The strategic underpinnings of most companies’ workforce plans should change dramatically as a result of technological innovation. Digital transformation, the industrial internet, advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, robotics, machine learning, and a plethora of other innovations are fundamentally changing the nature of work.

“E-commerce activities will be replaced with a total integration of online, offline, logistics and data across a single value chain.” – Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba

It won’t be long before our discourse shifts to how IoT can co-exist with users who will soon have an unprecedented degree of oversight when it comes to dictating how their consumer data is captured, used, protected, bought and sold.