New Research from Accenture Finds that Digital Core Investments Accelerate Reinvention and Innovation, Delivering up to 60% Higher Revenue Growth Rates and 40% Boost in Profit
2024年7月17日 - 8:59PM
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Investments in digital core technology pave the
way for businesses to thrive amid change and capture the value of
generative AI
New research from Accenture (NYSE: ACN) finds that organizations
with an advanced digital core, investments in strategic innovation
and a balanced approach to their technical debt achieved 60% higher
revenue growth rate and 40% higher profits.
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New research from Accenture finds that
organizations with an advanced digital core, investments in
strategic innovation and a balanced approach to their technical
debt achieved 60% higher revenue growth rate and 40% higher
profits. (Graphic: Business Wire)
“Continuous reinvention is now the default strategy because of
the pace of change. Organizations are trying to figure out how
technology impacts their business operations, especially amid new
advancements like generative AI," said Karthik Narain, group chief
executive of Technology at Accenture. "Capturing value from
disruptive technologies with an industry-leading digital core is
more than a critical success factor, it’s a survival factor. A
strong digital core is essential to be ready for reinvention and
rapidly seize every new opportunity.”
For the report, “Reinventing with a Digital Core,” Accenture
analyzed findings from 1,500 technology executives in 19 industries
across 10 countries. Accenture’s research revealed that an advanced
digital core is necessary to help enterprises build the technology
capabilities needed to be ready for ongoing reinvention across the
business. This requires using the right mix of cloud-first
infrastructure and corresponding practices for agility and
innovation, data and AI for differentiation, applications and
platforms to accelerate growth, next-generation experiences and
optimized operations—with security at every level.
Accenture’s research also identified AI as a top contributor to
technical debt—the cost and effort required to keep IT systems up
to date and capable of meeting business needs, accumulated through
choices that prioritize speed over long-term maintainability. 41%
of executives cite AI as a top-three contributor, tied with
applications/platforms. Conversely, AI can also be used to manage
and mitigate tech debt, along with new ways of designing systems.
Traditionally, this mostly came from legacy code, outdated
technologies, and a lack of documentation, but the rapid adoption
of AI is adding new technical debt.
Accenture's study outlines three fundamental tenets to achieve a
digital core that’s reinvention ready. When these three tenets are
adopted concurrently, businesses can experience considerable
rewards, attaining up to 60% higher revenue growth rates and 40%
boost in profits.
1. Build an advanced digital core, tailored to specific
industry needs: Accenture’s research shows that companies need
to achieve an "industry-leading" level of digital core capability
to empower continuous reinvention. While the journey may seem
complex, Accenture’s survey found that improving one
capability—like data—can trigger automatic improvements in others.
For this reason, companies should first assess where they are
across their digital core capabilities, then prioritize “no-regret”
moves based on areas of need. This will catalyze a virtuous cycle
of continuous improvements across the digital core.
2. Boost investments in strategic innovation, including
re-engineering systems for machine (AI) operations: Companies
should monitor the rate at which they increase the proportion of
their IT spend on innovation, as opposed to operations, as a key
performance indicator. Accenture’s research found that a
year-over-year increase of at least 6% is necessary to be
reinvention ready. Additional budget can be found when companies
reduce inefficiencies with actions such as joining vendors for
guidance, optimizing cloud costs and operationalizing automation.
Companies can use the resulting discretionary funds to redesign
business processes, launch new products and services and enter new
markets. Pre-integrated solutions from ecosystem marketplaces
provide a starting point. Ultimately, companies need a digital core
designed for both humans and machines so both can interact
seamlessly with each other and create value through intention—not
instruction—driven workflows for business processes. The more
immediate focus should be to re-engineer systems for machine
learning and AI operations.
3. Balance technical debt with investments for the future,
using programmatic and autonomous methods: Accenture’s analysis
shows that about 15% of IT budgets should be allocated to
remediating technical debt, ensuring the maintenance of evergreen
IT capabilities. This is the sweet spot—both higher and lower
allocations are not optimal—to balance debt reduction with future
investments. Maintaining evergreen IT requires a commitment to
continuous updates, upgrades and management of software, hardware
and services. Programmatic version control systems can be used to
update configuration settings for infrastructure following changes
to the code. This method brings more automation, flexibility and
integration capabilities to reduce future technical debt.
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About the research “Reinventing with a Digital Core”
research is based on survey responses from 1,500 C-suite IT
executives in 19 industries across 10 countries. We asked IT
leaders about the state of their technology stack, their business
landscape and financial and operational performance. We
triangulated the quantitative findings of the survey with
qualitative research, specifically through 20 in-depth interviews
and 26 case studies.
About Accenture Accenture is a leading global
professional services company that helps the world’s leading
businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital
core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and
enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and
scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with
approximately 750,000 people serving clients in more than 120
countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are
one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with
strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in
technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched
industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery
capability. We are uniquely able to deliver tangible outcomes
because of our broad range of services, solutions and assets across
Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and
Song. These capabilities, together with our culture of shared
success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help
our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We
measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients,
each other, our shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at
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