It’s a staggering number, but as organizations look to build off existing strategies, direct digital transformation investment spending will approach $7.4 trillion between 2020 and 2023, reports IDC, resulting in organizations becoming digital-at-scale future enterprises.
In unveiling their FutureScape: Worldwide Digital Transformation 2020 Predictions report, IDC highlights the critical business drivers that are helping to accelerate DX initiatives and investments — in the face of business challenges, the speed of scaling, and rising customer expectations.
The 2020 report marks the fourth installation of IDC’s digital transformation predictions.
According to IDC analyst Shawn Fitzgerald, investment in direct digital transformation “is growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 17.5% from 2020 to 2023, and is expected to approach $7.1 trillion as companies build on existing strategies and investments, becoming digital-at-scale future enterprises.”
The report adds that digital transformation spending will grow to more than 50 percent of all ICT investment, from 36 percent today. The largest growth will be seen in the areas of data intelligence and analytics.
Fitzgerald, along with fellow IDC analyst Bob Parker, detailed the ten industry predictions that will, over the next one to five years, impact DX efforts of CIOs and IT professionals:
Prediction 1 – Future of Culture: By 2024, leaders in 50 percent of G2000 organizations will have mastered “future of culture” traits such as empathy, empowerment, innovation, and customer-and data-centricity to achieve leadership at scale.
Prediction 2 – Digital Co-Innovation: By 2022, empathy among brands and for customers will drive ecosystem collaboration and co-innovation among partners and competitors that will drive 20 percent collective growth in customer lifetime value.
Prediction 3 – AI at Scale: By 2024, with proactive, hyperspeed operational changes and market reactions, artificial intelligence (AI)-powered enterprises will respond to customers, competitors, regulators, and partners 50 percent faster than their peers.
Prediction 4 – Digital Offerings: By 2023, 50 percent of organizations will neglect investing in market-driven operations and will lose market share to existing competitors that made the investments, as well as to new digital market entries.
Prediction 5 – Digitally Enhanced Workers: By 2021, new future of work (FoW) practices will expand the functionality and effectiveness of the digital workforce by 35 percent, fueling an acceleration of productivity and innovation at practicing organizations.
Prediction 6 – Digital Investments: By 2023, DX spending will grow to over 50 percent of all ICT investment from 36 percent today, with the largest growth in data intelligence and analytics as companies create information-based competitive advantages.
Prediction 7 – Ecosystem Force Multipliers: By 2025, 80 percent of digital leaders will devise and differentiate end-customer value measures from their platform ecosystem participation, including an estimate of the ecosystem multiplier effects.
Prediction 8 – Digital KPIs Mature: By 2020, 60 percent of companies will have aligned digital KPIs to direct business value measures of revenue and profitability, eliminating today’s measurement crisis where DX KPIs are not directly aligned.
Prediction 9 – Platforms Modernize: Driven both by escalating cyberthreats and needed new functionality, 65 percent of organizations will aggressively modernize legacy systems with extensive new technology platform investments through 2023.
Prediction 10 – Invest for Insight: By 2023, enterprises seeking to monetize benefits of new intelligence technologies will invest over $265 billion worldwide, making DX business decision analytics and AI a nexus for digital innovation.