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CIOS MUST FIND THE IT FORCE MULTIPLIERS TO ENABLE GROWTH AND INNOVATION , AND CREATE SCALABLE , RESILIENT
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Every month , we pose industry experts a question pertinent to the issues of the day . This month . . . .
ARTNER HAS ANNOUNCED
G the top strategic technology trends that organisations need to explore in 2022 . Analysts presented their findings during Gartner IT Symposium / Xpo Americas .
“ With CEOs and boards striving to find growth through direct digital connections with customers , CIOs ’ priorities must reflect the same business imperatives , which run through each of Gartner ’ s top strategic tech trends for 2022 ,” said David Groombridge , Research Vice President at Gartner . “ CIOs must find the IT force multipliers to enable growth and innovation , and create scalable , resilient technical foundations whose scalability will free cash for digital investments . These imperatives form the three themes of this year ’ s trends : engineering trust , sculpting change and accelerating growth .” The top strategic technology trends for 2022 are :
• Generative Artificial Intelligence ( AI ): can be used for a range of activities such as creating software code , facilitating drug development and targeted marketing , but also misused for scams , fraud , political disinformation , forged identities and more .
• Data fabric : can simplify an organisation ’ s data integration infrastructure and create a scalable architecture that reduces the technical debt seen in most D & A teams due to rising integration challenges .
• Distributed enterprise : with the rise in remote and hybrid working patterns , traditional office-centric organisations are evolving into distributed enterprises comprised of geographically dispersed workers .
• Cloud-native platforms ( CNPs ): uses the core capabilities of cloud computing to provide scalable and elastic IT-related capabilities ‘ as-a-service ’ to technology
WHICH TECHNOLOGIES SHOULD SMES BE PRIORITISING AS THEY PLAN THEIR STRATEGIES FOR THE COMING YEAR ?
creators using Internet technologies , delivering faster time to value and reduced costs .
• Autonomic systems : self-managing physical or software systems that learn from their environments .
• Decision Intelligence ( DI ): a practical discipline used to improve decision making by explicitly understanding and engineering how decisions are made , and outcomes evaluated , managed and improved by feedback .
• Composable applications : empowers adaptability .
• Hyperautomation : enables accelerated growth and business resilience by rapidly identifying , vetting and automating as many processes as possible .
• Privacy-enhancing computation ( PEC ): protects personal and sensitive information at a data , software or hardware level – securely share , pool and analyse data without compromising confidentiality or privacy .
• Cybersecurity mesh : Cybersecurity Mesh Architecture helps provide an integrated security structure and posture to secure all assets , regardless of location .
• AI engineering : an integrated approach for operationalising AI models .
• Total experience ( TX ): a business strategy that combines the disciplines of customer experience ( CX ), employee experience ( EX ), user experience ( UX ) and multiexperience ( MX ).
This year ’ s top strategic technology trends highlight those trends that will drive significant disruption and opportunity over the next five to 10 years .
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