With CEOs striving to find growth through direct digital connections with customers, CIOs' priorities must reflect the same business imperatives, which run through each of the top strategic tech trends for 2022. The increasing speed of technology change has created tremendous opportunities (and pressure) for IT leaders to align with business priorities. CIOs need to find the IT force multipliers to enable growth and innovation, and create scalable, resilient technical foundations whose scalability will free cash for digital investments. These imperatives form the three themes of this year's trends: engineering trust, sculpting change and accelerating growth. One of the most visible and powerful AI methods on the market is a generative AI – machine learning methods that learn content or objects from their data, and use them to produce brand new, completely real, realistic objects.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has enormous potential for making the world a better place to live. AI has an unquestionable impact on the global industry, despite its arguable benefits and drawbacks. Every day, it grows, ensuring the long-term viability of businesses. To succeed in many new-age jobs, AI literacy and up skilling are certainly required. Artificial intelligence has drastically transformed the way numerous sectors operate.

Every year the Gartner Group releases their list of top strategic technology trends. The three themes for 2022 are "engineering trust," "sculpting change" and "accelerating growth." At the outset one must be impressed with how Gartner neologizes so creatively year after year. But are the trends really new or just renamed old ones? And are they all just aspirations?

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.

The automation of business processes was already in a state of increasing adoption long before the pandemic began. However, the rapid shift to remote work coupled with COVID-19's economic impact has kicked automation into high gear. Organizations are seeking to improve efficiency and reduce cost by reducing employees' time spent on manual tasks. Robotic Process Automation (RPA) platforms have traditionally driven this transformation, but with the increased demand for a variety of use cases, many organizations are finding RPA tools inadequate. And they're wanting to add more intelligence to automation.

Gartner's list of the most comprehensive trends that CIOs and other senior executives should be paying attention to for 2021 includes "people-centricity," location independence, and resilient delivery. At its IT Symposium/Xpo conference every year, Gartner produces one of the most comprehensive lists of the trends that CIOs and other senior executives should be paying attention to. This year, Gartner vice president Brian Burke presented the Top 10 strategic technology trends for 2021, grouping the main trends into "people centricity," "location independence," and "resilient delivery." People centricity carries over from last year's list but you can certainly see the increased emphasis on location independence and resilient delivery as a reaction to the pandemic, something no one saw a year ago. Burke said 2020 has seen huge upheaval driven by of the pandemic and its related economic impacts, and this sets the stage for a major change in the IT landscape.

Companies need to focus on architecting resilience and accept that disruptive change is the norm, says research firm Gartner, which unveiled its annual look at the top strategic technology trends that organizations need to prepare for in the coming year. Gartner unveiled this year's list at its flagship IT Symposium/Xpo Americas conference, which is being held virtually this year. At the outset of the symposium, it's clear Gartner is expecting human and technology interactions will continue to challenge IT executives as companies weather the COVID-19 upheaval and current economic challenges. "The need for operational resiliency across enterprise functions has never been greater," said Brian Burke, research vice president at Gartner. "As organizations journey from responding to the COVID-19 crisis to driving growth, they must focus on the three main areas that form the themes of this year's trends: people centricity, location independence and resilient delivery," Burke said.

Gartner, Inc. today highlighted the top strategic technology trends that organizations need to explore in 2020. Analysts presented their findings during Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo, which is taking place here through Thursday. Gartner defines a strategic technology trend as one with substantial disruptive potential that is beginning to break out of an emerging state into broader impact and use, or which is rapidly growing with a high degree of volatility reaching tipping points over the next five years. "People-centric smart spaces are the structure used to organize and evaluate the primary impact of the Gartner top strategic technology trends for 2020," said David Cearley, vice president and Gartner Fellow. "Putting people at the center of your technology strategy highlights one of the most important aspects of technology -- how it impacts customers, employees, business partners, society or other key constituencies. Arguably all actions of the organization can be attributed to how it impacts these individuals and groups either directly or indirectly. This is a people-centric approach."