Signal 81% report geopolitical and economic threats to 2025 technology investment

Summary

This signal quantifies the downside of volatility for technology budgets. In IBM's executive survey, 81% said geopolitical and economic issues put their technology investments at risk during 2025. Close to half expect that pressure to grow in 2026. IBM uses these numbers to show that the threat of being knocked off course is real, which is why it says organisations must move from reacting to anticipating. The same section balances the picture with a majority who also see new opportunity in the turbulence, so the finding frames uncertainty as a two-sided condition that investment planning has to absorb.