What Are The Biggest Technology Consulting Trends in 2025?
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The biggest 2025 technology consulting trends: agentic AI, trust and governance, post-quantum readiness, spatial computing, energy-efficient and hybrid computing, robotics with frontier models, synthetic data, and AI-accelerated core modernization. Why now: IT spend is rising, and leaders want short pilots with measurable outcomes and risk controls.
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Top 10 technology consulting trends for 2025
1) Agentic AI and digital agents
What: Autonomous agents plan and act in workflows and channels. Why/how: Start with bounded agents for ITSM, sales support, or operations. Add approvals, observability, and rollback controls. Pair with digital and technology delivery for safe scale.
2) AI governance and disinformation security
What: Platforms to manage model risk and protect brand from manipulation. Why/how: Build policies, model lifecycle, evals, and red-team routines; monitor misuse and narrative attacks; link to business transformation KPIs.
3) Post-quantum cryptography
What: Crypto-agility to migrate to quantum-resistant algorithms. Why/how: Inventory crypto, test PQC, and create dual-stack plans for high-value data and regulated systems.
4) Spatial computing
What: AR and immersive analytics for training, field ops, and design. Why/how: Pilot high-value scenes such as remote assist and 3D planning, then integrate with PLM and EHS systems.
5) Energy-efficient computing
What: Architecture, code, and hardware choices that reduce power and cost. Why/how: Track watts per token or per inference and embed GreenOps in cloud and data-center plans.
6) Hybrid computing
What: Cloud, edge, and specialized accelerators orchestrated for cost and latency. Why/how: Build landing zones that span cloud and on-prem; add edge for vision, safety, and shop-floor analytics.
7) Robotics with frontier models
What: Robots enhanced by large multimodal models for general tasks. Why/how: Test pick-assist, mobile inspection, or service scenarios with safety, tele-ops, and insurance considerations.
8) Data products and synthetic data
What: Reusable, governed data assets plus generated data for safe training. Why/how: Stand up a small catalog, owners, and quality SLOs; generate privacy-preserving data where real data is scarce.
9) Intelligent core and platform modernization
What: ERP and core apps infused with AI and automation. Why/how: Define modernization backlogs with value stream mapping, then execute with change management and finance-owned benefits tracking.
10) AI-augmented delivery in consulting
What: Firms use copilots, synthetic data, and platform engineering to deliver faster. Why/how: Ask for eight-to-twelve-week pilots with ROI, governance, and a scale plan. Watch rate cards and outcome-based pricing.
Why 2025 is different
Global IT spending is projected to expand, while leaders shift from experiments to agent-based systems, spatial use cases, and modernization of core platforms. That creates demand for outcome-tied digital consulting services and business transformation programs with clearer governance.
| Finding | Figure | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Worldwide IT spending outlook for 2025 | $5.61 trillion; about 9.8% growth vs. 2024 | Gartner forecast summary |
| Executives say AI agents will reinvent how systems are built | 77% agree; 78% say ecosystems must support agents | Accenture Technology Vision 2025 |
| Driver of 2025 tech investments | AI infrastructure is a primary driver (near 8% spike) | CIO Dive |
| Consulting market growth outlook | About 5–7% growth in 2025 (varies by segment) | Source Global Research |
| Authoritative “top 10 technology trends” set for 2025 | Agentic AI, PQC, spatial, AI governance, disinformation security, energy-efficient computing, hybrid computing, polyfunctional robots, neurological enhancement | Gartner Top 10 |
Use these signals to prioritize a short pilot roadmap with clear controls and value owners.
Practical next steps
- Agentic AI. Start with service or ops agents in a sandbox, with human-in-the-loop and audit trails.
- Trust. Stand up an AI policy and evaluation layer with model inventory, monitoring, and incident playbooks.
- Post-quantum. Launch crypto inventories and pilots for PQC. Build dual-stack plans for high-value data.
- Spatial. Pilot one immersive training or field support scenario with a measurable safety or time benefit.
- Hybrid compute. Build a cloud-to-edge landing zone and cost model; add GreenOps metrics.
- Modernize the core. Fund backlogs tied to KPIs; integrate change management early.
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Sources
- Gartner. Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2025. https://www.gartner.com/en/articles/top-technology-trends-2025
- Deloitte. Tech Trends 2025. https://www.deloitte.com/us/en/insights/topics/technology-management/tech-trends.html
- Accenture. Technology Vision 2025. https://www.accenture.com/us-en/insights/technology/technology-trends-2025
- McKinsey. Technology Trends Outlook 2025 (PDF). https://www.mckinsey.com/~/media/mckinsey/business%20functions/mckinsey%20digital/our%20insights/the%20top%20trends%20in%20tech%202025/mckinsey-technology-trends-outlook-2025.pdf
- Gartner IT Spending Forecast coverage. https://technologymagazine.com/articles/gartner-why-global-it-spending-will-hit-us-5-61tn-in-2025
- CIO Dive. Global IT spend keeps growing despite trade concerns. https://www.ciodive.com/news/tech-spend-surge-slackens-cloud-ai-building-boom/752980/
- Source Global Research. The Technology Consulting Market in 2024–2025. https://www.sourceglobalresearch.com/reports/9547-the-technology-consulting-market-in-2024-2025
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Aykut Cakir, Senior Partner and Chief Executive Officer, has a demonstrated history in negotiations, business planning, business development. He has served as a Finance Director for gases & energy, pharmaceuticals, retail, FMCG, and automotive industries. He has collaborated closely with client leadership to co-create a customized operating model tailored to the unique needs of each project segment in the region. Aykut conducted workshops focused on developing effective communication strategies to ensure team alignment with new operating models and organizational changes.
