2026 Trends: Data discipline, smart AI, and the death of the spreadsheet

By Rob Gilbert, Managing Director – Commercial & Infrastructure, Totalmobile
2025 has been a year of fast change, and most organisations across the commercial and infrastructure sectors are now well into their digitisation journey. But 2026 won’t be about adding more tech. It’ll be about making sense of the data we already have — and using it properly. The rise of the Chief Data OfficerThe biggest shift we’ll see in 2026 is the increasing presence of the Chief D