The Habitat of Information: Social and Organizational Consequences of Information Growth
The 8th Social Study of ICT workshop (SSIT8) at LSE
25 April 2008
The Exploding Digital Universe: The Impact on Information Management, the Role of IT, and the Organization
John Gantz
In this talk, IDC's Chief Research Officer will review the findings of IDC's landmark study on the growth of the digital universe – the sizing and forecast, in exabytes, of the total amount of digital content created, captured, and replicated in the world. This growth, which is expected to be unabated for decades as major analog content – voice, film, video, TV – turns digital, will affect not only how companies store, manage, and access information, but also what responsibilities they have for its security and privacy. Mr. Gantz believes that most organizations underestimate both
the scale and speed of the changes this exploding digital universe will bring about. Here is your chance to understand at the micro and macro level the implications the digitization of the world will have on organizations, from the relationship between IT and the business units, to the relationship of organizations to their employees, suppliers, and customers, and the relationship between organizations and governing bodies. As Chief Research Officer and Senior Vice President of IDC, John Gantz has responsibility for IDC’s worldwide demand-side research, global market models, and research quality control and standards. He is also a member of IDC's management committee, chief architect of IDC's Worldwide Digital Marketplace Model (formerly the Worldwide Internet Commerce Market Model, TM,) IT Economic Impact Model, and PC Software Piracy research. He is one of IDC's chief spokespersons on broad technology and market issues at major forums in the United States and around the world. Prior to joining IDC in September 1992, Mr. Gantz was vice president and chief analyst for Dataquest and director of that company's Software Research Group.
Mr. Gantz is a graduate of Dartmouth College, former Navy submarine officer, and co-author of Pirates of the Digital Millennium (Prentice Hall 2005) and The Naked Computer (Morrow, 1983). He has been an IT industry analyst and columnist for more than 30 years. His publications and columns have appeared in Fortune, Forbes, Computerworld, Infoworld, Computer Graphics World, and Industry Week. For the last five years, he has also been a judge of the CIO China awards. Most recently, he has become IDC's chief spokesperson on the issue of digital piracy.
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