A Moment Full of Potential and Promise, Enabled by Analytics

The disruption of 2020 fueled an eye-opening acceleration of analytics advances and adoption, with many observers suggesting that the worlds of IT and business alike packed years’ worth of planned strategies into a matter of months. While it will take time to understand the full impact of this accelerated evolution, it is almost certain to speed the progress of trends that are just now emerging.

For all these reasons, this year’s edition of Accenture’s annual Technology Vision report is particularly exciting. Together, these trends are poised to take hold quickly, leaving real digital transformation in their wake. Data—lots of it—plays a huge role in each one. Advanced analytics and AI tools are among the most important assets an organization can have in place to understand the scale of all this data and put it to work in ways that create real, measurable value. Imagine any or all of the four trends below at work, at scale, in your organization, and their cumulative impact comes into focus.