Trend Opportunity Profile Series—Technology (2nd Edition)

This study presents trend opportunity profiles highlighting emerging trends driven by advanced and futuristic technologies. It explores opportunities across pivotal sectors, including healthcare, aerospace and defense, industrial, mobility, business and financial services, FMCG, energy and environment, security, and retail. The study outlines transformative trends that empower businesses to innovate through modern technologies, offers guidance with illustrative use cases for implementation, and identifies growth opportunities in emerging business models.

The study also discusses innovative and trending technologies, such as haptic technology to augment touch-based end-user experiences, drones for monitoring purposes, and touchless customer experiences for the hospitality industry. Moreover, continuous advancements in AI have led to several innovations, including emphatic AI as virtual agents and sensor-based assessment of basic human behavior patterns powered by AI/ML technology.

This series covers specific opportunities emerging from future trend evolutions designed to help clients discover and prioritize the most consequential medium-to-long-term trends continually transforming their businesses’ growth environment.