2024 Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends: Gartner

Democratized generative AI. The confluence of massively pretrained models, cloud computing and open source are making models accessible to works worldwide. By 2026, Gartner predicts that more than 80% of enterprises will have used generative AI models.

Industry cloud platforms. By 2027, Gartner predicts that more than 70% of enterprises will use industry cloud platforms to accelerate business initiatives. 

Platform engineering. The growing discipline of building and operating self-service internal development platforms to optimize productivity and accelerate the delivery of business value.

AI trust, risk and security management. Gartner predicts that by 2026, enterprises that apply these controls will increase the accuracy of their decision making by eliminating up to 80% of faulty information.

AI-augmented development. The use of AI technologies such as generative AI and machine learning will aid software engineers in designing, coding and testing applications.

Intelligent applications. The learned adaptation to respond appropriately and autonomously will be utilized in many use cases to better augment or automate work.

Machine customers. By 2018, 15 billion connected products will exist with the potential to behave as customers.

Augmented-connected workforce. This strategy for optimizing the value derived from human workers will accelerate with 25% of CIOs using the augmented-connected workforce to reduce time to competency by 50% for key roles.

Continuous threat exposure management. By 2027, Gartner predicts that organizations that prioritize security investments based on continuous threats will realize a two-thirds reduction in breaches.

Sustainable technology. Gartner predicts that by 2027, 25% of CIOs will see their personal compensation linked to their sustainable technology impact.