Companies Gear Up For 2023

Despite the anticipated economic recession, industry leaders explore the technology investments that will be crucial to their business strategies in 2023. In international news, the underperformance of voice assistants is likely to generate more layoffs. 

This week in Tech news and developments:

Mexico

BMC: The Future of Enterprises is Autonomous

Harvesting and exploiting data through automation has allowed businesses to optimize their operations by creating new revenue sources and clearing a pathway to innovation. To facilitate this transition, business software firm BMC seeks to place software at the center of a corporate strategy focused on agility, customer focus and know-how to support innovation and growth.

Industry

Striving for Data Maturity: A Differential Capacity

“While companies have since improved their capacity to collect data from what can often involve as many as 400 sources, their capacity to digest it remains incipient,” says José Andrés García, Regional VP, Denodo. As companies look to refine their digital transformations strategies, their ability to leverage data intelligence will play a central role in choosing market winners and losers. 

The Top Operational Challenges for Tech Companies in 4Q22

Despite the approximation of an unfavorable global economy, tech companies still need to innovate and scale to swiftly adapt to keep relevant in different markets. This challenges operations teams to develop projects that better navigate the complex moment all tech companies are facing, says Jose Antonio Otero, Project Manager, SkyAlert. 

Servitization: A Competitive Advantage

The incipient maturity of “servitization,” a model in which businesses redefine their business strategy to focus on the provision of services, in Mexico and Latin America has not been  sufficient to address the needs of many clients in the region. The sizable market potential of this largely ignored commercial need calls for national and regional companies to explore the implementation of servitization strategies, says Matias Bertoni, CEO, Tecnoap. 

International 

‘Colossal Failure’ of Voice Assistants Could Mean More Tech Layoffs

Privacy concerns and underutilization of voice assistants foreshadow their early death, according to Gizmodo. For voice assistants to survive, companies from Amazon, Google and Apple need to repurpose the technology with a direct market avenue or face discontinuation, both of which will likely generate more layoffs.