Architecting the enterprise to leverage a confluence of emerging technologies

The simultaneous widespread and rapid adoption of a number of emerging technologies including low-cost sensing, mobile devices, social and cloud computing, and especially big data analytics is leading up to a perfect storm which will transform our conception of society and organizations. When acting in isolation, each of these technologies is already radically changing our lives and reshaping many industries. When deployed together as elements of a coherent strategy, the impact could be even more farreaching. Yet, there is no conceptual framework for developing such strategies. In this paper, we explore some avenues for formulating such a framework.