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Despite CEOs' Strong Confidence in Their Technologies, Most Companies Are Facing Limited Growth Due to an ?Innovation Achievement Gap'


While a majority of CEOs express strong confidence in the effectiveness of their current information technology (IT) systems, most are struggling to achieve levels of innovation that drive growth and revenue, according to a global study by Accenture (NYSE: ACN).

"Your Legacy or Your Legend? A CEO's Guide to Getting the Most Out of New Technologies," is based on Accenture's largest enterprise IT study conducted to date, including survey data from more than 8,300 organizations across 20 countries and 885 CEOs.

The research, which analyzed the adoption of both mature and emerging technologies ? such as artificial intelligence (AI), cloud, blockchain, and extended reality ? found that just 10% of companies are making optimal technology investment and adoption decisions and realizing the full value of those investments. By adopting new technologies more aggressively and breaking down barriers to effectively scale innovation across their organizations, these leading companies are generating more than twice the rate of revenue growth than those on the lower end of the spectrum.

At the same time, the study found that 80% of CEOs believe they have the right technologies in place to innovate at scale, and 70% claim to be very knowledgeable of their organization's investments in innovation.

"Most companies are risking significant future revenue growth because of the gap between the potential and realized value of their technology investments," said Paul Daugherty, Accenture's chief technology and innovation officer. "Our report offers CEOs a new roadmap to help make strategic investments that narrow this innovation achievement gap and fuel higher growth."

As part of its study, Accenture identified five key factors ? or "PATHS" ? that distinguish the top 10% of companies from the rest:

"Companies that are not actively building enterprise-wide systems that are fully optimized for all of the rapidly-maturing technologies will find it difficult to catch up, and will see that reflected negatively in their financial performance," said James Wilson, managing director of Information Technology and Business Research at Accenture.

More information on "Your Legacy or Your Legend? A CEO's Guide to Getting the Most Out of New Technologies," including infographics, is available here. For additional information on Accenture's Davos research program, click here. Follow the conversation at Davos on Twitter with #AccentureAtDavos and #WEF20.

About the Research

"Your Legacy or Your Legend? A CEO's Guide to Getting the Most Out of New Technologies" is based on a survey of more than 8,300 organizations across 20 industries and 20 countries and was designed to help companies understand and close the innovation achievement gap, which is defined as the difference between potential and realized value from technology investments. The study scored companies on three important dimensions: technology adoption, depth of technology adoption, and organizational and cultural readiness. The report builds on Accenture's study, "Full Value. Full Stop. How to scale innovation and achieve full value with Future Systems," released in October 2019, which is also based on the same research.

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries and all business functions ? underpinned by the world's largest delivery network ? Accenture works at the intersection of business and technology to help clients improve their performance and create sustainable value for their stakeholders. With 505,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture drives innovation to improve the way the world works and lives. Visit us at www.accenture.com.

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