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As an industry, if you’re just focused on digital, you can get left behind. DARQ is the new SMAC (social, mobile, analytics, cloud). If everybody is doing the same omni-channel digital work, how do you differentiate yourself going forward? We have come up with distributed ledgers, artificial intelligence, extended reality, and quantum computing, or DARQ, as the new stack of tech for today’s world. About 94% of organisations say they are doing digital and $1.1 trillion is spent on digital transformation. The commentary suggests a fair degree of AI-readiness among IT firms, but along with that, the lines of differentiation are blurring. AI has emerged as the holy grail of digital transformation.
In an interview with TOI, Daugherty says if you look at AI as an impact on bottom line and cost, you would miss the opportunity - the big impact of AI would be on top line and growth. He says artificial intelligence (AI) is an integral part of the new tech stack. MUMBAI: Paul Daugherty, chief technology & innovation officer in Accenture, the world’s fastest growing major IT services company, says we are entering a post-digital world where a new stack of technologies is becoming relevant and where building trust is becoming crucial.
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