• Forrester rolled out an AI Disruption Model to gauge which technology and service markets will accelerate, reshape, or be disrupted.
• The framework covers 17 categories across more than 200 markets, using factors such as AI substitutability, labor intensity, switching costs.
• Infrastructure, data and AI, cybersecurity and identity were flagged as the only broad areas positioned for clear growth as AI scales.
• Labor-intensive knowledge-work services face the sharpest pressure, with AI expected to replace tasks across implementation, software development, creative work.
• Many enterprise software segments are expected to be reshaped rather than displaced, supported by embedded workflows, regulation, switching costs.

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