Gigabit December 2018

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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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