Covid positive: the technological setback of the pandemic

David Nugent, CEO of Next League. Su recent e-book Zero Sales discusses the progression of profits and partnerships for generation companies.

We are all so tired of Covid-19 and the havoc it has wreaked on our lives that it is disrespectful to explore or talk about positive things that have emerged from the pandemic (colloquially, “Covid Positive”). review the advances in generation seen through the Covid-19 lens, being aware of the pain and loss suffered by so many people.

As horrific as the number of Covid-19 lives is, companies’ record would have been much worse without the virtual technologies they deserve. Discussions about the importance of “virtual transformation” have been going on for decades, yet the Covid-19 pandemic has greatly accelerated the speed at which corporations are creating virtual products and services. A McKinsey report

As impressive as it sounds, the time it has taken many businesses to respond directly to Covid-19 is even more impressive. The same McKinsey report found that respondents’ companies acted 40 times faster than they expected when they came to forcing remote boxes. People estimated that “it would have taken more than a year to put into effect the point of remote cadres that the crisis took position. It actually took an average of 11 days. “

Many U. S. corporations. The U. S. has been tapping into the skill pool in Eastern Europe for years, with primary technology skills centers located in Russia, Ukraine, Poland, and Belarus. Gartner estimates that there are more than one million IT professionals in this region. The acceleration of Covid-19 remote work has ushered in an era of acceptance that the skill can be living anywhere in the world. As Covid-19 progressed, companies have become more comfortable moving more of their generation workload to this region, finding that the point of superior skill and related prices were lower. In fact, this acceptance of remote paintings has “flattened the earth. “

However, this Covid-driven generation migration has led to an accumulation in the call for talent, as has the position of that talent. With the narrowing of the cargo hole, many American companies, adding mine, are now exploring features in the West. Hemisphere, where time differences and language barriers are less pronounced. Regional instability in Eastern Europe has only accelerated this trend.

Covid-19 has also replaced the way we live and function as millions of consumers rushed online as the pandemic unfolded. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) found that the web has noticed that its use increases between 40% and 100%, while calling as Zoom have noticed that its use has increased tenfold.

In a 2018 article, the Pew Research Center quoted former Wired magazine founder Louis Rossetto as saying, “The digital generation is so broad that it encompasses almost everything. No product is manufactured. Array no one movesArray nothing is collected, analyzed or communicated without some “digital”. generation” being an integral component of it. This has only become more true in the years that followed.

As citizens, we will have to ask ourselves whether the comfort of generation is a smart compromise to live with the prospect of a surveillance state that many already exist. A growing proximity between big tech and government deserves to make us all a little uncomfortable.

However, as business leaders, our truth is that we will continue to depend more than ever on generation. Our choice is to invest to keep pace with the generation or stay behind.

Whether the pandemic has been good for business or not depends on the industry you’re in. Millions of other people in live games and events have lost their livelihoods or suffered terrible financial losses. Movie theater chains, restaurants and other businesses that have consumers in their institutions have also suffered. On the other hand, the pandemic has resulted in record calls and profits for Amazon (profits soared 220%), allowing us to shop in person, and Netflix (16 million new subscribers as of the first quarter of 2020), which entertained us at home.

In big tech, the numbers for 2021 were staggering. Apple’s profit rose to more than $350 billion, only about $100 billion of its 2020 profit. Google generated $257 billion in profit, a 40% increase over 2020. Even Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, surpassed $100 billion in profits for the first time, despite historic losses that followed its first user decline.

While many corporations have suffered heavy losses, I Covid-19, as an accelerator of virtual transformation, has been perfect for both short-term earnings expansion and long-term strategic positioning. This is especially true for healthy corporations that are rarely less motivated. to invest in technology.

For many years, I have been running generation facility corporations focused on the freedom presented through generation. Since the early 2000s, I have had a globally distributed workforce and a corporate culture focused on skill rather than geographic location. very vital, and promoted within the existing Next League organization, in my opinion, emerging culture is both a philosophy and a physical presence.

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