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How these trends impact your company
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Multiple forces are coming together to disrupt and challenge company operations, including growing consumer demand for transparency and sustainability, continued supply chain pressures, worker shortages, and expectations for rapid turnaround times. Companies can address some of these challenges by evaluating areas of their operations where inefficiency is greatest, and streamlining activities, leveraging technological solutions where possible.
Robotics, drones, supply chain technologies, and evolving transportation are coming together to transform operations for businesses of all industries in the near future. Companies and their organizations should begin to evaluate their value chain, and identify areas that are manually intensive, dangerous, or easily repeatable. These tasks could be good candidates for enhancement through technology, and create renewed opportunities for human workers to work on enhancing and transforming organizations.
Several technologies in the fields of robotics and drones are still relatively nascent, such as self-assembling robots, drone swarms, and microelectromechanical systems (smart dust). These technologies exist today but require real-world trials and tests to reach their maximum potential. Businesses, likewise, are best suited to identify unique use cases for these tech solutions based on their greatest needs or barriers. Safety, security, health, and connection are four key driving forces behind the development of these capabilities, showcasing their potential to positively impact both company and worker experiences and consumer outcomes in the near future.
GROWTH We anticipate sustained growth in all of these areas, particularly in robotics and drones. Current adoption of these technologies has been on a consistent rise over several years, and decreasing cost and increasing efficiency of these solutions will only serve to drive further growth. While companies have a huge opportunity to benefit from these improved solutions, governments likewise could leverage these systems to support U.S. agriculture, battle climate change, improve countrywide infrastructure, and unlock new potential in existing supply chain systems.
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