Four interconnected tech trends shaping the future of IT
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1. Innovation at the edge
2. A perpetual- learning culture
3. IT as a service
4. Expanded trust boundaries
1: Innovation at the edge
Innovation develops around personal networks of experts at the porous edge of the organization and is supported by capabilities that scale the benefits across the business.
Shift:
Technologies promise access to virtually unlimited compute power and massive data sets, as well as a huge leap in bandwidth at low cost, making it cheaper and easier to test, launch, and scale new innovations quickly.
Trend:
2.8×
global data creation from 2020-2025
30%
CAGR for low-code development platform market through 2030
50%
of user touches augmented by AI-driven speech, written word, or computer-vision algorithms by 2024
Tech literacy becomes core to every role, requiring learning to be continuous and built around an ecosystem of skills that are deployed at the point of need.
Shift:
The incredible proliferation of technologies—and the speed of that proliferation—continually forces companies to evaluate and understand how to use them effectively.
Trend:
50 billion
devices connected to the Industrial IoT by 2025
70%
of manufacturers will be using digital twins
$800 billion
global metaverse revenue opportunity by 2024
2. A perpetual-learning culture
The premium will now be on IT’s ability to enable innovation, requiring a shift in its traditional role as protector of big tech assets to a purveyor of small blocks of code.
Shift:
The massive growth of capabilities, tools, and reusable code creates a “service economy” for technology.
Trend:
>2×
growth in software sourced from cloud-service platforms, open source, and SaaS
70%
of manufacturers will be using digital twins
$800 billion
global metaverse revenue opportunity by 2024
3. IT as a service
Coupled with increasing levels of distrust in the broader populace, these trends are contributing to profound unease in the relationship between technology and consumers of technology. IT must broaden its trust capabilities around security, privacy, and cyber.
Shift:
Enormous shifts in technology power and capacity will create many more touchpoints with customers and an exponential wave of new data. At the same time, consumers are becoming more aware of their identity rights.
Trend:
100%
of biometrics-capable devices will be using biometrics for transactions by 2022
50×
improvement in facial-identification algorithms since 2014
$800 billion
global metaverse revenue opportunity by 2024
4. Expanded trust boundaries
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90%
of developers are using APIs
200 million
code repositories in GitHub
2/3
of Americans are very or extremely concerned about hacking