Reaching the era of pervasive intelligence requires interconnected and integrated infrastructure spanning local areas, campuses, and the wider geographies in which sectors and supply chains are situated. This is not currently the case and is limiting the realization of 5G+ and all its promise. Enterprises across the value chain need to mobilize, and governments need to work with industry to create the right frameworks for doing so.
Ecosystem enablement
Pervasive intelligence requires ecosystem federation and trusted data orchestration, with multiple partners and nodes, whether of devices or clouds, networked together. The EY 2021 CEO Imperative Study found data centricity and trust is paramount for future success, however only 34% of the respondents showed trust in their data and the role intelligent technologies can play to bridge that gap.
In pursuit of this objective, companies that harness external partnerships and ecosystems will generate significant value; according to the 2022 EY Ecosystem Study, 69% of business leaders from companies that are part of an ecosystem credit it as very important to their success.
Nine out of ten said ecosystems increase their resilience. According to the EY Reimagining Industry Futures (pdf) study, 73% of the executives want to prioritize suppliers who can provide relevant ecosystem relationships.
Ecosystems and partnerships matter because transformation to the pervasive intelligence era will occur in dynamic and live operating environments, requiring transition without a loss of capacity. This cannot be done smoothly if companies operate separately and in isolation.