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Ten main key technologies, according to major IT research firms, will conquer worldwide industry in the future years. As a result, all businesses should make sure to include these strategic technologies in their strategic planning to minimize business interruption. All corporate organisations should devote greater resources to learning about these strategic technologies, as they will have a significant impact on the organization's long-term objectives, projects, and activities. Organizations should make enormous efforts to fully utilize these technologies. Among these technologies are:

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Gamification and its Business Implications

In 2002, a British programmer and inventor, Nick Pelling coined the term gamification in which the advent gaming concepts are introduced in real life to achieve better user interface design amongst electronic transactions. Up to the year 2011, the gamification is not popular until Gartner realized the advantages of gamification and introduced the concept into his Hype Cycle list.

Gartner, a  leading IT research organization, has predicted that more than 50 percent of the organization will be replaced with gamification in the future and will be implemented in almost every part of the life cycle.

In recent years, design features captured through gamification has bought notable changes in the field of academia as well as industry. However, due to the dearth in comprehensive understanding and lack of resources has made gamification to fail. 

This limitation is overcome through the latest gaming design strategies comprising simple mechanics such as leaderboards, points, and badges

>Read the complete article: Gamification Tied to Business Needs

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IT research builds and evaluates constructs, models, methods, and instantiations. It also theorizes about these artifacts and attempts to justify these theories. Building and evaluating IT artifacts have design science intent. Theorizing and justifying have natural science intent.

S. T. March and G. F. Smith. Design and natural science research on information technology. Decision Support Systems, 15(4):251–266, 1995.

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IT research is the study of artifacts as they are adapted to their changing environments and to changes in their underlying components

R. Weber, Toward a Theory of Artifacts: A Paradigmatic Base for Information Systems Research, Journal of Information Systems, Vol 1, Spring, 1987, p 3-19. cited in S. T. March and G. F. Smith. Design and natural science research on information technology. Decision Support Systems, 15(4):251–266, 1995.