing (DARQ) are already having and local authorities authorization, enforcement, and 10 an impact in disparate areas of enterprise. DARQ restriction abilities for drone operation in their areas. • Move your focus to the end. As companies begin technologies will drive the post-digital wave, but The platform also lets companies incorporate to understand instant demand and supply options catching that wave will only be possible with the security and compliance checkpoints into drone- expand, they will have more opportunities than firm foundation of SMAC. Looking even further related workflows. they can pursue. Success will mean carefully down the road? DARQ technologies will enable choosing the specific opportunities companies innovation in such core aspects of the business By positioning themselves as the curators of reality, want to target—and just as important, the ones that they will be foundational for whatever comes companies already have a new level of obligation to not to target—then working backward to after that. society. But being able to deliver for specific and determine how they will get there. constantly changing moments creates challenging As companies move to meet these goals, they must additional questions for businesses that are used to • Define what it means for your business to be post- also accept a new level of responsibility. As one market of many and long-static circumstances. digital as the world moves into a new phase of businesses use technologies to reach further into With limitless opportunities, how do you measure the cooperation. As companies settle on their new people’s lives, shaping the very fabric of reality, they potential impact of products and services on society? goals and the pathways they will take to reach must address the privacy, safety, ethics, and How do you avoid crossing ethical boundaries where them, they must also determine which ecosystem governance questions that come along with that level there are different lines for every reality and moment? partners they need and where their own place in of access. And how does a company responsibly pick the the ecosystem should be. opportunities to target in the first place? When you Look at drone usage, which companies are reach the point of being able to deliver nearly • Master SMAC as a core competency and a incorporating for everything from agricultural anything instantly, it is critical to remember that “can” foundation to rotate to what’s next. When it comes services to public safety, utility monitoring, and doesn’t always mean “should.” to enterprise-level technology strategies, product delivery. They’re even changing what’s companies can never stop moving. Social, possible in healthcare, with Switzerland’s postal It’s every company’s responsibility to understand the mobile, analytics, and cloud (SMAC) combined to service provider using drones to move time-sensitive impact of its moments at scale. drive the biggest enterprise and market lab samples between hospitals and bypass the delays 9 transformations since the dawn of the industrial of ground transport. But this does raise issues of era. At this point, the failure to complete a patient safety, privacy, and data protection that the mastery of SMAC will leave businesses unable to involved organizations must address, as well as serve even the most basic demands of a post- navigating potentially restricted airspace. AirMap, digital world. But success will unlock boundless which operates an airspace management system for 99 TECHNOLOGY VISION 2019 THE POST-DIGITAL ERA IS UPON US