The vast majority of respondents (92%) believe that their company is better prepared for a potentially catastrophic outage such as a data breach or natural disaster compared to last year. Of this majority, 65% fully agree that COVID19 has accelerated its preparation
Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Cloud Computing and 5G will be the most important technologies in 2022, according to “The Impact of Technology in 2022 and Beyond: An IEEE Global Study”, a new survey by Global technology leaders from the US, UK, China, India and Brazil The study, which was attended by 350 CTOs, CIOs and CIOs, covers the most important technologies in 2022, the industries most affected by technology in the coming year and technology trends in the next Decade.
The most important technologies, innovation, sustainability and the future
Which technologies will be the most important in 2022? Among the total respondents, more than one in five (21%) said that AI and ML, cloud computing (20%) and 5G (17%) will be the most important technologies in the next year. Of the global pandemic, the technology leaders surveyed said that in 2021 they had accelerated the introduction of cloud computing (60%), AI and ML (51%) and 5G (46%), among other things.
Unsurprisingly, 95% agree, including 66% who totally agree, that AI will drive the bulk of innovation in almost all industrial sectors over the next 1-5 years.
When asked which of the following areas 5G will most benefit in the next year, technology leaders surveyed said:
● telemedicine, including remote surgery and health record transmissions (24%)
● remote learning and education (20%)
● personal and professional day-to-day communications (15%)
● entertainment, sports, and live event streaming (14%)
● manufacturing and assembly (13%)
● transportation and traffic control (7%)
● carbon footprint reduction and energy efficiency (5%)
● farming and agriculture (2%)
In terms of the industries hardest hit by technology in 2022, technology leaders surveyed named manufacturing (25%), financial services (19%), healthcare (16%) and energy (13%). Compared to early 2021, 92% of respondents, including 60% who totally agree, that implementing smart building technologies that benefit sustainability, decarbonization and energy savings has become a priority for your business.
Workplace technologies, Human Resources collaboration and COVID-19
As the impact of COVID19 varies around the world and hybrid work continues, technology leaders almost consistently (97% agree, including 69% totally agree) that their team is working more closely than ever with hiring managers to develop workplace technologies and applications for Implement office records, room usage data and analysis, COVID, and logs on employee health, productivity, engagement and mental health.
Among the challenges that technology leaders see in 2022, maintaining strong cybersecurity for a hybrid workforce of remote and office workers is viewed by respondents as a challenge by 83% of respondents (40% very, 43% little) while managing health and safety protocols. for returning to the office, software, applications and data are rated as difficult by 73% of respondents (29% a lot, 44% somewhat). Determining what technologies their business needs in the post-pandemic future should be difficult for 68% of technology leaders (29% a lot, 39% absolutely). 73% of those surveyed also find it difficult to recruit technicians and fill vacancies in the tech industry in the coming year.
Robots rise over the next decade
Going forward, 81% agree that in the next five years a quarter of their work will be improved by robots, and 77% agree that in the same period of time robots will be implemented across their organization to improve almost all business functions of sales and HR to Marketing and IT Most respondents (78%) agree that robots will improve half or more of their jobs in the next 10 years. According to the survey, these are manufacturing and assembly (33%), hospital and patient care (26%) and exploration of the earth and space (13%).
Connected devices continue to proliferate
As a result of the switch to hybrid work and the pandemic, more than half (51%) of the technology leaders surveyed believe that the number of devices connected to their company that they need to track and manage, such as smartphones, tablets, sensors, robots, vehicles, drones etc. – increased 1.5 times, while 42% of respondents had more than 1.5 times the number of devices.
However, when it comes to managing even more networked devices in 2022, the perspectives of global technology leaders diverge. When asked if the number of devices connected to your company’s business will grow so rapidly and rapidly in 2022 that it will become unmanageable, more than half of technology leaders will disagree (51%) but 49 % agree. These differences can also be seen between regions 78% in India, 64% in Brazil and 63% in the US agree that device growth will be unmanageable, while a large majority in China (87%) and slightly more than half (52%) in the UK disagree.
Cyber and physical security, preparedness and deployment of technologies
The cybersecurity issues most likely to be among the top two tech leaders are mobile and hybrid workforce issues, including employees using their devices (39%) and cloud vulnerability (35%) . Other issues include the vulnerability of data centers (27%), a coordinated attack on their network (26%), and a ransomware attack (25%). Notably, 59% of all tech leaders surveyed are currently using or in the next five years plan to use drones for security, surveillance or threat prevention as part of their business model. However, there are regional disparities. Brazil (78%), China (71%), India (60%) and the United States have the current use of drones for security or the intention to do so in the next five years is the strongest and the U.S. (52%) compared to only (32%) in the U.K. where 48% of respondents say they have no plans to use drones in their business.
An open source distributed database that uses cryptography through a distributed ledger, blockchain enables trust between individuals and third parties. The four uses for the coming year that respondents most likely cited in their three most important uses of blockchain technology are:
● Secure machine to machine interaction in the Internet of Things (IoT) (61%)
● Shipment tracing and contactless digital transactions (51%)
● Keeping health and medical records secure in the cloud (47%)
● Securing connecting parties within a specified ecosystem (47%)
The vast majority of respondents (92%) believe that their company is better prepared for a potentially catastrophic outage, such as a data breach or natural disaster, compared to last year. Of this majority, 65% fully agree that COVID19 has accelerated its preparation.
