Industries

The year 2023 will begin with three disruptive forces already playing out. The first is inflationary pressure on wages. The global labor market is expected to remain tight due to aging workforces and stringent immigration policies. The COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on labor force turnover rates will keep price inflation higher than pre-pandemic l...

The climate emergency and the intrinsic link between resources and energy in the circular economy escalated in 2022 because of geopolitical chaos. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine fueled a rapid increase in energy prices and supply chain disruptions, which has led to collaboration across key industry verticals to develop innovative technologies and s...

Frost & Sullivan’s Nutrition & Wellness program area tracks the ingredients and related technologies associated with agriculture, personal health, and well-being. These ingredients include agrochemicals, food additives, human and animal nutrition ingredients, and functional and active ingredients for personal care and home care applications. T...

Personal protective equipment (PPE) has become the main talking point due to the COVID-19 pandemic, as the pandemic radically shifted the focus of PPE's manufacturing, procuring, and use. Today, as the PPE industry struggles with pricing pressures, growing inflation, and global economic uncertainties, winners will offer strategic product differe...

Frost & Sullivan’s mobility team tracks the global off-highway (OHW) equipment industry, providing deep-dive analysis of the shift toward equipment-as-a-service models and the implications of new technologies on the transportation landscape of the future.The OHW practice evaluates applications in the construction, mining, agriculture, forestry, a...

Some fifteen years after the cloud burst into our consciousness, enterprises are no longer exploring the model, but honing it. In 2023, the focus will be on optimizing complex hybrid, multicloud environments—for cost, app performance, and flexibility. Increasingly important use cases, leveraging Internet of Things (IoT) and artificial intelligenc...

Abrupt, massive and disruptive changes of the past several years have pushed cloud communications services and intelligent devices to the forefront. Globalization, evolving workforce demographics, rapidly shifting customer requirements, and technology advancements are transforming how and where work is performed. Unified communications and collabor...

Data centers are the backbone of the digital economy. In today’s connected world, enterprises and governments rely heavily on best-in-class data centers and digital infrastructure. However, enterprises are increasingly outsourcing their data operations to third-party data center colocation service providers. With hyperscale demand driving grow...

An increasing focus on biologics, genomics, and multi-omics; the adoption of digital technologies; and a shift to patient-centric models are transforming the life sciences industry. At the same time, the emergence of value-based models, R&D activities to treat complex diseases, and healthcare consumerism provide an impetus to precision medicine. Wi...