Gartner identifies the top strategic technology trends for 2022

Generative AI, distributed enterprise and cloud-native platforms are amongst the top strategic technology trends for 2022, Gartner has predicted. David Groombridge, research vice president at Gartner, says with CEOs and boards striving to find growth through direct digital connections with customers, the priorities of a CIO must reflect the same business imperatives, which run through each of Gartner's top strategic tech trends for 2022. "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," Groombridge says. "These imperatives form the three themes of this year's trends: engineering trust, sculpting change and accelerating growth." Gartner says one of the most visible and powerful AI techniques coming to market is generative AI – machine learning methods that learn about content or objects from their data, and use it to generate brand-new, completely original, realistic artefacts.