TechnoVision 2024: Trends for business decision makers

What is the future of technology? How will technology affect the future of our society? How can businesses drive positive change through technology?

These are the fundamental questions TechnoVision 2024 sets out to answer. As the world experiences breathtaking change, this special edition for business decision-makers examines the technologies that are moving the world and powering digital transformation. It’s designed to stimulate strategic dialogue between business and IT leadership teams, to help them identify opportunities for and support planning for the future in business.

Explore the TechnoVision 2024 Executive Companion that offers an authoritative perspective on which technology trends matter for CXOs and business decision-makers.

The right ‘tech prompts’ to shape the future you want.

Keeping up to date with the future of technology is getting tougher and tougher. TechnoVision 2024 will prompt you to focus on the most opportunity-rich areas of digital innovation, and to build your insight and understanding in technology.

As every business transitions into a technology business (or “Technologyϵ϶Business” as we say in TechnoVision), it’s possible some business leaders may feel outside their comfort zone. But we believe there’s a lot to feel positive about.

The central theme of TechnoVision 2024 is augment ME! Elevate Your Possible, Rediscover Ourselves.

This phrase encapsulates the potential of technology to enhance the way people work and businesses run. And it encourages business leaders to see rapid technical changes and digital innovation as opportunities rather than threats.

Tech trends 2024

Chapter 1 of TechnoVision 2024 explores five prominent technology megatrends that look set to make significant breakthroughs in the near future:

1. Generative AI: Small will be the new big
2. Quantum technology: When cyber meets quantum
3. Semiconductors: Moore’s Law isn’t dead, but it is changing
4. Batteries: The power of new chemistry
5. SpaceTech: Addressing earth’s challenges from outer space

In Chapter 2, we take a deeper look at seven technology “containers” that are found in every business, and offer advice, inspiration, and guidance on how these trends can be applied in business programs, projects, and initiatives:

• You Experience: Delivering immersive and personalized, experiences for customers, employees, and partners.
• We Collaborate: Working together in new, different, and disparate ways across organizations and sectors.
• Thriving on Data: Using data to power superior customer experiences, highly tuned operations, and smarter products and services.
• Process on the Fly: Exploiting intelligent automation and touchless execution to reduce inefficiencies and create value.
• Applications Unleashed: Creating services that are highly accessible both inside and outside the organization.
• Invisible Infostructure: Building an IT infrastructure that’s omnipresent and that self-manages the entire IT estate.
• Balance by Design: Balancing the interests of stakeholders to achieve rewarding outcomes that enrich the entire business.

Technology trends 2024

TechnoVision 2024 offers fresh thinking on the key technology business issues of today, and it should help you design, plan, and get the future your organization wants.

But if we learned one thing this year, it’s that technology trends never stand still. So, to maintain the momentum of TechnoVision 2024, we plan to release a range of Sector Playbooks throughout the year that show the impact of technology business trends and industry-specific opportunities.

For your technology leaders and practitioners

This shorter executive edition of TechnoVision 2024 is supplemented by a wide-ranging CIO report that delves into each container and describes 37 technology trends in detail. Practitioners can use these detailed descriptions to understand how emerging technologies might be applied in their businesses. For more, check out our CIO edition.

Bring TechnoVision to life

As well as a trends report, TechnoVision is an implementation guide that will help business and technology leaders to engage in meaningful dialogue. For more, check out our guide to Applying TechnoVision.