Administration of Change: The Obama Impact on Technology Policy |
Just as they played a starring role in President Obama’s election, technology and innovation are expected to remain at the top of the new administration’s agenda — both as a strategic tool to increase government transparency and economic competitiveness, and in the effort to solve the nation’s most pressing problems. Read perspectives from John Hagel III, co-chairman, Deloitte Center for Edge Innovation, Deloitte LLP, and Harry D. Raduege, Jr., chairman, Deloitte Center for Network Innovation, Deloitte LLP, and explore more outlooks, articles and reports from Deloitte below.
Living on the Innovation Edge
John Hagel III, Co-Chairman, Deloitte Center for Edge Innovation, Deloitte LLP
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Edges have always been a seedbed for innovation, but there is something different now. Edges are folding back in on the core much more rapidly than ever before. The innovative campaign and communication strategies utilized by President Obama give us perhaps the most public, impactful examples. And think of the telecom industry — it wasn’t so long ago that wireless networks were a minor edge to the wireline networks. Now, many younger customers only own a cell phone and are somewhat puzzled about why anyone would own a fixed line phone. Voice communication used to be the core of all telecom networks, but now data has become the core of network traffic.
So, there is an even more compelling reason to participate on the edge. If the edge becomes the core, edge advantage soon becomes core advantage. Those who remain focused on the core risk being blindsided by new forms of advantage that emerge first on the edge. To use another meaning of edge, participating successfully on the edge will be essential to developing and sustaining a strategic edge — for the public and private sectors alike.
Cybersecurity Faces a New Dawn
Harry D. Raduege, Jr., Chairman, Deloitte Center for Network Innovation, Deloitte LLP
Over the last few years, we’ve been inundated with bad news about the state of cybersecurity. The list of concerns is growing and endless: rampant cybercrime, increasing identity theft, sophisticated social engineering techniques, relentless intrusions into government networks, and widespread vulnerabilities continuously exploited by a variety of entities ranging from criminal organizations and entrepreneurial hackers to well-resourced espionage actors. We’re also facing the implications of cyberwarfare in light of last year’s cyber attacks against Estonia. In a recent speech on cybersecurity, former U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff warned, “We’ve entered an era of new threats and vulnerabilities,” and the consequences of failure are exponentially greater.
The stark reality is that the bad guys are winning, and our nation is at risk. Given these difficult times, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed and believe the situation is hopeless. However, I believe we’re on the verge of a “new dawn” for cybersecurity and, in the coming months, we will achieve significant progress in securing our critical networks. The Center for Strategic and International Studies Commission on Cybersecurity for the 44 th Presidency recently released its report, which includes 25 recommendations for President Obama to consider, and more importantly, stresses the need for a comprehensive national strategy to secure cyberspace.
The work is just beginning. Improving cybersecurity is not just a project; it is a long-term campaign to defend cyberspace for our nation. We must strive to create a cyberculture where cybersecurity becomes institutionalized and paramount in a rapidly changing information technology environment.
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