For many organizations a key to success is to strategically automate and streamline daily, routine tasks to focus on bigger, visionary goals.

Technology is advancing faster by the day, which means every decision must be weighed in the long term.

The challenge, though, is figuring out where to invest capital that freed up from those efficiencies, to build the best strategy for tomorrow.Some of the smartest growth areas include cloud development, robotics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and augmented and virtual reality.

In fact, 67% of workers want to use augmented reality/virtual reality tools at work, according to a study by Forrester Consulting sponsored by Dell EMC.

The area truly depends on where your organization is and, more importantly, where you, as an IT leader, want the organization to go.