Asia-Pacific firms need AI-backed workers by 2025: IDC report
A recent IDC report found that 60% of enterprises in the Asia-Pacific Japan region will need AI-augmented workforces by 2025 to stay competitive. This move will begin a period of growth, marked by greater human-machine collaboration and AI-led innovation.
These organizations still on legacy systems will need to modernize their applications immediately to survive and adapt to the digital world already surpassing them. By 2026, they will progress to integrate data and enterprise applications seamlessly, and evolve to run as autonomous businesses by 2028.
According to an IDC report, as AI and GenAI technologies continue to take the center stage in today’s digital economy, they not only augment organizations’ productivity, automate repetitive tasks but also redefine roles, thus compelling a shift in the requirements of workforce skills.
The report also stated that artificial intelligence (AI) will create an organizational cultural shift and new technology frames will augment 50% of Asia-Pacific workforce by mid-2025, slowly reshaping the enterprise toward more technology usage, enhancing performance. These advancements resulted in a substantial surge in technology buyers’ investments in AI and GenAI driven enterprise software applications to transform their business operations, said the report.
Estelle Quek, Senior Research Manager at IDC Asia/Pacific said: ”At the outset, from 2024 to 2025, Asia’s top 2,000 organizations will focus on changing internal perception and receptivity towards human-machine collaboration.”
GenAI/AI will close 15% of enterprise talent shortage gaps by 2025, but the practice and usage of GenAI/AI will create a surplus of talent across all lines of business by 2027, the report mentioned.
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