Appian shares a few stats for 2018:
- Traditional industries will be hit hard by emerging technology in 2018
- Robotic Process Automation (RPA) will dramatically transform knowledge tasks. 100 million global knowledge workers could be impacted by RPA by 2025
- With cloud computing expected to surge from $67B to $162B by 2020, the gap between startup and large companies will shrink faster than ever
- in 2020, AI will become a net job creator, creating 2.3M jobs while eliminating 1.8M jobs. Net job creation will vary by industry, with manufacturing experiencing the biggest impact.
- Global spending on digital transformation technology will surge to $1.2 trillion this year, and hit 2 trillion by 2020, according to IDC
SOURCES:
- https://assets.kpmg.com/content/dam/kpmg/pdf/2016/04/employees-an-endangered-species.pdf
- https://www.forbes.com/forbes/welcome/?toURL=https://www.forbes.com/sites/louiscolumbus/2017/04/29/roundup-of-cloud-computing-forecasts-2017/&refURL=&referrer=#44a2bbba31e8
- https://www.gartner.com/smarterwithgartner/gartner-top-strategic-predictions-for-2018-and-beyond/
- https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS42327517