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The 2024 Disruptive Trends Report

The 2024 Disruptive Trends Report
We reveal the inside track on what business and technology leaders actually think about the impact of disruptive trends and technologies on their business models and industry sectors, and it is the go-to annual guide to help inform business and technology investment priorities for the year ahead.

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Twilio Report

What’s preventing the realisation of CX visions?
We explore the current landscape, and unpack the ambitions and visions leaders have for customer experience.  

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Maximising Business Impact From AI

Maximising Business Impact from AI
As part of our mission to help members make sense of disruptive trends and technologies, we explore AI and set out to understand members’ approaches to their AI investments and initiatives in the next 18 months.  

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The 2023 Disruptive Trends Report

The 2023 Disruptive Trends Report
A snapshot of how organisations are navigating this uncertain operating environment and reveal the technologies that respondents believe will play an essential part in building business resilience, enabling them to respond rapidly to changing market needs. 

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Insights into What’s Shaping Flexible Working-1

Insights into What’s Shaping Flexible Working
Explore this topic through the lens of technology, leadership, employee wellbeing and engagement, as well as from the point of view of a traditional business and a new start-up.  

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Information Risk Management Expectations Versus Reality

Information Risk Management - Expectations Versus Reality
Benefit from guiding principles and advice from industry leaders, and take away simple but effective strategies to safeguard your organisation's information for competitive advantage.  

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Tanium

Information Risk Management for Business Growth
Throughout our cross-industry interviews, we found that C-level technology leaders are successfully proving that “innovation vs protection” can be a false dichotomy.  

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Mastering Hybrid Working in Financial Services

Mastering Hybrid Working in Financial Services
A view of emerging tech trends and ways of working to attract and retain top talent. We look at the role technology is playing in attracting and retaining talent, and how it is enabling employees to deliver exceptional outcomes for co-workers and customers from anywhere.  

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Building Digital Advantage

Building Digital Advantage Whitepaper 2021
In this white paper, we hear from the people spearheading their transformation and elevating a new standard of digital leadership within healthcare, media, financial services and transport.

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Making Sense of The Metaverse

Making Sense of The Metaverse
As part of our mission to help members make sense of disruptive trends and technologies, we set out to explore with them what is arguably the greatest, certainly the most hype-fuelled disruptive trend since the launch of the internet itself; the metaverse.  

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The 2022 Disruptive Trends Report

The 2022 Disruptive Trends Report
Since 2005, we’ve helped business leaders navigate current disruptions - whether technological or otherwise. Examine the disruptive forces at play in 2022 and how businesses can respond.

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How to Get More Value out of Data: The Crash-Course

How to Get More Value out of Data: The Crash-Course
This report highlights those trends from one of our webinar series. Download the whitepaper now to help you get more value out of data at every stage of the data maturity journey.

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The State of Recovery Report.

The State of Recovery Report
Explore how different industries are emerging from the impacts of the pandemic, map attitudes towards business recovery, and lay out the major lessons learnt from the last 18 months..

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An API Management State of Mind

An API Management State of Mind
For the purpose of this report, we spoke to senior architectural and technical leaders from industries including retail, media, finance, telecommunications and the public sector.

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Data Maturity in Manufacturing

Data Maturity in Manufacturing
Uncover the principal challenges facing the manufacturing sector, the secrets to new levels of data maturity across the sector, including AI and digital twins, and how to create the plants and products of the future.

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Digital Trends Report 2021

Digital Trends Report 2021
Since 2005, we’ve helped business leaders navigate current disruptions - whether technological or otherwise. Examine the disruptive forces at play in 2021 and how businesses can respond.

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The Rise of Application Testing

The Rise of Enterprise Application Testing 2020
Hear from testing leaders redefining end-to-end quality strategies and modernization. This report highlights challenges to enterprise application testing – from skills gaps to IT-business alignment.

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Digital Trends Report 2020

Digital Trends Report 2020
Since 2005, we’ve helped business leaders navigate current disruptions - whether technological or otherwise. Examine the disruptive forces at play in 2020 and how businesses can respond.

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Delivering Future Transport Through Data

Delivering Future Transport Through Data 2020
Data-driven insights are essential to adapt to the new conditions of COVID-19. This research with Cognizant and Mulesoft, unearths how the transport sector is liberating the value of data.

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Chief Disruptor Magazine Autumn 2019 Edition

Chief Disruptor Magazine Autumn 2019 Edition
Explore the most disruptive thing yet: humans. This issue is about power play and what it will take to balance out the competition.

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Chief Disruptor Magazine Summer 2018

Chief Disruptor Magazine Summer 2019 Edition
The rise in information has led to a rise in fake news, information warfare and tribalism. In this edition, we examine the “discomfort zone”, the physical space that is being steadily disrupted by digital.

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Chief Disruptor Magazine Spring 2019 Edition

Chief Disruptor Magazine Spring 2019 Edition
In this edition, we examine the “discomfort zone”, the physical space that is being steadily disrupted by digital.

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Digital Trends Report 2019

Digital Trends Report 2019
Having surveyed and gathered insights from almost 300 Digital Leaders from a wide range of organisations and industries, our report provided an exclusive look at how to get ahead of the challenges businesses faced in 2019. 

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Chief Disruptor Magazine - Spring 2018 Edition

Chief Disruptor Magazine Spring 2018 Edition
In this edition, we are looking at the role of the “ digital citizen” and how it is set to change in the context of digital.

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Digital Trends Report 2018

Digital Trends Report 2018
Since 2005, we’ve helped business leaders navigate current disruptions - whether technological or otherwise. Examine the disruptive forces at play in 2018 and how businesses can respond.

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Chief Disruptor Magazine Winter 2017 Edition.

Chief Disruptor Magazine Winter 2017 Edition
Innovation is driving change at a speed we have never seen before. Explore every change in technology, from the conglomerating of the tech giants through to the helter-skelter of cryptocurrency valuations. 

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Platform Economy 2016

Platform Economy 2016
After gripping the media for years, the platform economy is set to transform the competitive landscape. Our research dispels the myth that ‘platforms are just for tech companies.  

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Innovation Ecosystems 2016

Innovation Ecosystems 2016
'Ecosystem' describes the variety of complex networks and interdependent relationships that exist in today's business and technology landscapes. This report explores the role of innovation ecosystems in the digital economy.  

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Digital Business Model Reinvention

Digital Business Model Reinvention 2016
Learn about the phenomenon of digital disruption and its transformative impact on the competitive landscape and established brands.

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Enterprise Digital Trends

Enterprise Digital Trends Report 2014
This report maps the current perceptions, innovation opportunities and outlook surrounding enterprise digital disruption. Uncover what senior executives really think about the threats and opportunities of digital disruption.

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Big Data in Finance

Big Data in Finance 2013
The financial services industry must understand, assess and act on risk analysis. Through real-world examples, this report will outline where big data can play a transformational role.

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Applied Insights

Big Data in Manufacturing 2013
This is the first in a series of reports examining how different sectors are applying big data analytics for competitive advantage and, crucially, what every business can learn from them.

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Big Data Industry Trends Report 2013

Big Data Industry Trends Report 2013
Big data has come about because of this exponential rise in the number of data organisations are storing and managing. What are organisations doing with their data and whose responsibility is it? 

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