McKinsey's Row of Tech Trends That Will Disrupt the Business World

Technology plays an important role in all aspects of life. In the business context, technology can also determine how far a corporation can develop. In order not to lose momentum, business executives need to pay special attention to some of the most influential technology trends going forward. That's roughly the conclusion that can be drawn from recent research by McKinsey & Company.

Of the top 10 trends discussed, 7 of them enter the digital realm. The trends discussed are not only those that have the potential to disrupt many industrial sectors at once, but also those that are classified as niche such as the biotechnology revolution and the advancement of the trend of nanoparticles and nanomaterials.

McKinsey predicts that in the future robotic technology, the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), will digital twinsand Additive Manufacturing (3D or 4D printing) will be combined to shorten routine tasks, improve operational efficiency, and speed up market penetration times. McKinsey describes this trend with the term "next-level process automation and virtualization".

McKinsey estimates that by 2025, more than 50 billion devices will be connected to the IIoT network and generate 79,4 percent of data. zettabytes every year. As context, 1 zettabytes it is equivalent to 1 billion terabyte. Then in 2030, 10% of all manufacturing processes will be replaced by 3D or 4D technology printing.

The next trend is to combine advances in 5G infrastructure with IoT to realize a new range of services and business models. McKinsey found that there are around 1.000 use cases in various industrial sectors that are closely related to this connectivity trend, which is estimated to contribute to GDP figures in 2030 of up to 5-8 trillion US dollars.

Without being surprised, AI is certainly also one of the trends with the biggest implications in the business world. McKinsey even predicts that advances in AI and machine learning will embody the concept of "Software 2.0", the concept in which the developer profession for mobile devices to report the has been replaced by AI. However, in order to maximize the trend automated programming In this case, companies must upgrade their DataOps and MLOps capabilities first.

In the future, the democratization of IT infrastructure will also be accelerated with the increasing adoption of technology cloud computing. According to McKinsey, the adoption rate could increase to close to 50% by 2025, and it is not impossible to break the 80% mark if the current trend continues into the future.

Quantum computing and neuromorphic computing is also expected to continue to increase mainstream. This new generation of computing trends is predicted to answer questions that have not been answered in the world of science so far. The development period for the pharmaceutical and chemical industries will be drastically cut, as will the auto-driving car industry, which will be accelerated. Not only that, next-gen computing is also predicted to disrupt the field cybersecurity significantly.

More details about the most important technology trends in the business world can be read directly at McKinsey site.

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