The bigger change is that document work once split across separate products is starting to run as a single workflow. IDP was not new in 2023. What changed was the work it took to get value from it.

Ricoh and ETRIA (a manufacturer built on Ricoh, Toshiba Tec and OKI technologies) announced Circular New on October 6, 2026, to build new A3 multifunction printers (MFPs) partly from components ...

Human-speed governance is oversight that depends on committees, scheduled reviews and manual reconciliation, a model that cannot keep pace with AI agents making thousands of decisions per second. What ...

A knowledge architect is the role that defines the standards, practices and exception rules AI agents operate within, giving agents a governed foundation to learn from and letting them improve faster ...

Insights from IDC’s Autonomy on a Leash: A Framework for Agentic AI Governance Human-on-the-loop AI supervision is a governance model in which people are notified of an AI agent’s actions and can ...

Techflation is the sustained increase in technology costs caused by capacity demand for processors, memory, and datacenter power and cooling that supply cannot match. According to IDC, the trigger is ...

A software factory is the set of systems that create, build, and deliver an organization’s code. IDC predicts that by 2028, 50% of large enterprises will treat these systems as critical infrastructure ...

AI gaslighting is the exposure an enterprise faces when its own AI systems generate reports, communications, analytics and automated decisions that are misleading or factually wrong, and people cannot ...

An AI-first enterprise runs a majority of its business processes with AI agents as the default starting point and humans assisting and providing oversight, an operating model IDC predicts 60% of ...

Technical debt in AI initiatives is the accumulated legacy architecture, brittle integration and data debt that cause AI projects to fail, cost more and stall before they scale. What is Technical Debt ...

AI sovereignty is the control a nation or organization holds over how AI is created, delivered and governed, across the data used for training, the algorithms and the physical chips that run them.

IDC MaturityScape for AI is a five-stage maturity model that shows how far an organization has progressed toward becoming AI-fueled, assessed across four dimensions: strategy, governance, people and ...