Barco

Our world and our markets are changing faster than ever. As these changes largely impact our customers’ businesses as well as ours, it is key to understand today’s market dynamics and take them into account when implementing our strategy and monitoring progress. More than that, we considered the prevailing market dynamics when we defined our new mission statement and strategy three years ago and continue to take these into account as the topics evolve and we step up our strategy.

Technological as well as global socio-economic trends affect our roadmap for the future:

While digitization was already high on the agendas of most organizations, the covid-19 pandemic accelerated the paradigm shift towards digitization and servitization of the economy in 2020. In the heat of the crisis, operating digitally was the only way to stay in business. Digital services, remote working and e-commerce are now here to stay. Trends that are bound to gain importance in the coming years include:

IoT solutions have reached maturity. Used in a growing number of applications in every industry, they now deliver tangible business benefits, from creating new data sources to providing real-time performance updates.

Cloud computing has been around for many years now. Today, almost everything is connected to the cloud in one way or another. According to Gartner, the proportion of IT spending that is shifting to the cloud will increase in the aftermath of the covid-19 crisis.

Leading organizations aim to become data driven as a way to accelerate business. Technologies like AI, machine learning and natural language processing have huge disruptive power, offering intelligence that may well surpass human insight.

In today’s digital, increasingly connected society, systems, networks and data must be protected from the rapidly accelerating threat of increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks, while also complying with data protection regulations.

The advent of the cloud triggered a new business model: a rising number of services and applications are now available as a service, i.e. on demand over the internet, instead of delivered using on-premise hardware and software. Businesses are adopting the on-demand offering as it allows them to acquire new technology quickly with fewer up-front costs.

With the rapid advancement of technology and globalization and with the resulting tighter competition, product life cycles have been shortening significantly over the past few years. As a result, companies are under constant pressure to rapidly develop and launch new products and optimize revenue and profit.

By 2050, up to six of what are currently known as emerging nations could be among the seven largest economies in the world, according to projections by PwC and others. Among them is China, which is steadily assuming a new role at the epicenter of global technology and innovation.

‘Creating a more sustainable world’ – and balancing that quest with economic interests – may well be one of the biggest challenges of today’s society.

Read our ‘markets’ sections to discover trends in events (Entertainment),in meeting rooms and in control rooms (Enterprise) as well as in radiology and operating rooms (Healthcare).