Business Predictions for 2005

1. Voice-Over-Internet Protocol (VOIP) Goes Mainstream.
2. China’s Power and World Economic Influence Grows.
3. Working at Home Goes Mainstream While Small Business Thrives.
4. Offshoring Activity Picks Up.
5. As the World Shrinks, the World Market Expands.
6. Technology Stocks Increase in Value.
7. Cell Phones look more and more like PDAs and vice versa.
8. Blogging and Social Networking Become Accepted Business Tools.
9. Continued Sophistication in Corporate Internet Usage.
10. Enterprises Increasingly Demand Flexible Solutions.

For more information about each prediction, please visit the original article.

In our view, numbers 3, 7, 9 and 10 are interrelated and require increasingly innovative solutions to traditional problems. According to our internet maturity model, these solutions occur in level 4 and 5 maturity – the area we get a kick out of working in!

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