A Visual Canvas for Judging New Technologies, WSO2Con EU 2018
Channel: WSO2
Date: 15/11/2018

In today's fast-paced world, the technology landscape changes rapidly. The agents of these changes are new emerging technologies, which sometimes even create, destroy, or transform segments. In a shifting world, prevailing advantages are fleeting. Organizations that can master change and ride technology waves owns the future.

Not all emerging technologies live up to their promise. Every year, as a part of annual planning, most organizations need to decide relevance, impact, and the probability of success of emerging technologies and pick their bets. Although it is a regular decision there is no widely accepted framework for evaluating emerging technologies.

As a solution to this problem, we present “Emerging Technology Analysis Canvas” (ETAC), a framework to assess an individual emerging technology as a solution to this problem. Inspired by the Business Model Canvas, It represents different aspects of technology visually on a single page. This approach includes a set of questions that probe the technology arranged around a logical narrative. The visual representation is concise, compact, and comprehensible in a glance.