PwC: Mobile Innovations Forecast provides early warnings

By Rob Starr, Content Manager, Big4.com

Based on a four-part framework that spans enabling technologies, new technological capabilities, new use cases and new business models, the PwC MIF is aimed at helping executives understand the evolutionary curve of technology innovation, which can lead to disruptive products that transform entire ecosystems. The new Mobile Innovations Forecast (MIF),  is a new series that provides business leaders with insight and analysis about mobile innovation and the implications to their businesses.

PwC believes that disruptive breakthroughs in mobile have resulted, in part, from the continuous progress of seven enabling components that underlie the power of the mobile device to sense, analyze, store and connect information.  Therefore, the first PwC Mobile Technologies Index provides an overview of the components, and subsequent reports will explore each component in detail.  PwC forecasts a 42 percent combined compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of the Index between 2011 and 2015.

The PwC Mobile Technologies Index is only a starting point for PwC’s ongoing forecasting efforts in mobile innovation.  According to PwC, mobile devices and their supporting services will continue to run applications faster, store more data, create better pictures, and display information in brighter and more compelling images, driven by the seven components of the Mobile Technologies Index.