SFIA Skills: Emerging technology monitoring (EMRG)

Provides emerging technology insight and expertise to contribute to the organisation’s medium and long-term technology strategy.

Creates technology roadmaps which align organisational plans with emerging technology solutions, and gains organisational commitment to their use.

Engages with, and influences, relevant stakeholders to obtain organisational commitment to technology roadmaps. Where appropriate develops business proposals to exploit new and emerging technologies in line with the IT strategy.

Plans and leads the identification and assessment of new and emerging technologies, products, services, methods and techniques and their evaluation in terms of potential impacts, threats and opportunities to the organisation.

Assesses and documents the impacts, threats and opportunities to the organisation of specific technologies, products, services, methods and techniques. Considers their applicability within business and IT strategy, and their potential to influence strategy.