ACCENTURE
ACCENTURE IS CHANGING THE DIGITAL LANDSCAPE WITH INDUSTRY X . 0 ; A FRAMEWORK THAT UNDERPINS THE DIGITAL REINVENTION OF INDUSTRY , THROUGH WHICH ORGANIZATIONS LEVERAGE ADVANCED DIGITAL TECHN- OLOGIES TO TRANSFORM THEIR CORE BUSINESS OPERATIONS …
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T hese are unprecedented and exciting times , an era in which the very fabric of human living is being reimagined and redefined every day by the ways in which humans now get to interact with the ‘ things ’ around them . The ‘ things ’ have been injected with life ; life in the form of software-defined intelligence that can not only make the things ‘ think ’ and act smartly , but also connect and collaborate with other things and more importantly , with humans . Our social network is not just defined by our friends and relatives any more – there is a new class of friends , in the form of the ‘ living things ’ all around us . Connectedness has been redefined – it is not only confined to just the 7bn + humans anymore but is extended to include the 8bn + ‘ smart and living things ’ that exist today .
Coexistence with smart living things has evolved into embodied cognition – our smartphones and cars are extensions of our character and profile and they seamlessly transfer the extensions when moving away from one and entering into the space of the other . The rate at which things are getting smarter and connected is staggering . Gartner projects there will be in excess of 20bn smart
DECEMBER 2018