The ICT-market as well as all popular management models are constantly impacted by new developments. Often they emerge in interaction with each other. New technology enables a new way of working or doing business. The current hypes in ICT and P&O are Cloud Computing and The New World of Work.

The New World of Work: more than smart travelling, smart working and smart
management.
Without ICT flexible working is not possible. When your organization works with The New World of  Work you get the following advantages: happier employees, less time off due to illness, attractive to young people, easier to stretch availability hours past office hours, less travel costs, less pressure on the environment, lower organisation cost.

Widespread use of flexible working often means another way of working: more task driven,
more  networking, at different times …  This also acquires a new way of  management and an
other toolset to go with it.

Cloud Computing
Cloud Computing isn’t really new technology; it is a type of hosting. What makes it
interesting is the fact that it can be flexibly used through the internet. If all your software
applications would be fit for use on the internet, you could do away with your
own server park.

The advantages are: savings on IT-costs (space, energy, personnel), always sufficient capacity available against the best price, no back-up problems, accessible from every place with an internet connection.