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Top Trends and Forces Impacting Strategic Planning

Prepare your organization for the future.

Expert(s):  Marty Resnick, David Smith, James Boyle, Lucas Kobat, Mukul Saha, Benjamin Arnberg, Max Taggett, Samantha Searle, Bart Willemsen, Philip Walsh, Abbott Martin, Bettina Tratz-Ryan, Lillian Oyen-Ustad, Zainab Ali, Hertha Meyer, Frank Buytendijk, Daryl Plummer, Lizzy Foo Kune, Andrew Frank

Executive leaders cannot predict the future. However, they can adopt a deliberate approach to sensing and responding to trends, and maintain a repository of trends that are widely recognized as having potential impacts for organizations and society as a whole.

In this report, Gartner presents an overview of forces and trends that will be shaping business strategies over the next two to five years. These trends are grouped into three forces that will actively impact organizations. 

  1. Transforming humanity 
  2. Geopolitical unrest
  3. Democratization of information

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