It’s that time of year that the usual happens. Christmas crackers with bad jokes. Holiday specials on TV (constantly). And cyber specialists like me make predictions about the year to come. With the help of insights from Gartner and my own views on what we are likely to see in 2022, I think I can help you with a couple of these. Firstly, it’s worth knowing that Gartner’s predictions come from Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo Americas, which ran virtually in October 2021. Even from the title of the event, you know that attending this event will be like playing “buzz-word bingo”! (When does a conference become a symposium, anyway?)

The key theme of discussion this year was to explore the lessons learned from the ongoing disruption and uncertainty. On their page, Gartner states that they revealed their top strategic predictions for 2022 and beyond. These are:

  • By 2024, 30% of corporate teams will be without a boss due to the self-directed and hybrid nature of work.
  • By 2025, synthetic data will reduce personal customer data collection, avoiding 70% of privacy violation sanctions.
  • By 2024, 80% of CIOs surveyed will list modular business redesign, through composability, as a top 5 reason for accelerated business performance.
  • By 2025, 75% of companies will “break up” with poor-fit customers as the cost of retaining them eclipses good-fit customer acquisition costs. 
  • By 2026, a 30% increase in developer talent across Africa will help transform IT into a world-leading start-up ecosystem, rivaling Asia in venture fund growth.
  • By 2026, non-fungible token (NFT) gamification will propel an enterprise into the top 10 highest-valued companies.
  • By 2027, low orbit satellites will extend internet coverage to an additional billion of the world’s poorest people, raising 50% of them out of poverty.
  • By 2027, a quarter of the (Read more...)