Technology Vision 2023 | When Atoms meet Bits #TechVision Think about some of the biggest challenges facing This is the urgency. The problems enterprises enterprises today: a global labor realignment; supply are most affected by today are ones they are not chain disruptions; misinformation; mounting pressure yet equipped to solve. Yesterday’s strategies and from customers and governments for more sustainable technologies are proving to not be enough to solutions; a growing cyberthreat landscape. These overcome the grand challenges enterprises are problems are top of mind for every executive, but starting to stare down. Building a shared reality importantly, they are fundamentally different from the of atoms and bits is the necessary path to start problems of the past. These are massively interlocked tackling new problems in new ways. Technology problems, with numerous dimensions and a multitude has always risen to meet the needs of the time, and of different partners and stakeholders at play. now the challenges we face are bigger than any one company alone. It’s time to start forging the tools to Port delays and labor shortages across the food 昀椀x them, together. service industry are impacting the bottom line for food suppliers.25, 26 52% of companies have supply chain Think about sustainability. Environmental impact partners that have been impacted by ransomware.27 is one of the most pressing grand challenges And enterprises are poised to feel the impacts of that companies and the world face today, and climate change, even if they are managing to avoid increasingly more companies are eager to be part them today. In August 2022, for instance, companies of the solution. Though despite their eagerness, in China’s Sichuan province were forced to shut down many risk still missing their targets.29 When shared factories making solar panels, cement, and more, after solutions are built, however, the future starts to a worsening drought caused hydropower reservoirs become much more attainable. Take Mango to run low.28 Is it conceivable that any enterprise could Materials. The renewable bioproducts startup solve even one of these alone? Of course not. collaborated with researchers around the world to
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