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In search of cloud value: Can generative AI transform cloud ROI?
New ROI analysis highlights what it takes to capture the value of cloud computing, and what role generative AI can play. Established companies face a quandary as they look to exploit cloud: as attractive as the benefits may be, the scale of change and investments required to adopt cloud platforms make generating an attractive return on investment (ROI) a challenge. But generative AI may significantly shift that value equation.
Resoluções de ano novo em tecnologia para 2023
Os líderes da McKinsey Tecnologia oferecem seus insights sobre como os líderes empresariais podem tirar máximo proveito da tecnologia este ano. Estamos na época das resoluções de ano novo. Ainda que isso possa trazer à mente tentativas não muito exitosas de fazer mais exercícios ou perder peso, as resoluções em tecnologia são essenciais para as empresas que queiram transitar melhor pelas incertezas de 2023.
Projecting the global value of cloud: $3 trillion is up for grabs for companies that go beyond adoption
Large enterprises are getting serious about adopting cloud. They aspire to have roughly 60 percent of their environment in the cloud by 2025. Given the scale of this aspiration, business and technology executives are asking themselves: How big is the value at stake in my industry? How quickly will value be captured, and who will capture it? What can I do to make sure my company captures more than its fair share of the value?
Projecting the global value of cloud: $3 trillion is up for grabs for companies that go beyond adoption
New research reveals where value in the cloud lies—and details scenarios that highlight that cloud adoption alone isn’t enough. Large enterprises are getting serious about adopting cloud. They aspire to have roughly 60 percent of their environment in the cloud by 2025. Given the scale of this aspiration, business and technology executives are asking themselves: How big is the value at stake in my industry? How quickly will value be captured, and who will capture it?
It’s cloud time for boards--in seven charts
Cloud will help organizations to both reduce IT costs and support innovation through powerful emerging technologies. By democratizing access to computational power and infrastructure, organizations and industries that previously were not highly competitive from a digital-technology standpoint, or that faced high entry barriers and start-up costs, could wield the resources to reshape their product and competitive landscapes.
It’s cloud time for boards—in seven charts
These seven charts can help boards shape their business’s cloud strategy. Few companies are unaware of the potential benefits of cloud. Far fewer, however, have captured them at scale. For companies looking to increase their speed of innovation, the efficiency of their IT, and the business value their technology generates, finding the formula to unlock cloud’s value is paramount.
It’s cloud time for boards—in seven charts
These seven charts can help boards shape their business’s cloud strategy. Few companies are unaware of the potential benefits of cloud. Far fewer, however, have captured them at scale. For companies looking to increase their speed of innovation, the efficiency of their IT, and the business value their technology generates, finding the formula to unlock cloud’s value is paramount.
Four ways boards can shape the cloud agenda
With the mounting evidence of cloud’s ability to drive significant business value, more and more companies are considering cloud’s role in fundamentally reshaping the competitive posture of their business (see sidebar, “Business value of cloud”). Yet, across interviews with almost 40 different boards, only 13 percent were actively thinking about and engaging in conversations around cloud. For one-third of these boards, cloud has never been considered important enough to discuss at all.
Four ways boards can shape the cloud agenda
Cloud can become an important source of strategic advantage for businesses. It’s time for boards to get involved. With the mounting evidence of cloud’s ability to drive significant business value, more and more companies are considering cloud’s role in fundamentally reshaping the competitive posture of their business (see sidebar, “Business value of cloud”).
Unlocking value: Four lessons in cloud sourcing and consumption
Cloud adoption is no longer a question of “if” but of “how fast” and “to what extent.” Between 2015 and 2020, the revenue of the big-three public cloud providers (AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform) has quintupled, and they have more than tripled their capital-expenditures investment to meet increasing demand. And enterprises are ever more open to cloud platforms: more than 90 percent of enterprises reported using cloud technology in some way.
Unlocking value: Four lessons in cloud sourcing and consumption
Companies that are successful in sourcing and managing the consumption of cloud adopt a more dynamic, analytical, and demand-driven mindset. Cloud adoption is no longer a question of “if” but of “how fast” and “to what extent.” Between 2015 and 2020, the revenue of the big-three public cloud providers (AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform) has quintupled, and they have more than tripled their capital-expenditures investment to meet increasing demand.
Why the global pandemic makes cloud computing more important than ever
If you are a CEO, you already know what the cloud can do for your business in a post-COVID-19 world. You’ve probably even told your organization to get you there already. So why is your move to the cloud 1 coming along so slowly, even though you may have been talking about it for years? It might be because you and your management team have yet to take a sufficiently active role, or provide the air cover your chief information officer (CIO) and chief technology officer (CTO) need.
Former UNC Chancellor Holden Thorp named editor-in-chief of Science magazine
Former UNC Chancellor Holden Thorp has been named the new editor-in-chief of Science Magazine, a family of journals. “This is one of the absolute prized jobs in American science,” Thorp said. “To lead a publication that is the most influential scientific journal in the world and also has a news operation that is a national treasure.” Thorp said it was impossible to let the opportunity pass, understanding the honor that comes with being the head of a publication as nationally revered as Science.
Powerful Scenes From the Youth Climate March
On Friday, the children refused to go to school. London, the capital of one of the most powerful countries of the world, was confronted by a far greater power: the raw energy of its children claiming their right for a future free from drought, floods, exploitation and food shortages. Tens of thousands of young people in 30 countries, including Britain, took to the streets to demand action on climate change from global and local leaders.
Invest in technology for innovation, not productivity
Will Forrest and Kara Sprague, McKinsey partners, spoke recently at the Cloud Connect conference about the need for companies to focus on technology investments that innovate business models, not improve IT productivity. Will Forrest and Kara Sprague, McKinsey partners, spoke recently at the Cloud Connect conference. Cloud technology has become a big buzz word and it's a new technology that corporations are actively adopting.
Invest in technology for innovation, not productivity
Will Forrest and Kara Sprague, McKinsey partners, spoke recently at the Cloud Connect conference about the need for companies to focus on technology investments that innovate business models, not improve IT productivity. Will Forrest and Kara Sprague, McKinsey partners, spoke recently at the Cloud Connect conference. Cloud technology has become a big buzz word and it's a new technology that corporations are actively adopting.
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