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Technological and digital trends are transforming the oil and gas industry. Main players commonly choose operational technologies (OTs) to carry out the automation of their oil and gas processes; however, newer technologies, such as AI, IoT, and robotics are starting to gain more relevance in the industry. Oil and gas companies have adopted automat...

The increase in global internet users, internet traffic, active social media users, and unique mobile phone users is driving digital content growth. In 2023, the industry grew in new global internet users, new active social media users, and unique mobile phone users. By the end of 2023, around two-thirds of the world s population is estimated to be...

Mega Trends 2040 renders a futuristic and comprehensive analysis of the transformative, global forces that define the future world, with their far-reaching impact on businesses, economics, cultures, and personal lives. As we look to 2040, we see 23 transformational themes emerging from our universe of 5 Mega Trends which will help the forward think...

The trend opportunity profile series covers specific opportunities emerging from evolving and future trends. It helps clients discover and prioritize the most consequential medium-to-long-term trends that are actively transforming their businesses growth environment. These trend opportunity profiles cover 11 key industries: aerospace and defense; ...

Decarbonization, digital transformation, and technology innovation have accelerated significantly in the past five years. The global energy industry is experiencing an unprecedented transition, and this change is bringing exciting new growth opportunities to the oil and gas (O&G) sector. Digital technology and new business models are driving the...

Direct air carbon capture (DACC) is a negative-emission carbon dioxide reduction technology that directly captures CO2 from the air with solid or liquid adsorbents/solvents and then uses a heat source to desorb the CO2. It is a rapidly emerging and dynamic segment of the carbon capture, utilization, and storage industry. DACC is still in the e...

In 2024, the life science (LS) industry s focus on precision health will intensify. LS companies will augment their omics-based research capabilities and increasingly deploy AI and bioinformatics to discover personalized therapies. Partnerships between pharmaceutical companies and technology vendors will multiply, to support innovation in drug disc...

The Customer Experience industry benefitted greatly from the COVID-19 pandemic, which shifted millions of agents to work-at-home (WAH) models and accelerated cloud contact center-as-a-service (CCaaS) adoption. In 2021 and 2022, investments soared; however, in 2023 global economic and political unrest created a more conservative and focused approach...

As organizations around the world continue to look for ways to decarbonize their operations, commercial heat pumps will witness growing adoption. This market is largely driven by government support measures to install, retrofit, and replace heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems with efficient heat pump systems. Heat pumps are a ...