IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Future of Industry Ecosystems 2022 Predictions

IDC FutureScape Figure

• Figure: IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Future of Industry Ecosystems 2022 Top 10 Predictions

Executive Summary

IDC FutureScape Predictions

• Summary of External Drivers

• Predictions: Impact on Technology Buyers

• Prediction 1: By 2022, Organizations That Share Data, Applications, and Operations with Their Industry Ecosystem Will Realize a Revenue Increase of 3 Percentage Points Higher than Nonparticipants

• Associated Drivers

• IT Impact

• Guidance

• Prediction 2: By 2024, 80% of Industry Ecosystem Orchestrators Will Mandate a Uniform ESG Policy for Industry Ecosystem Participants Through a Governance Platform and Applications for Initial and Ongoing Verification

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• IT Impact

• Guidance

• Prediction 3: By 2023, 60% of Industry Ecosystems Will Establish Open Innovation Hubs for Cross-Industry Collaboration, Shared Application Development, Personalized Customer Engagement, and 5% YoY Participant Growth

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• IT Impact

• Guidance

• Prediction 4: By 2025, 80% of Industry Ecosystem Participants Will Leverage Their Own Product, Asset, and Process Digital Twins to Share Data and Insight with Other Participants

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• Prediction 5: By 2026, 25% of the New Application Portfolio of Global and Local Public, Private, and Nonprofit Organizations Will Consist of Consortia-Developed Applications within Their Industry Ecosystem

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• Prediction 6: By 2025, Blockchain Will Find Its Killer Application with Industry Ecosystems, as 80% of Global 2000 Organizations Use Distributed Ledgers in Their Ecosystem Initiatives to Establish and Assure Trust

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• IT Impact

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• Prediction 7: By 2022, 50% of the Fortune 500 Will Manage the Value of Shared Ecosystem Data via KPIs of Improved Operational Productivity, Ongoing Customer Engagement, and Skills Enhancement

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• IT Impact

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• Prediction 8: By 2023, 25% of Industry Organizations Will Utilize Venture Capital Subsidiaries and Funding from Industry Partners to Accelerate Ecosystem Scale, Finance Green Initiatives, and Spark New Innovation

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• IT Impact

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• Prediction 9: By 2024, 50% of Federal Governments Will Take an Active Role in Industry Ecosystem Development, Scale, and Support Through Legislation, Financing, Security, and Digital and Physical Infrastructure

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• Prediction 10: By 2026, on Average, 30% of Global 2000 Company Revenue Will Derive from Industry Ecosystem Shared Data, Applications, and Operations Initiatives with Partners, Industry Entities, and Business Networks

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• IT Impact

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Advice for Technology Buyers

External Drivers: Detail

• Pervasive Disruption Continues — Volatility, Opportunity, and Resilience

• Cybersecurity and Risk — The Threat Environment Just Keeps Scaling

• The Future Enterprise — Thriving in a Jungle of Agile Innovation

• The Velocity of Connectedness — The Future Is Data in Motion

• Intelligence on Demand — Navigating the Torrent of Data

• Digital Ecosystem — Thriving in a Multiplatform World

• Environmental and Social Responsibility — A New Stakeholder-Driven Imperative

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