How tech-savvy organizations are outperforming their peers during the pandemic

Q4 Business, Management and Accounting

Strategy and Leadership Pub Date : 2021-05-14 DOI:10.1108/SL-02-2021-0018

Jean-Stéphane Payraudeau, Anthony Marshall, Dencik Jacob, Rachna Handa

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PurposeExecutives surveyed by the IBM Institute for Business Value indicated that they are dramatically accelerating their company’s digital transformation during the pandemic. And fully two-thirds said that the pandemic has allowed them to advance specific transformation initiatives that previously had encountered resistance.Design/methodology/approachTo better guide others seeking to make the transformation, the researchers looked at which technologies make a difference between high performing and struggling businesses in this period of extraordinary change and challenges.FindingsThe “technology mix” recipe for success is changing. Increasingly, cloud and AI are becoming performance differentiators. Not only does technology adoption vary greatly across industries, but the relationship between technology adoption and financial performance varied significantly among industries.Practical implicationsCloud has become a more important contributor to revenue performance during the pandemic in 11 of the industries analyzedOriginality/valueTech-savvy organizations outperformed their peers in revenue growth across the 12 industries where technology acted as a performance differentiator.

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在疫情期间，精通技术的组织如何超越同行

IBM商业价值研究院调查的高管们表示，在疫情期间，他们正在大幅加快公司的数字化转型。整整三分之二的人表示，大流行使他们能够推进以前遇到阻力的具体转型举措。设计/方法/方法为了更好地指导其他寻求转型的人，研究人员研究了在这个异常变化和挑战的时期，哪些技术可以区分表现优异的企业和苦苦挣扎的企业。成功的“技术组合”配方正在改变。云计算和人工智能正日益成为性能差异化因素。不仅不同行业的技术采用率差异很大，而且技术采用率与财务绩效之间的关系在不同行业之间也存在显著差异。实际意义在本次分析的11个行业中，在疫情期间，云计算已成为营收表现的更重要贡献者。在12个行业中，精通技术的企业在营收增长方面的表现优于同行，在这些行业中，技术是业绩差异化因素。

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