Strategic technology trends you need to know about

Gartner has ranked AI as its most transformative trend for 2019. If you're not already focusing on AI as part of your strategy, now is the time to start. Forget about self-driving cars and Siri for a moment. AI's immediate impact on your business comes from the ability to apply it to countless business processes, across startlingly different areas of workplace operations, from the office to the factory floor. For example, at Cisco we're already using it to optimise our procurement, and through our Mi-Idea innovation centre, we've shown how AI machine vision can verify whether employees are wearing the right safety gear in the industrial workplace.