Ways of tech - Solita

Trend report 2026-2027: Ways of tech – Top technology trends: What leaders need to know

The report will help you turn AI from pilots into real value across operating models, data, governance, talent, and decision-making. It isn’t another trend list, but a practical interpretation of what leaders should do next.

AI is changing competition faster than many expected. Advantages that once took years to build can now weaken quickly as capabilities spread and barriers to entry fall. At the same time, leaders are being pushed to make harder choices about operating models, data, governance, talent, dependency, and control.

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Turn AI into a durable advantage

Ways of tech is a report for leaders who need clarity on what matters now. 20+ experts in Europe identified five trends in AI transformation and explored them through practical industry examples. The report focuses on the structural shifts organisations need to make to create lasting value.

This report is for business and technology leaders asking questions like:

How do we turn AI into a real source of competitive advantage?
How do we reduce risky dependencies without slowing down?
How do we build data, architecture, and governance that support both speed and control?
How do we adapt teams, talent, and decision-making to an AI-enabled organisation?

We hope this report helps you cut through the noise, ask questions, and make more confident choices about where to focus.

Ossi Lindroos President and CEO, Solita

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Key learnings

Your competitive edge risks fading

AI is making advantage easier to copy and faster to lose
Better stop renting your future

Lasting value starts with greater control over critical dependencies
Agile isn’t enough anymore

Faster development demands new ways to govern, decide, and deliver
When agents go rogue

Security, governance, and AI costs are rising on the leadership agenda
Your talent model is out of date

AI is shifting organisations from fixed roles toward evolving capabilities

Trusted across 8 countries and 2,200+ digital professionals

Solita’s experience from the public and private sectors feeds into every insight.

Solita is an AI and data-driven technology company dedicated to digital transformation. Empowering businesses and societies to reinvent themselves, we focus on advanced technology, data innovation, and human insight by offering strategic consulting, service design, software development, AI & analytics, and managed cloud services. Trusted across 8 countries and by 2,200+ professionals.

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The future belongs to organisations that can flexibly develop processes without overhauling their core systems all the time. That requires modular architecture that is ready for both AI and continuous change.