Why Accenture argues that although the enterprise AI cake is rising, it's going to take time to bake through
The reality that it is going to take some time to scale AI across the enterprise.
Accenture has been open about its AI ambitions and, with commendable transparency, the extent to which it has realized these over the past couple of years. So that eye-catching comment from CEO Julie Sweet in some ways comes as no surprise. But she goes on to provide some valuable context into the services giant’s overall AI thinking and what the firm is seeing from clients as a new pragmatism around adoption kicks in.
Accenture’s playbook here is, according to Sweet, “informed by the past, but accelerated”, by which she means:
Twice in the last 20 years, there's been an economic re-set in our industry. First, there was offshoring, made possible by the Internet and automation, offshoring drove down the cost of building software and routine IT services. In fact, at one point, there was...
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