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Top 10 Strategic Technology: Source<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Artificial intelligence, immersive experiences, digital twins, event-thinking and continuous adaptive security create a foundation for the next generation of digital business models and ecosystems.<\/h3>\n

How do designers make cars safer? They treat them like a school of fish. Safe Swarm, recently unveiled by Honda, uses vehicle-to-vehicle communication to allow cars to pass information on to other cars in the vicinity. For example, alerts about an accident miles up the road could be relayed to cars miles back, enabling them to operate collaboratively and intelligently to avoid accidents and mitigate traffic.<\/p>\n

The evolution of intelligent things, such as collective thinking car swarms, is one of 10 strategic trends with broad industry impact and significant potential for disruption.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe continuing digital business evolution exploits new digital models to align more closely the physical and digital worlds for employees, partners and customers,\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

says David Cearley, vice president and Gartner Fellow, at Gartner 2017 Symposium\/ITxpo in Orlando, Florida.<\/p>\n

\u201cTechnology will be embedded in everything in the digital business of the future.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Intelligent Digital Mesh<\/h3>\n

Gartner calls the entwining of people, devices, content and services the intelligent digital mesh. It\u2019s enabled by digital models, business platforms and a rich, intelligent set of services to support digital business.<\/p>\n

Intelligent<\/strong>: How AI is seeping into virtually every technology and with a defined, well-scoped focus can allow more dynamic, flexible and potentially autonomous systems.<\/p>\n

Digital<\/strong>: Blending the virtual and real worlds to create an immersive digitally enhanced and connected environment.<\/p>\n

Mesh<\/strong>: The connections between an expanding set of people, business, devices, content and services to deliver digital outcomes.<\/p>\n

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Intelligent<\/h3>\n

Trend No. 1: AI Foundation<\/h4>\n

The ability to use AI to enhance decision making, reinvent business models and ecosystems, and remake the customer experience will drive the payoff for digital initiatives through 2025.<\/p>\n

Given the steady increase in inquiry calls, it\u2019s clear that interest is growing. A recent Gartner survey showed that 59% of organizations are still gathering information to build their AI strategies, while the remainder have already made progress in piloting or adopting AI solutions.<\/p>\n

Although using AI correctly will result in a big digital business payoff, the promise (and pitfalls) of general AI where systems magically perform any intellectual task that a human can do and dynamically learn much as humans do is speculative at best. Narrow AI, consisting of highly scoped machine-learning solutions that target a specific task (such as understanding language or driving a vehicle in a controlled environment) with algorithms chosen that are optimized for that task, is where the action is today. \u201cEnterprises should focus on business results enabled by applications that exploit narrow AI technologies and leave general AI to the researchers and science fiction writers,\u201d says Cearley.<\/p>\n

Trend No. 2: Intelligent Apps and Analytics<\/h4>\n

Over the next few years every app, application and service will incorporate AI at some level. AI will run unobtrusively in the background of many familiar application categories while giving rise to entirely new ones. AI has become the next major battleground in a wide range of software and service markets, including aspects of ERP. \u201cChallenge your packaged software and service providers to outline how they\u2019ll be using AI to add business value in new versions in the form of advanced analytics, intelligent processes and advanced user experiences,\u201d notes Cearley.<\/p>\n

Intelligent apps also create a new intelligent intermediary layer between people and systems and have the potential to transform the nature of work and the structure of the workplace, as seen in virtual customer assistants and enterprise advisors and assistants.<\/p>\n

\u201cExplore intelligent apps as a way of augmenting human activity, and not simply as a way of replacing people,\u201d says Cearley. Augmented analytics is a particularly strategic growing area that uses machine learning for automating data preparation, insight discovery and insight sharing for a broad range of business users, operational workers and citizen data scientists.<\/p>\n

Trend No. 3: Intelligent Things<\/h4>\n

Intelligent things use AI and machine learning to interact in a more intelligent way with people and surroundings. Some intelligent things wouldn\u2019t exist without AI, but others are existing things (i.e., a camera) that AI makes intelligent (i.e., a smart camera.) These things operate semiautonomously or autonomously in an unsupervised environment for a set amount of time to complete a particular task. Examples include a self-directing vacuum or autonomous farming vehicle. As the technology develops, AI and machine learning will increasingly appear in a variety of objects ranging from smart healthcare equipment to autonomous harvesting robots for farms.<\/p>\n

As intelligent things proliferate, expect a shift from stand-alone intelligent things to a swarm of collaborative intelligent things. In this model, multiple devices will work together, either independently or with human input. The leading edge of this area is being used by the military, which is studying the use of drone swarms to attack or defend military targets. It\u2019s evident in the consumer world in the opening example showcased at CES, the consumer electronics event.<\/p>\n