A recent Accenture report found that just 7% of organizations can be considered'future-ready'. I ... [ ] spoke with Manish Sharma, Group Chief Exec of Accenture Operations, about what this means for the near future of work and promoting human potential. Business leaders have been banging the drum of digital transformation for some time now, but some have galvanized that enthusiasm into practice much more effectively than most. In fact, according to a recent Accenture report, 7% of organizations (considered'future-ready') are around twice as efficient and three times as profitable as their peers. So how have these companies shot so far ahead of the rest, and what does this mean for organizational structures and employment as we transition into a more digitized future?

Are you ready for it? According to Accenture, only 7% of organizations today have made the necessary investments in data science and AI to be considered "future-ready," and they will reap enormous rewards from the work they have put in (even with COVID-19). But the good news is the system integrator sees a rising tide of all boats thanks to data and AI in the future. In its new report, titled "Fast Track to Future-Ready Performance," Accenture surveyed 1,100 executives in 11 countries and 13 industries to gauge how their digital transformation journeys correlate with use of emerging technologies, like AI, analytics, cloud, blockchain, and robotic process automation (RPA). Accenture found that, three years ago, about four in five organizations fell in the bottom half of the spectrum.