Future systems
December 3, 2018
December 3, 2018
Technology is changing faster than ever. Applications are merging with data and infrastructure, moving outside the enterprise and evolving into systems, embedding themselves deeply into our daily lives.
These blurring boundaries are transforming the very nature of human-machine relationships and fundamentally changing our understanding of enterprise IT. Applications, data, and infrastructure are evolving into living systems—with people at their center. It’s a seismic shift for most organizations, both technologically and culturally.
Accenture’s latest report, Future Systems, explores these IT trends in detail. It describes the innovation achievement gap they’re creating for many organizations. It explains the new thinking required to bridge the gap and scale innovation—driven by experimentation, agility, resilience, and an evolved workforce. And it digs into the nature of what it means to build successful future systems and outperform in a world where nothing stands still.
"Only by understanding thriving future systems can companies scale innovation and maximize value."
– BHASKAR GHOSH, Group Chief Executive – Accenture Technology Services
The breakneck pace of change creates new challenges as well as new opportunities. Applications and infrastructure built for another era, together with patchwork ways of working, are limiting companies’ ability to innovate at scale. Data quality issues are hindering innovation in the effective use of artificial intelligence (AI) and workforces are too often tied to the technologies of yesterday.
The big risk? Without fundamental change, unlocking growth through collaboration and innovation remains forever out of reach.
85%
of executives agree the strength and impact of ecosystem relationships will rest on their supporting technology.
“Accenture Technology Vision 2018 Survey,” Accenture, February 14, 2018
97%
of business decisions use data that managers think is low quality.
“Only 3% of Companies’ Data Meets Basic Quality Standards,” Harvard Business Review, September 11, 2017
There are three fundamental characteristics of thriving future systems that can change forever how we work and live:
"It’s time to start thinking of applications, infrastructure, and employees as interconnected systems, rather than discrete standalone entities."
– PAUL DAUGHERTY, Chief Technology and Innovation Officer
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