Perspectives

Industry Outlooks

Look deeper: Key opportunities, trends, and challenges

What are the key trends, challenges, and opportunities that may impact your business and influence your strategy in the coming year? Find your industry below and gain perspectives and insights from some of Deloitte’s forward thinkers.

Take a closer look at the biggest trends across industries and key focus areas

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2025 Financial Services Outlooks
Explore key forces likely to impact the industry.
Leaders in the financial services industry are no strangers to a dynamic environment. But the pace of change is ratcheting up. From technology turbulence, to greater regulatory pressure, and a high cost of capital, current trends will require leaders to be more agile than ever.

Banking & Capital Markets: As the industry adapts to a low-growth, lower-rate environment, leaders will reinforce their foundations for sustainable growth with ingenuity and discipline.

Commercial Real Estate: Turning the corner to capitalize on a generational opportunity, leaders who plan for change could be best positioned to succeed.

Insurance: As industry operating models evolve, the future of insurance will focus on agility, innovation, and customers to help navigate complexities and meet new demands.

Investment Management: Navigating fast-paced change, elevated risk, and outsized opportunity, once in a generation potential for industry differentiation may emerge.

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Consumer
What factors are likely to shape consumer companies in 2024 and beyond?
Deloitte industry leaders explore trends expected to impact the industry, share insights on strategies to consider, and look ahead to growth opportunities in the coming year.

Retail, Wholesale, & Distribution: As retailers look to woo price-sensitive consumers in 2024, loyalty will have to be earned. Explore three key opportunities to grow trust and consumer loyalty.

Consumer Products:As retailers and consumers begin pushing back on increased prices, companies that aspire to Profitable Grower status in 2024 should consider profitable volume. Dive into a profitable volume playbook and learn winning strategies to drive growth.

Travel and Hospitality: After more than two years of consistent year-over-year gains, leisure travel may have tapped all of its pent-up demand from the peak pandemic years. Is US travel demand due for a correction? Our outlook explores signals of the strength of travel demand.

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Energy, Resources, and Industrials
2025 Energy, Resources, and Industrials Outlooks
Explore the key trends likely to impact the aerospace and defense, chemical, manufacturing, engineering and construction, oil and gas, power and utilities, and renewable energy sectors in 2025 in our latest energy, resources, and industrials outlooks.
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Government and Education
GOVERNMENT AND TECH TRENDS 2023
The technologies that enhance our organizations and our lives are more powerful—and more essential—than ever before. Forward-thinking organizations, including governments, understand the technological forces that surround them and look for ways to harness them for the benefit of citizens and constituents alike.

Tech Trends 2023: A Government Perspective: Through the stories of pioneering organizations, we note what’s happening now across all governments at the Federal and state level, highlight new technologies and approaches that stand to become the norm within 18 to 24 months, and project where the trends could be headed next during the coming decade.

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Life Sciences and Health Care
Navigating the biggest global trends
From emerging technologies like generative AI to constant changes in the workforce, there are several factors that will impact the life sciences and health care industry in 2024. Deloitte’s 2024 life sciences and health care industry outlooks take a deeper look at the trends and how to help your company position itself for growth.
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Technology, Media, and Telecommunications
Areas for growth in 2024
Deloitte leaders share their perspectives on the trends expected to shape the industry and the biggest opportunities in the year ahead.

Technology: How can technology companies position themselves for a robust and resilient future? Our 2024 technology industry outlook examines recent challenges in the industry, a renewed focus on growth and innovation, and key considerations for tech leaders in the year ahead.

Semiconductor:Led by generative AI, chip sales look to bounce back in 2024—but geopolitics could complicate growth in the semiconductor industry. Learn more about trends and predictions for the year ahead in our 2024 semiconductor industry outlook.

Telecom: This year’s telecommunications outlook reveals a shifting landscape that may challenge communications service providers (CSPs) but could also present opportunities. Their strategies and investments today could determine their success—or failure—tomorrow.

Sports: As the global sports industry continues to navigate a period of massive transformation, our 2024 outlook explores five trends sports organizations are expected to face in the coming year. This includes the changing economics of sports, use cases for generative artificial intelligence (AI), the future of mega-events, investments in fan data, and the potential for a “new normal” in college athletics.

Media & entertainment: What trends will define the future of media and entertainment? For our 2024 outlook, we’re diving into the rise of gaming, AI, and user-generated content—releasing a new chapter for each trend. Explore key strategies and considerations to navigate—and succeed in—the future of the industry.

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2024 Financial Services Regulatory Outlook
Preparing for compliance amid a more dynamic regulatory landscape
2024 is expected to yield new regulatory changes for the financial services industry. Explore our financial services outlook collection to see what regulations could affect your enterprise.

Banking Regulatory: After a tumultuous 2023, US banking regulators have set forth an ambitious agenda for 2024, including significant proposed changes to capital, resolution planning, consumer compliance, and supervision, among many others.

Capital Markets Regulatory: The arrival of active capital markets rulemaking, surveillance, and enforcement created regulatory shifts in 2023—and 2024 is expected to follow in its footsteps

Insurance Regulatory: The future of regulatory compliance for the insurance industry will require leaders to find balance between opportunity and obligation.

Investment Management Regulatory: The wave of upcoming new regulations means that investment management leaders must stay current on the latest compliance demands.

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Mergers and Acquisitions
Will the M&A market remain strong in 2024?
See what Deloitte leaders predict for deals in the year ahead.

Banking & capital markets M&A: Between inflation, interest rate hikes, and geopolitical conflict, 2023 saw muted M&A activity across banking and its subsectors. Plan for the year ahead with insights from our M&A outlook, and keep your capital and playbooks ready as we dive into 2024, because volatility can sometimes be a friend.

Insurance M&A: In the world of insurance M&A, 2023 was a sleepy year. Although many insurance companies and investors used the time to rebalance their portfolios, fewer transactions took place. Explore trends and insights from across the insurance sector that can help your business better position itself to catch incoming opportunities.

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Human Capital Trends
The social enterprise in a world disrupted
Deloitte’s 2023 Global Human Capital Trends survey polled 10,000 business and HR leaders across every industry, with 105 countries participating. The survey data is complemented by interviews with executives from some of today’s leading organizations. The insights shaped the trends in this report.

Human Capital Trends: COVID-19 proved that people and organizations are capable of tremendous growth under the pressure of a crisis. The challenge for many will be to sustain that momentum to discover new ways to thrive in the long term, even as disruption constantly resets the path forward.

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Tech Trends
The technology forces shaping tomorrow
Deloitte’s 14th annual Tech Trends report explores the impact of emerging technologies on groundbreaking innovations and foundational business areas. Stories of pioneering organizations show what’s happening now, describe what’s new, and project what could be coming next.

Tech Trends: Our annual report continues to look across all sectors and geographies for glimpses of pioneering leaders and organizations building distinct facets of the future, today. The report focuses on six macro technology forces - interaction, information, computation, the business of technology, cyber and trust, and core modernization. Explore how these forces will affect businesses in the next 18 to 24 months and beyond.

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