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Forrester To Unveil Its 2024 Tech Leadership Predictions At Technology & Innovation North America
Enterprise AI initiatives will boost IT organizations’ productivity and creative problem-solving by 50% in the year ahead AUSTIN, Texas & CAMBRIDGE,
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nEnterprise AI initiatives will boost IT organizations’ productivity and creative problem-solving by 50% in the year ahead\n\n\n AUSTIN, Texas & CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nAccording to Forrester’s (Nasdaq: FORR) 2024 Tech Leadership Predictions, which will be unveiled at Technology & Innovation North America next week, 87% of US enterprise technology leaders anticipate increasing their organizations’ technology investment over the next 12 months — with nearly 50% increasing their investments in AI capabilities. While generative AI is expected to deliver greater productivity and efficiency, 50% of technology leaders will fail to master the AI skills gap. Join this keynote to discover what the future holds for tech leaders in 2024 and how they can achieve growth with continuous improvement from insights and AI.\n\n\nForrester analysts will unveil new research to help chief information officers, chief technology officers, chief digital officers, and their teams uncover best practices and tools to enable, create, and amplify growth through their technology strategy. Additionally, Forrester will host an AI hack-a-thon on September 10 where in-person attendees will work in teams using various large language models (LLMs) to address food insecurity in Austin and create pitch materials for local civic investors and philanthropists. This event is structured to foster learning around both generative AI’s capabilities as well as its limitations.\n\n\nNoteworthy new research to be showcased at this year’s event includes:\n\n\n\nFuture Fit Organizations Need Adaptive Leaders. Today, leaders face increasing and accelerating uncertainty, which manifests itself in economic turbulence, new ways of working, talent shortages, and challenges of continuous transformation. Join this session to explore how leaders can help their teams be adaptive, creative, and resilient despite these challenges.\n\n\n\n\nCaution! Shiny Objects Can Blind You. To make smart and strategic investments, tech leaders need to gauge the barriers and caveats to adopting currently hyped emerging technologies, including generative AI. Join this panel to determine which emerging technologies have potential and which can be ignored.\n\n\n\n\nTechnical Debt Modernization And Migration Scenario Tool. When developing and evaluating modernization and migration strategies, ...