1Introduction to AI/Cloud-enabled business transformation

DOI: 10.4324/9781003255529-1

The opportunity

The invention and deployment of new technologies have been providing organisations with competitive advantages, when they are successful, for many hundreds of years, and some would argue for many thousands of years. Early technologies seem very unexciting in today’s context, yet the same principles of technology-based advantages have existed for a long time. A very simple early example is the wheelbarrow, that gave its originators, some 2,000 years ago, significant productivity advantages, whether for commercial or military purposes, for efficiently distributing goods with higher productivity rather than simply carrying them. The ancient ...

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