Global Tech Report 2026
We are entering the Intelligence Age, a period defined by rapid technological acceleration, expanding AI capabilities, and a growing need for organizations to rethink how they operate, innovate and grow. As new technologies evolve faster than strategies can be updated, leaders face mounting pressure to scale AI responsibly, navigate persistent challenges such as technical debt and talent shortages, and build the foundations needed to stay competitive.
The KPMG Global Tech Report 2026 explores how 2,500 technology executives across 27 countries are responding to this shifting landscape. It highlights how organizations are moving beyond experimentation, embedding AI into workflows, accelerating their tech maturity journeys and adopting adaptive strategies that help them thrive amid continual disruption. From rising expectations around AI agents to the need for stronger data foundations and more resilient operating models, the report provides a detailed view of what it takes to excel today while preparing for tomorrow.
Discover how your organization can lead with confidence in the Intelligence Age by reading the full report.
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Key themes
Realizing value from tech investment
Tech ROI follows a predictable pattern in which early focused investments yield quick wins, returns slow as complexity increases, and then accelerate again as organizations mature and gain clearer insight into high‑value opportunities.
Meeting the challenge of the Intelligence Age
The Intelligence Age marks a rapidly accelerating era of technology, driven especially by AI, that expands human capability at scale and opens unprecedented opportunities to redefine what technology can achieve and how people collaborate.
Building adaptive strategies amid continual disruption
In the Intelligence Age, technology plans quickly become outdated, making it essential for organizations to adopt more adaptive, agile and well‑aligned decision‑making approaches to keep pace with continual disruption.
The foundations for the next wave
Amid the rapid rise of agentic AI, organizations are investing heavily in AI agents and must build the right foundations, skills and structures to enable effective human‑AI collaboration and fundamentally transform how they operate.
