Trends Identified
AI is the new UI
                        Artificial intelligence (AI) is about to become a company’s digital spokesperson. Moving beyond a back-end tool for the enterprise, AI is taking on more sophisticated roles within technology interfaces. From autonomous driving vehicles that use computer vision, to live translations made possible by artificial neural networks, AI is making every interface both simple and smart – and setting a high bar for how future interactions will work. It will act as the face of a company’s digital brand and a key differentiator – and become a core competency demanding of C-level investment and strategy.
                        2017
                        Technology vision 2017, amplify you
                        Accenture
                        
                    Ecosystem power plays
                        Companies are increasingly integrating their core business functionalities with third parties and their platforms. But rather than treat them like partnerships of old, forward-thinking leaders leverage these relationships to build their role in new digital ecosystems – instrumental to unlocking their next waves of strategic growth. As they do, they’re designing future value chains that will transform their businesses, products, and even the market itself.
                        2017
                        Technology vision 2017, amplify you
                        Accenture
                        
                    Workforce marketplace
                        The future of work has already arrived, and digital leaders are fundamentally reinventing their workforces. Driven by a surge of on-demand labor platforms and online work management solutions, legacy models and hierarchies are being dissolved and replaced with open talent marketplaces. This resulting on-demand enterprise will be key to the rapid innovation and organizational changes that companies need to transform themselves into truly digital businesses.
                        2017
                        Technology vision 2017, amplify you
                        Accenture
                        
                    Design for humans
                        What if technology adapted to people? The new frontier of digital experiences is technology designed specifically for individual human behavior. Business leaders recognize that as technology shrinks the gap between effective human and machine cooperation, accounting for unique human behavior expands not only the quality of experience, but also the effectiveness of technology solutions. This shift is transforming traditional personalized relationships into something much more valuable: partnerships.
                        2017
                        Technology vision 2017, amplify you
                        Accenture
                        
                    The uncharted
                        Businesses are not just creating new products and services; they’re shaping new digital industries. From technology standards, to ethical norms, to government mandates, in an ecosystem-driven digital economy, one thing is clear: a wide scope of rules still needs to be defined. To fulfil their digital ambitions, companies must take on a leadership role to help shape the new rules of the game. Those who take the lead will find a place at or near the center of their new ecosystem, while those who don’t risk being left behind.
                        2017
                        Technology vision 2017, amplify you
                        Accenture
                        
                    Citizen AI - Raising AI to Benefit Business and Society
                        As artificial intelligence grows in its capabilities—and its impact on people’s lives—businesses must move to “raise” their AIs to act as responsible, productive members of society.
                        2018
                        Accenture Technology vision 2018
                        Accenture
                        
                    Extended Reality  -The End of Distance
                        Virtual and augmented reality technologies are removing the distance to people, information, and experiences, transforming the ways people live and work.
                        2018
                        Accenture Technology vision 2018
                        Accenture
                        
                    Data Veracity- The Importance of Trust
                        By transforming themselves to run on data, businesses have created a new kind of vulnerability: inaccurate, manipulated, and biased data that leads to corrupted business insights, and skewed decisions with a major impact on society.
                        2018
                        Accenture Technology vision 2018
                        Accenture
                        
                    Frictionless Business - Built to Partner at Scale
                        Businesses depend on technology-based partnerships for growth, but their own legacy systems aren’t designed to support partnerships at scale. To fully power the connected Intelligent Enterprise, companies must first re-architect themselves.
                        2018
                        Accenture Technology vision 2018
                        Accenture
                        
                    Internet of thinking- Creating Intelligent Distributed Systems
                        Businesses are making big bets on intelligent environments via robotics, AI and immersive experiences. But to bring these intelligent environments to life, they must extend their infrastructures into the dynamic, real-world environments they want to reach.
                        2018
                        Accenture Technology vision 2018
                        Accenture