Deloitte released the “United States future cloud investigation report”. The survey found that 90 per cent of respondents agreed or fully agreed that clouds, combined with other technologies such as manual intelligence, material networking and analysis, could serve as “power multipliers” for their digital strategies. Overall, the respondents considered that clouds brought positive results to business through a range of key measures, including reducing operational and regulatory risks (83 per cent), establishing new product/service net income (80 per cent), expanding new markets (74 per cent), providing better sustainability in support of environmental issues (72 per cent), etc.

In addition, as part of the analysis, Deloitte divides business into four categories on how to respond to issues related to strategy and innovation: leaders (29 per cent), facilitators (22 per cent), moderates (35 per cent) and hopers (14 per cent). The survey found that there were significant variations in these categories, but all showed some key trends:

Positive results have been overwhelmingly promoted, but strategic, technological and innovation gaps persist;

Leading enterprises use clouds as multipliers to maximize investment value;

Yumkiya has brought considerable strategic value, but targeted investment has led to greater strategic innovation.

Innovative gaps

Deloitation analysis shows that there is an average of 14.5 percentage points between business priorities presented by business and what they describe as performances for innovation in these industries. According to the Deloitte Survey, the three most important operational strategic objectives of the interviewees were to improve efficiency and responsiveness; develop new ideas, methodologies and reduce or optimize costs.

However, the results of the survey indicate that these three priority areas are not necessarily the cause of successful and innovative results for most enterprises.