ACCENTURE: "TECHNOLOGY VISION 2021".

Digital Report - immediate delivery to your email. Date of Publishing: 2021.No. of Pages: 107. Adaptability, innovation, connectedness—pick a metric and businesses asserted they were leaders in the space, ready for anything. But 2020 and the COVID-19 health and economic crisis cleared their rose-colored glasses, bringing a new reality into sharp focus: Inflexible work arrangements and operations. Fragile supply chains. Untrustworthy information. New customer needs. The pandemic and the resulting disruptions exposed the limitations of long-standing norms for how companies operate and how people live. Forced to recognize this deepening digital achievement gap, companies began to compress their decade-long transformation agendas into two to three-year plans. Leaders pivoted to focus on building a digital core that would allow them to simultaneously transform multiple parts of their enterprises and their talent. In essence, they began looking at technology as a saving grace in an unpredict