"Il 90% dei CEO ritiene che l'economia digitale avrà un impatto sul proprio settore, ma meno del 15% sta attuando una strategia digitale."
-MIT Sloan e Capgemini
"Siamo passati dall'essere i Flintstones ai Jetsons in 9 mesi".
-Dan Schulman, PayPal
*Entrambe le citazioni di cui sopra risalgono a prima del 2020.
I cambiamenti che molti avevano previsto per il 2030 sono arrivati un po' prima del previsto:
- Manufacturing: The average cost of a single hour of downtime for a manufacturer exceeds $100,000. Technology that performs the predictive maintenance of machinery is poised to soar according to Information Intelligence Consulting.
- Healthcare: McKinsey surveys show that while only 11% of U.S. residents used telehealth services in 2019, 76% are now interested in using these services going forward.
- Retail: According to 2PMInc., Whole Foods e-commerce has grown from 0% in 2016, to nearly 25% and accelerating in 2020. Retailers are adjusting rapidly to consumer demand and preferences.
- Financial Services/Payments: Mastercard reports that 45% of U.S. consumers prefer to shop at stores that have contactless Points of Sale (POS) according to a report by Mercator Advisory Group entitled “2020 Annual U.S. Debit Card Market Data Review.”
- Advanced Computing: In 2013, AWS earned revenues of just over 3 billion U.S. dollars, a number which has since ballooned and sits at over 35 billion U.S. dollars as of 2019.
- Industrial Real Estate / Logistics: As much as 50% of JLL’s leasing activity is predicted to come from e-commerce related real estate needs.
- Energy: The U.S. solar market will install nearly 100 GWdc of solar from 2021-2025, 42% more than was installed over the last five years according to Wood Mackenzie.
Il tempo del cambiamento è passato, il tempo dell'esecuzione è arrivato: adattiamoci, impariamo e lavoriamo per garantire che questi cambiamenti portino a una crescita positiva e a una maggiore qualità della vita per le nostre comunità.
-Kenny McDonald