IT leaders continue to grapple with concerns around security, operations, and applications in the first half of 2024. However, our most popular research and resources reveal that they’re looking to AI for solutions.
IT leaders recognize that exponential technologies are here, led by generative AI
The top research publications and research centers in the first half of 2024 spanned the traditional areas of concerns, but with AI solutions. IT leaders recognized AI’s potential, and the need to get ahead of exponential technologies.
- Organizations and departments scrambled to seek value from generative AI in security, operations, and applications.
- They continued to keep a focus on evolving their reporting, communication, and innovation mandates.
- Cybersecurity imperatives stayed on top of IT leaders’ agendas.
- There was a sudden increase in demand for IT to start supporting critical organizational outcomes from exponential technologies.
- IT leaders focused on setting a vision and building roadmaps for Exponential IT.
Evolve IT with our peer-informed lists of must-reads midway through 2024
As an IT leader, you’re navigating a dynamic landscape – more than ever with the advent of generative AI. Use our most popular resources to:
- Get the latest trends, future-defining insights, and guidance on AI, security, data, and applications, so you can innovate and stay competitive.
- Ensure the optimal performance of your IT department, and back your decisions with proven methodologies that lead to improved outcomes.
- Stay up to date with the latest trends, generative AI principles, and technological advancements that will prepare you for exponential IT change.
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- Generative AI entered the mainstream, and IT leaders recognized that in addition to performing at the highest standard in their traditional roles, they also needed to use AI as a solution.
- Organizations and departments scrambled to seek value from generative AI in security, operations, and applications.
- They continued to keep a focus on evolving their reporting, communication, and innovation mandates.
- Cybersecurity imperatives stayed on top of IT leaders’ agendas.
- There was a sudden increase in demand for IT to start supporting critical organizational outcomes from exponential technologies.
- IT leaders focused on setting a vision and building roadmaps for Exponential IT.
Top Research & Products in 2024
“Here is Info-Tech’s most popular research so far in 2024.”
Gord Harrison
Chief Research Officer
Info-Tech Research Group
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Build a Reporting and Analytical Insights Strategy
Deliver actionable business insights by creating a business-aligned reporting and analytics strategy. -
Artificial Intelligence Research Center
Augment the power of your organizational DNA through machine learning and artificial intelligence. -
Privacy Regulation Roundup
A monthly report with actionable Info-Tech insights and links to research to assist you with becoming compliant with every relevant regulatory activity. -
Build an Information Security Strategy
Align the information security strategy to organizational goals and risks to create value. -
Deploy AIOps to Improve IT Operations
Transform your organization and revolutionize IT Operations by fostering a data-driven approach. -
Prepare for Microsoft 365 Copilot
Realize the potential when deploying Copilot for your employees and revolutionize their work.
Top Research & Products in 2024
“Empower your entire IT team with targeted research in a wide range of IT topics.”
Jack Hakimian
Senior Vice President
Info-Tech Research Group
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AI Marketplace
Unlock the potential of AI tailored to your needs and transform possibilities into reality with our dedicated support. -
Visualize the IT Operating Model
Demonstrate how IT continuously enables value for the organization. -
Rationalize Your Application Portfolio
Establish an evergreen application portfolio management (APM) program to deliver the best possible return on investment. -
CIO Priorities 2024
Harness AI to launch exponential IT value creation. -
Develop an Exponential IT Roadmap
Evolve IT to harness unprecedented opportunities in the era of exponential technologies. -
Develop Your Agile Approach for a Successful Transformation
Understand Agile fundamentals, principles, and practices so you can apply them effectively in your organization.
Top Research & Products in 2024
“Beyond trends, Info-Tech provides deep-dive tools to help get you to action.”
