All About the 2024 Gartner Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends

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Earlier this week, on day 1 of Gartner IT Symposium|Xpo in Orlando, Chris Howard , our Global Chief of Research, spoke to a crowd of 9,000+ CIOs and IT executives about the Gartner 2024 Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends.

The 2024 Strategic Tech Trends provide insight into which trends are likely to be most relevant when, so you can prepare to capture their value.?

Big Picture: These strategic technology trends will factor into business and technology decisions over the next three years.

The top ten strategic technology trends for 2024 are:

• AI as partner: AI Trust, Risk and Security Management (AI TRiSM)

Read more about tackling trust, risk and security in AI models.?

• Be safe: Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM)

Read more about continuous threat exposure management.?

• Protect the future: Sustainable Technology

Read more about how to keep AI from doing more climate harm than good.?

Listen: Why All Executives Should Focus on Sustainable Technology to Drive Growth.

• Developer-driven self-service: Platform Engineering

Read more about platform engineering.

• Accelerate creation: AI-Augmented Development

Read more about setting up now for AI to augment software development.

• Tailor your tailor’s work: Industry Cloud Platforms

Read more about industry cloud platforms.

• Optimize decision-making: Intelligent Applications

Read more about the growing demand for intelligent applications powered by AI.

• Power and responsibility: Democratized Generative AI

Read more about how generative AI can democratize access to knowledge and skills.

• Push the pioneers: Augmented Connected Workforce

Watch Think Again: How AI Unlocks Human Potential.

• Buyers with byte(s): Machine Customers

Learn how to prepare for the future of AI-powered customers.

Each of the trends relates to one or more key themes for business: protecting and preserving past and future investments, building the right solutions for the right stakeholders at the right time, and delivering value for the changing environment of both internal and external customers.

Theme 1: Protect Your Investment

To ensure sustained impact from your technology investments, be deliberate, realistic, and forward-looking.

Theme 2: Rise of the Builders

Unleash the creative powers of the communities that build applications and solutions by using technology that fits, developing your roadmap, and working closely with stakeholders.

Theme 3: Deliver the Value

Refine and accelerate how you improve experience for internal and external stakeholders, and expand your options for driving revenue by continuously adjusting, catering to algorithm-based customers and facilitating controlled access.

If we missed you this year in Gold Coast, Orlando, Barcelona, Tokyo, or Kochi for Gartner IT Symposium|Xpo, you can join Gartner expert Bart Willemsen on November 30th for a free live webinar about the 2024 Gartner Top Strategic Technology Trends and how CIOs and IT leaders can use them to ensure future success. You can also register for 2024 Gartner IT Symposium|Xpo.

Ambitious objectives like growing revenue and accelerating digital business demand action even when the future is unclear. Technology is critical to success. Whether you’re a business executive or a technologist, download the eBook for more on:

• How strategic technology trends impact business goals
• What the technologies are and what they do
• What benefits and outcomes they drive
• What early adopters are doing
• Action plans for implementation

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