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TECH MAHINDRA ’ S CTO Atul Kunwar says that in his experience , contrary to the popular urban myth that it ’ s the traditional technological powerbases who are driving the evolution towards cloud-connected business , it is in fact some of the newer wave countries which are at the forefront of this latest push .
“ I ’ ve been surprised by some of the ones who are taking the lead , the ones driving the evolution to the next level are ones that didn ’ t participate in the last generation – coming from new places , Asia-Pacific in particular ,” he says . “ Stuff is happening there in a very big way . I would say the same about Africa and Latin America . It ’ s not just limited to the US .
“ In Asia , one of the things we ’ re seeing very clearly is the adoption of cloud and solutions that help them leapfrog their competition – that ’ s taking root in a very big way . People are willing to experiment , they want things implemented faster and they want benefit from whatever collective learning has happened across the years .
“ It ’ s not about trying to define the process and put one thing in after another , it ’ s about putting
things in place and then creatively improving upon them .”
That ’ s clearly a given , and obviously in a technology environment creativity is one of the vital ingredients that human ingenuity can bring to the party and one which cannot be readily automated .
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What brought Kunwar to conclude that it is in fact Asia , which is taking the lead globally in terms of adopting and implementing cloud-based solutions , is the work he ’ s done over the past 12 months getting a core team in place which will enable enterprises to
20 August 2017