Carlene McCubbin
Associate Vice President
Info-Tech Research Group
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Govern the Use of AI Responsibly With a Fit-for-Purpose Structure
Enable your organization to transparently deliver effective and human-centric AI. -
Develop and Implement a Security Incident Management Program
Create a scalable incident response program without breaking the bank. -
Build Your AI Strategic Roadmap
Transforming the organization with AI. -
IT Talent Trends 2024
Enhancing the human in the age of automation. -
Security Priorities 2024
Prepare your organization to respond to an evolving threat landscape. -
Infrastructure & Operations Priorities 2024
Approach innovation and change with realism and responsibility.
Tech Trends 2025
Define Your Digital Business Strategy
Kick-Start IT-Led Business Innovation
Establish a Foresight Capability
Apply Design Thinking to Build Empathy With the Business
Sustain and Grow the Maturity of Innovation in Your Enterprise
Position IT to Support and Be a Leader in Open Data Initiatives
Double Your Organization’s Effectiveness With a Digital Twin
Develop a Use Case for Smart Contracts
Adopt Design Thinking in Your Organization
Accelerate Digital Transformation With a Digital Factory
Tech Trends 2024
2021 Tech Trends
Implement and Mature Your User Experience Design Practice
CIO Priorities 2022
2022 Tech Trends
Into the Metaverse
Demystify Blockchain: How Can It Bring Value to Your Organization?
2020 Tech Trend Report
2020 CIO Priorities Report
CIO Trend Report 2019
CIO Trend Report 2018
CIO Trend Report 2017
AI and the Future of Enterprise Productivity
Evolve Your Business Through Innovation
Build a Platform-Based Organization
Tech Trend Update: If Contact Tracing Then Distributed Trust
Tech Trend Update: If Biosecurity Then Autonomous Edge
Tech Trend Update: If Digital Ethics Then Data Equity
Tech Trends 2023
Formalize Your Digital Business Strategy
Select and Prioritize Digital Initiatives
Adopt an Exponential IT Mindset
Build Your Enterprise Innovation Program
Build Your Generative AI Roadmap
Annual CIO Survey Report 2024
Drive Innovation With an Exponential IT Mindset
Exponential IT for Financial and Vendor Management
Exponential IT for Strategy, Risk, and Governance
Exponential IT for Service Planning and Architecture
Exponential IT for People and Leadership
Exponential IT for Security and Privacy
Exponential IT for Applications
Exponential IT for Data and Analytics
Exponential IT for Infrastructure and Operations
Exponential IT for Project and Portfolio Management
Assess Your AI Maturity
Develop Responsible AI Guiding Principles
Identify and Select Pilot AI Use Cases
Exponential IT Keynote
CIO Priorities 2024
Build a Scalable AI Deployment Plan
Build Your AI Strategy Roadmap
Develop an Exponential IT Roadmap
Use ChatGPT Wisely to Improve Productivity
Build a FinOps Strategy to Enable Dynamic Cloud Cost Management
Establish a Roadmap for Integrated and Dynamic Risk Management
Info-Tech’s Best of 2024 Mid-Year Report: AI Rewrites the Script for CIOs
Explore the Art of the Possible for Exponential IT
IT Management & Governance: The Next Evolution
Bending the Exponential IT Curve Keynote
Exponential IT in Motion: Transform Your Organization by Transforming IT
AI Trends 2025
LIVE 2024 Keynote Presentations
LIVE 2024 Lightning Round Presentations
CIO Priorities 2025
Info-Tech’s Best of 2024 Report: IT Moves Into Position
Build Your AI Risk Management Roadmap
Build Your Agentic AI Prototype
An Operational Framework for Rolling Out AI
The AI Vendor Landscape in IT
Run IT By the Numbers
Building Info-Tech’s Chatbot
Assessing the AI Ecosystem
Bring AI Out of the Shadows
Transform IT, Transform Everything
Implement AI for Customer Experience
Info-Tech’s Best of 2025 Mid-Year Report: IT Moves From Disruption to Decisive Action
Implement an AI-Orchestrated Service Desk
Info-Tech's All-Time Best, 2025 Edition: Change Is the Headline, Fundamentals Are the Path
Tech Trends 2026