{"id":7941,"date":"2019-10-09T10:37:33","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T09:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acora2021arch.wpengine.com\/?p=7941"},"modified":"2024-05-24T14:53:39","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T14:53:39","slug":"microsoft-future-decoded-2019-ai-ai-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acora.s.nomatter.dev\/nl\/news\/archive\/microsoft-future-decoded-2019-ai-ai-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Future Decoded 2019 \u2013 AI, AI &#038; AI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This week I had the pleasure of attending Microsoft\u2019s Future Decoded event at the ExCel in London.<br>It is one of Microsoft\u2019s biggest annual events, bringing its partners and customers up to date with what the future holds in the world of Microsoft.<br><br>Right from the beginning of the morning keynote, Microsoft was positioning how important AI is going to be for businesses in the very near future. Their research found that 56% of organisations are already using AI today and that organisations outperform their competitors by 11% if they use AI. Impressive.<br><br>Microsoft was also strongly pushing collaboration within businesses. You\u2019re probably thinking they were pushing Teams, right? Wrong. Microsoft was very keen on staff coming together, collaborating to transform their business. Companies that empower their employees to accelerate their <a href=\"https:\/\/acora.com\/our-services\/professional-services\/\">\u2018digital transformation\u2019<\/a> to the cloud. Businesses don\u2019t need to reinvent themselves or start from scratch; they just need to work with their employees to understand how the cloud can create efficiencies for them.<br><br>One example of this was East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Trust, where the CTO worked closely with not just their IT team, but their Nurses, to reduce Nurse\u2019s admin time from 30 minutes to 10 minutes per patient, all through embracing the cloud. That\u2019s incredible. A great example of what moving to the cloud, with collaboration within the business and the mindset to want to improve processes, can do to improve patient care &#8211; the heart and soul of the NHS.<br><br>In terms of AI, I personally think a lot of businesses are either behind the curve or haven\u2019t started yet. Microsoft\u2019s 56% claim seems quite high in my opinion. It certainly appeared that way in the sessions I attended, where the question asked was \u201c<em>Has your business started to think about AI yet?<\/em>\u201d and only one or two hands were raised in a room of roughly 100, each time. I don\u2019t see this as a problem, but businesses certainly need to start thinking about their digital transformation to ensure they remain \u2018relevant\u2019.<br><br>Avaya, we\u2019ve all heard of them, right?. Their market cap is currently over $1bn. Avaya has been around for over 25 years since it was spun out of AT&amp;T. I expect you\u2019ve also heard of Zoom. Zoom decided to transform and innovate their business and reach out to the market that Avaya was not targeting and now their market cap is $27bn. That\u2019s staggering for a company that was only founded in 2011.<br><br>Companies need to think about how their business can transform and successfully adopt the cloud to ensure they stay competitive, and don\u2019t lose out to their rivals. One of the quotes I noted was \u201c<em>Stop talking about culture change. Fix funding, governance and procurement first<\/em>\u201d which I thought was a powerful message to send to businesses. For the culture to change, you need to ensure the business is ready, there is a tech adoption plan, along with having the right people and funding to be able to achieve the market impact your competitors weren\u2019t expecting.<br><br>To summarise, don\u2019t focus solely on tech and talent. Aligning the culture, the structure of the business and the ways of working are all crucially important to successfully adopting AI in your business. Understand what you are going to do with the technology, reach out to your IT partners and ensure they understand what you are aiming to do, follow the value chain of your business and look at the operations of your business to see what could be achieved using AI.<br><br>But it\u2019s also okay that you\u2019re not quite looking into AI yet, you still have time\u2026. if you start soon.<br><br>For more information about digital transformation, <a href=\"\/contact-us\/\">feel free to contact us.<\/a> We&#8217;re happy to help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Contributor: Mark Summers, Technical Systems Engineer at Acora<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week I had the pleasure of attending Microsoft\u2019s Future Decoded event at the ExCel in London.It is one of Microsoft\u2019s biggest annual events, bringing its partners and customers up to date with what the future holds in the world&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":10707,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"full-width-single-post.blade.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.5 (Yoast SEO v27.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Microsoft Future Decoded 2019 \u2013 AI, AI &amp; 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