The average corporate strategy team allocates 26% of its time and $220,000 of the annual budget to investigate emerging trends. But with so many competing sources, strategy teams struggle to keep up, and much of that time and money is wasted.

Gartner's artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities scanned 100+ publications respected by strategy leaders to identify the most frequently mentioned emerging trends. This comprehensive scan revealed the 11 workforce trends most commonly referenced, including:

  • Increasing demand for digitally skilled talent

  • Emergence of a new category of jobs that are augmented by technology

Our report helps strategy leaders make sense of the hype surrounding these workforce trends and jump-start their market research and trend-sensing initiatives.