Gartner Predicts Mainstream Adoption of Everyday AI and Digital Employee Experience Within Two Years

Gartner Says Everyday AI and Digital Employee Experience Are Two Years Away from Mainstream Adoption

Everyday AI & Digital Employee Experience Have a Mutual Relationship and Are the Nearest-Term Transformative Innovations Everyday AI and digital employee experience (DEX) are projected to reach mainstream adoption in less than two years according to the Gartner, Inc. Hype Cycle for Digital Workplace Applications, 2024. "Everyday AI promises to remove digital friction, by helping employees write, research, collaborate and ideate," said Matt Cain, Distinguished VP Analyst at Gartner. "It is a core part of DEX, which is a concentrated effort to remove digital friction and improve workforce digital dexterity, which itself is one of the key factors that will drive organizational prosperity through 2030." 2024 has been a critical year for digital workplace application leaders, as the focus on hybrid and remote work dwindles and the need for a strategic concentration on everyday AI rises. Everyday AI is placed on the Peak of Inflated Expectations on the Gartner Hype Cycle for Digital Workplace Applications, 2024 (see Figure 1). Figure 1. Hype Cycle for Digital Workplace Applications, 2024 Source: Gartner (August 2024) Everyday AI Is Crucial to Enhance Workforce Productivity "Everyday AI technology aims to help employees deliver work with speed, comprehensiveness and confidence," said Adam Preset, VP Analyst at Gartner. "It supports a new way of working, where intelligent software is acting as more of a collaborator than a tool. The digital workplace is now entering the era of everyday AI." As technology vendors seek ways to improve productivity among workers that go beyond traditional application and feature enhancements, they can look towards everyday AI. This technology not only delivers productivity benefits, but also provides new marketable offerings such as tools to help workers find and synthesize relevant information, answer questions more comprehensively and produce work artifacts more easily. "Everyday AI will become more sophisticated, moving from services that, for example, can sort and summarize chats and email messages to services that can write a report with minimal guidance," said Preset. "In many ways, everyday AI is the future of workforce productivity." Increased Emphasis on Organizations to Have a DEX Strategy Nearly all employees are becoming digital employees as they spend more time working with technology than ever before. Because of this, organizations must have a strategy to measure and improve DEX to attract and retain talent to improve employee engagement and maximize discretionary effort and intent-to-stay. Business leaders are looking for guidance on how technology can help boost productivity and organizational alignment. DEX emphasizes best practices that boost digital dexterity, attract and retain talent, and help employees deliver against business outcomes. DEX is in the Trough of Disillusionment on the Hype Cycle, meaning that interest is waning as experiments and implementations fail to deliver. To increase the appeal and relevance around DEX, business leaders should take a holistic approach across IT and non-IT partners to build a meaningful environment that empowers employees to adopt new ways of working. Gartner clients can read more in "Hype Cycle for Digital Workplace Applications, 2024." Additional trends related to AI and digital business transformation will be presented during Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo, the world's most important conferences for CIOs and other IT executives. Gartner analysts and attendees will explore the technology, insights and trends shaping the future of IT and business, including AI, business transformation, cybersecurity, customer experience, data analytics, executive leadership and more. Follow news and updates from the conferences on X using #GartnerSYM, and on the Gartner Newsroom. Upcoming dates and locations for Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo include: September 9-11 2024 | Gold Coast, Australia October 21-24 2024 | Orlando, FL October 28-30 2024 | Tokyo, Japan November 4-7 2024 | Barcelona, Spain November 11-13 2024 | Kochi, India About Gartner for Information Technology Executives Gartner for Information Technology Executives provides actionable, objective insight to CIOs and IT leaders to help them drive their organizations through digital transformation and lead business growth. Additional information is available at www.gartner.com/en/information-technology. Follow news and updates from Gartner for IT Executives on X and LinkedIn using #GartnerIT. Visit the IT Newsroom for more information and insights. About Gartner Gartner, Inc. (NYSE: IT) delivers actionable, objective insight that drives smarter decisions and stronger performance on an organization's mission-critical priorities. To learn more, visit gartner.com.

