Welcome to the HBR Video Quick Take. I’m Todd Pruzan, senior editor for research and special projects at Harvard Business Review. Over the last few years, midsize companies have made huge leaps in adopting technology to survive, enabling their employees to work remotely, switching to online stores, improving supply chain visibility, and offering online learning.
These leaders have adopted technologies that may have seemed available only to large enterprises in the past. For instance, one example is, of those leading companies, 92% of them have adopted or plan to adopt an ERP system.Ninety-two percent—that’s pretty impressive. David, as you said, many of these technologies only seemed appropriate for the big guys in the past. So what’s changed?It is really interesting. I think what we’ve seen is this democratization for these midsize companies.