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a step change in adoption
About this report
The IoT Business Index 2020: a step change in adoption is written by
The Economist Intelligence Unit and sponsored by Arm. It examines
the results of our latest IoT Business Index, a measure of IoT adoption
by the global business community. The index draws on a survey of 825
business executives, conducted in late 2019.
Survey respondents were drawn from Europe (30%), North America
(30%), Asia-Pacific (30%) and the rest of the world (10%). Seventy-five
respondents work in each of the following industries: financial services;
manufacturing; healthcare, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology;
information technology; energy and natural resources; construction
and real estate; automotive; infrastructure; agriculture/food; and
outsourced facilities management. Half were drawn from companies
with annual revenue of more than US$500m and half from smaller
companies. See Appendix for a note on the index methodology.
We interviewed the following executives for the report (listed
alphabetically by organisation name):
- Nancy Hartsoch, co-founder and CEO, AquaSeca
- Dr Frank Maddux, global chief medical officer and member of the
management board, Fresenius Medical Care
- Nathalie Wright, group digital and IT transformation director, Rexel
- Luke D’Arcy, co-founder, Sensize
- Regu Ayyaswamy, global head of IoT and engineering services, TCS
We would like to thank all interviewees and survey respondents for
their time and insight.
