Research Agenda

Kaleido Insights specializes in applying a multi-disciplinary methodology for emerging technology impact and opportunity assessment. Our research themes target the areas of greatest technological disruption.

• Digital Trust: How is technology eroding or enhancing our trust among institutions, companies and among citizens in society?
• Health & Wellness: How are technologies transforming traditional healthcare and empowering new forms of human augmentation?
• Ambient Computing: How are technologies digitizing the physical world that we interact with?
• Sustainability: How are technologies driving environmental stewardship and new business opportunities?
• Future of Work: How are technologies impacting organizations and the nature of employment?

 

Research Theme #1: Digital Trust

• Digital Ethics: Decisions of technology application, access, governance, and risk which determine impacts on people, planet, and society.
• Cyber Security & Safety: Protection of digital and physical systems and data, and related risks to human safety, assets, and institutions.
• Digital Identity & Reputation: The digital representation, rights, and reputation of individuals, assets, and events which authorize interactions in a network.

Research Theme #2: Health & Wellness

• Personalized Wellness: The digitization of mind, body, communities, space in which consumer and enterprise technologies are used to monitor or improve wellbeing.
• Health Data Ecosystems: The stewardship, interoperability, and regulation of health and biometric data in marketplaces.
• Precision Healthcare: The customization of traditional healthcare, medical decisions, treatments, practices, and products based on data surrounding an individual patient.

Research Theme #3: Ambient Computing

• Biometric Interfaces: A shared boundary or point of interaction between humans and technology, in which the interface for commands, authentication, and data emissions are biometric-based.
• Networked World: The digitization and interoperability of objects, architecture, cities and interactions using diverse configurations of sensors, servers, cloud services, and evolving IT infrastructure.
• Edge Advancements: A form of distributed computing in which data processing, storage, analytics are handled “local” to where data are generated (device, sensor, chip, implantable, or nanotechnology).

Research Theme #4: Sustainability

• Renewables: Technological advancements supporting the human and commercial use of energy sources which are naturally replenished on a human timescale (sun, wind, rain, heat, waves, etc.).
• Efficiencies & Waste: Technological advancements supporting consumer and industrial energy efficiencies and waste reductions.
• Energy Networks: Emerging network technologies and digital assets used to optimize energy loads, distribution, and access, localize generation, and offset carbon emissions.

Research Theme #5: Future of Work

• Innovation Culture: The mindset and programs required for modern organizations to sustain vitality– to proactively innovate both internally across the organization and externally across partners and ecosystem.
• Distributed Workforces: Diverse types of working environments, talent ecosystems, and on-demand jobs enabled through digital technologies.
• Talent & Automation: Diverse hard and soft skills, new job categories, generational changes, and HR impacts driven by automation.