Gartner says everyday AI and digital employee experience are two years away from mainstream adoption

DUBAI, UAE -- Everyday AI and digital employee experience (DEX) are projected to reach mainstream adoption in less than two years according to the Gartner, Inc. Hype Cycle for Digital Workplace Applications, 2024. "Everyday AI promises to remove digital friction, by helping employees write, research, collaborate and ideate," said Matt Cain, Distinguished VP Analyst at Gartner. "It is a core part of DEX, which is a concentrated effort to remove digital friction and improve workforce digital dexterity, which itself is one of the key factors that will drive organizational prosperity through 2030." 2024 has been a critical year for digital workplace application leaders, as the focus on hybrid and remote work dwindles and the need for a strategic concentration on everyday AI rises. Everyday AI is placed on the Peak of Inflated Expectations on the Gartner Hype Cycle for Digital Workplace Applications, 2024 (see Figure 1). Figure 1. Hype Cycle for Digital Workplace Applications, 2024 Source: Gartner (August 2024) Everyday AI Is Crucial to Enhance Workforce Productivity "Everyday AI technology aims to help employees deliver work with speed, comprehensiveness and confidence," said Adam Preset, VP Analyst at Gartner. "It supports a new way of working, where intelligent software is acting as more of a collaborator than a tool. The digital workplace is now entering the era of everyday AI." As technology vendors seek ways to improve productivity among workers that go beyond traditional application and feature enhancements, they can look towards everyday AI. This technology not only delivers productivity benefits, but also provides new marketable offerings such as tools to help workers find and synthesize relevant information, answer questions more comprehensively and produce work artifacts more easily. "Everyday AI will become more sophisticated, moving from services that, for example, can sort and summarise chats and email messages to services that can write a report with minimal guidance," said Preset. "In many ways, everyday AI is the future of workforce productivity." Increased Emphasis on Organizations to Have a DEX Strategy Nearly all employees are becoming digital employees as they spend more time working with technology than ever before. Because of this, organizations must have a strategy to measure and improve DEX to attract and retain talent to improve employee engagement and maximize discretionary effort and intent-to-stay. Business leaders are looking for guidance on how technology can help boost productivity and organisational alignment. DEX emphasizes best practices that boost digital dexterity, attract and retain talent, and help employees deliver against business outcomes. DEX is in the Trough of Disillusionment on the Hype Cycle, meaning that interest is waning as experiments and implementations fail to deliver. To increase the appeal and relevance around DEX, business leaders should take a holistic approach across IT and non-IT partners to build a meaningful environment that empowers employees to adopt new ways of working. Gartner clients can read more in "Hype Cycle for Digital Workplace Applications, 2024." Gartner CIO & IT Executive Conference Gartner analysts will provide additional analysis on insights and trends shaping the future of IT and business, including accelerating business transformation, application modernization, infrastructure and operations at the Gartner CIO & IT Executive Conference, taking place September 23-25 in São Paulo and November 19-21 in Dubai. Follow news and updates from the conference on X using #GartnerCIO. -Ends- About Gartner for Information Technology Executives Gartner for Information Technology Executives provides actionable, objective insight to CIOs and IT leaders to help them drive their organizations through digital transformation and lead business growth. Additional information is available at www.gartner.com/en/information-technology. Follow news and updates from Gartner for IT Executives on X and LinkedIn using #GartnerIT. Visit the IT Newsroom for more information and insights. About Gartner Gartner, Inc. (NYSE: IT) delivers actionable, objective insight that drives smarter decisions and stronger performance on an organization's mission-critical priorities. To learn more, visit gartner.com. CONTACTS: Anisha Pamnani Wallis [email protected]