Gartner: Excellent strategic forecasts for 2022 and beyond

At the IT Symposium/Xpo Americas conference held this week, Gartner Research Vice President Daryl Plummer said that IT leaders need to be able to simultaneously develop in multiple strategic directions. Plummer said: "Resilience, opportunity, and risk have always been part of a good business strategy, but today these issues have new meanings." This year's forecast reflects the need to build flexibility from talent to business modules in more non-traditional ways. At the same time, opportunities and risks must be viewed with a greater sense of urgency. "

In Gartner's top strategic forecasts for 2022, a considerable part is composed of people-related trends rather than technological expectations, which may reflect changes in the world of work. For example, a more thought-provoking trend predicted by Plummer is that by 2024, due to the self-directed nature of work and the nature of mixed offices, 30% of corporate teams will have no bosses. "The role of the manager as the commander and controller of the job is a major obstacle in an era where business agility requires team delegation and autonomy," Plummer said. "Planning, prioritizing and organizing work efforts must still happen, but'management' must be decoupled from the traditional'manager' role to reap the benefits of business agility and mixed work." Plummer said that the new crown epidemic has embedded agility into corporate operations and simplified business processes. This includes shifting from central decision-making to network-based point-to-point decision-making, which reduces bottlenecks and saves time in a mixed work environment. Plummer said that as the mixed work model continues, eliminating the traditional managerial role may be a more pragmatic way to improve efficiency.