A report just published by Accenture suggests that organizations that made substantial investments in IT have been generally weathering the economic storm brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. Conducted in collaboration with the research firm Oxford Economics Intelligent Operations, the global survey of 1,100 senior-level executives classified respondents in four categories spanning different levels of operations maturity: stable (2%), efficient (32%), predictive (59%), and future-ready (7%). The small number of organizations that achieved future-ready classification are nearly twice as efficient and three times more profitable than their peers is the same vertical industry. Accenture surmises in the report that if more organizations achieved the same level of future-ready status, roughly $5.4 trillion of additional economic value could be unlocked.