Ascertaining Business Need for that new Widget by Anticlue

You know that nifty new tool, just around the corner. Maybe it is Surface, a 30-inch tabletop display which is used through a touch or gesture. The tabletop display can recognize more than one touch at a time, enabling multiple users to collaborate and interact. It also has the cool feature to recognize physical objects marked with a special ID tag. So now the mouse and keyboard aren’t apart of the computer interaction experience.

This is revolutionary. Imagine a bed board application right on the table top. User access is determined by their barcode on the badge. Triggers for services are automatic paging to housekeeping. Which in this model is staffed to have a bed cleared within 15 minutes.

Now obviously this is a little to new in the hype cycle to be implemented, but let’s go through the exercise of assessing how this potential technology will be useful to our healthcare facility.

The goal of this exercise is to cut through the hype and understand the purpose, business intent, and goals of the emerging technology. Obviously more detail is needed, and a larger pool of individuals ascertaining impact. However, the point is to relate and describe the process.