Building a Tomorrow Ready Lab

Charles Darwin famously said on survival, “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent; it is the one most adaptable to change.” Resilience has become an essential message in today’s post-covid, next-normal world.

In business, resilience is beginning to play a key role in organizations’ strategies. Historically, companies that have adapted to changing market demands have fared much better than those that did not. After Covid-19 surfaced in 2020, many businesses recognized the need to be prepared for unforeseen adversities. Thus, businesses need to have a conversation about their resilience, and that conversation needs to begin right now.

Today, everything is changing – work from home, operations, data storage & retrieval, quality management, supply chains, and perhaps, life itself. In the face of this change, one word that has become the core element of the conversation is ‘digitalization’.

Industry experts at Gartner agree, “Businesses that can shift technology capacity and investments to digital platforms will mitigate the impact of the outbreak and keep their companies running smoothly now, and over the long term.” Rightly so, companies
that had established digital systems before the pandemic hit were much better prepared for it. With so many changes to the way of work, digital systems proved to be a boon for uninterrupted operations, communications, data management, audits, trainings, etc.