Over the past year, companies unable to properly embrace digital technologies lost 15% in foregone annual revenue, a study from Accenture finds. This is one of the takeaways from a study based on data from 8,300 organizations, published by Accenture, which sought to document the financial impact of technology adoption. Ghosh and his co-authors identified the top 10% of achievers from their study, and found they have several traits in common. “Even more revealing, before implementing AI, leaders set up complementary technologies such as data lakes and cloud services. Eighty-three percent of leaders agree “that it’s important to decouple data from legacy infrastructure, compared with only 37% of laggards.

Source: Forbes October 07, 2019 21:56 UTC