Previous LEF Reports
The Future of Healthcare
The Health system is strained by a growing aging population, a shortage of care providers, more people suffering from chronic conditions, fragmented care management and rising costs. In this report, CSC's Leading Edge Forum (LEF) takes a holistic view of healthcare, putting the patient at the center, and identifies five trends that will re-shape the industry.
Cloud rEvolution explores cloud opportunities, potential issues, processing considerations, and next steps an organization can take to start using the cloud.
Volume 1: Cloud rEvolution: Laying the Foundation (PDF 5.62MB)
Volume 2: Cloud rEvolution: The Art of Abstraction (PDF 7.39MB)
Volume 3: Cloud rEvolution: The Cloud Effect (PDF 9.76MB)
Volume 4: Cloud rEvolution: A Workbook for Cloud Computing in the Enterprise (PDF 3.18MB)
Digital Disruptions
Digital Disruptions: Technology Innovations Powering 21st Century Business (PDF 7.21MB) identifies seven disruptions companies need to prepare for: new media, augmented reality, social power, information transparency, digital spectrum, new platforms and a smart(er) world. These disruptions represent a wholesale change to business practices and a wealth of opportunities for innovation. Forewarned is forearmed; read the report and don't be caught unprepared. Also, read the executive summary (PDF 314KB).
Digital Trust
Digital Trust examines IT security as a technology strategy that plays both offense and defense, recognizing enhanced business value and cost savings, while minimizing information risk exposure. The Digital Trust report features eight volumes covering six key areas: identity management, intellectual property protection, compliance management, liquid security, ethreats and countermeasures, and transparency and assurance.
Digital Trust Adjuncts
"Digital Trust in the Cloud" (PDF 957KB) - Examines security and trust in cloud computing; presages the LEF's upcoming Cloud rEvolution report series.
"Digital Trust for Life" (PDF 971KB) - Targets the life and annuity (insurance) industry
Digital Trust report series:
- Volume 8: "Digital Trust: Epilogue and Strategic Roadmap" (PDF 4.30MB)
- Volume 7: "Transparency and Assurance: Putting a Measure on Digital Trust" (PDF 3.86MB)
- Volume 6: "eThreats and Countermeasures: Just When You Thought It Was Safe to Go Out" (PDF 3.06MB)
- Volume 5: "Liquid Security: Digital Trust When Time, Place and Platform Don't Matter" (PDF 2.93MB)
- Volume 4: "Compliance Management: The Business of Keeping the Business in Business" (PDF 2.64MB)
- Volume 3: "Intellectual Property Protection: Minding Your Mind Power" (PDF 2.49MB)
- Volume 2: "Identity Management: Digitizing Your DNA" (PDF 5.61MB)
- Volume 1: "Digital Trust: Shaking Hands with the Digital Enterprise" (PDF 5.89MB)
Connected World
Connected World - Redefining the geography of business and how we work and play (PDF 9.86MB) examines eight connectedness trends supercharging business opportunity. The report helps organizations understand connected world technologies and business changes and how they might apply in their industry. The report also provides a roadmap for assessing an organization's business connectedness.
Extreme Data
Extreme Data: Rethinking the "I" in IT (PDF 3.25MB) report explores four dimensions of extreme data-data everywhere, time and place, social connections and meaning-and urges organizations to leverage the opportunities presented by extreme data.
Open Source: Open for Business
Open Source: Open for Business (PDF 7.51MB) examines 10 trends defining the open source movement, the legal and business issues, and recommendations for getting started on an open source journey.
The Architecture rEvolution: Exploring the Network Effect on Infrastructure, Applications and Business Process
The Architecture rEvolution: Exploring the Network Effect on Infrastructure, Applications and Business Process (PDF 6.97MB) explores the three levels of the Architecture rEvolution, examining each level's array of drivers, strategies, technologies and standards.