Innovate, Join, Domesticate
The Cloud Cultures sequence is an exploration of the intersection between cloud innovation and tradition throughout the globe.
Final yr, I visited Poland, Sweden, England, and Italy, and discovered how the distinctive tradition of every of those nations has formed how they undertake and use know-how, demonstrating the various methods wherein know-how can be utilized to boost lives and societies. It was an enchanting testomony to the flexibility of know-how, and there was clear proof that folks form know-how, not the opposite means round.
Now, I begin my subsequent journey in Mexico, a number one nation in cloud adoption in Latin America.
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Mexico is a rustic of contrasts, the place historical and fashionable coexist in concord. Its wealthy cultural heritage displays the various influences which have formed its id, from pre-Hispanic civilizations to international integration. However Mexico will not be solely a rustic of custom; additionally it is a rustic of innovation, the place know-how and enterprise are always evolving to satisfy the challenges and alternatives of a altering world. On this episode of Cloud Cultures, I discover how three firms in Mexico are utilizing know-how to create a tradition of reinvention, and the impression they’re making on each the economic system and society.
Libertad Soluciones de Vida: A imaginative and prescient of monetary inclusion
My first assembly is with José Ricardo Merino, the CEO of Libertad Soluciones de Vida, an organization that’s remodeling the monetary sector with a mission of social impression. Libertad Soluciones de Vida affords a variety of monetary providers, from financial savings and loans to insurance coverage and pensions. Their focus is to assist people who find themselves typically excluded from the standard banking system, and to create a extra equitable world by empowering folks with the instruments they should enhance their lives.
Libertad Soluciones de Vida has been working since 1960, but it surely was in 2018 that they determined to speed up their digital transformation, utilizing the cloud as the muse of their new providers. The cloud permits them to succeed in extra prospects, particularly in distant and rural areas, and to supply them a seamless and customized expertise.
As José Ricardo Merino explains, the cloud will not be solely a technological resolution, but in addition a cultural one.
“The cloud is a mind-set, a means of working, a means of innovating. It permits us to be extra agile, extra versatile, extra conscious of the wants of our prospects and our society. It additionally permits us to be extra artistic, to experiment with new concepts, to be taught from our failures, and to enhance our providers. The cloud is a catalyst for change and development.”
José Ricardo Merino, CEO, Libertad Soluciones de Vida
The cloud is the muse of their new providers, serving to to ensure that everybody can use the identical providers regardless of the place they’re positioned. Whether or not within the coronary heart of the Mexico Metropolis, or within the forests of the Yucatan, members can go online and all have the identical entry.
Cemex: Builds a legacy
Mexico is famend for its wealthy archaeological heritage and historical websites, spanning historic cultures and civilizations. Simply as these stunning stone foundations have stood the take a look at of time, so too has Cemex, an organization that has embraced innovation to assemble a legacy that has endured for over a century.
Cemex started as a regional cement firm in 1906, however by way of mergers and acquisitions, they’ve grown into a worldwide building supplies firm, offering industry-leading merchandise and options all over the world. Fausto Sosa, the Vice President of Info Expertise at Cemex, shared how innovation has been key to their success, with know-how aiding their effectivity and talent to reinvent and create services and products.
“We’ve initiated a program we name Cloud Transformation with a transparent objective: to raise buyer expertise. By increasing our capabilities and fostering flexibility and innovation, we’re striving to place our firm on the forefront of progress.”
Fausto Sosa, Info and Expertise Vice President, Cemex
In an {industry} constructed on conventional approaches, Cemex stands out by piloting innovation in small, agile batches earlier than scaling throughout the group. Shifting ahead, they’re excited to discover how the cloud may allow additional advances equivalent to synthetic intelligence and machine studying.
Grupo Bimbo: Nourishing a greater world, by way of know-how
The attractive aromas of Mexico Metropolis’s avenue meals led us to Grupo Bimbo, an organization that’s innovating to guard the planet, whereas feeding the planet. And whereas I visited, I spent lots of time having fun with the wonderful merchandise they create.
From a single bakery in 1945, Grupo Bimbo has expanded to 34 nations with greater than 100 manufacturers. Their journey from a small bakery to world’s largest bakery firm is a testomony to their founders’ imaginative and prescient and preventing spirit. The success of the bakery is essentially because of their knack for embracing innovation by way of know-how, being the primary bakery to make use of cellophane.
“Think about Mexico in 1945, it was only a small place, and the founders had a transparent imaginative and prescient on the place they need to take it. Initially, all the things was executed by them. They began that means and in 70 plus years, they turned the largest bakery on the planet. Typically it’s good to overcome the struggles to seek out or to develop. That sentiment, that preventing spirit I feel has made us who and the place we’re. The founder’s mentality, that fireside, continues to be in our DNA.”
Juan Pajon, Enterprise Expertise International Senior Vice President, Grupo Bimbo.
As we speak, they’re harnessing knowledge and cloud know-how to boost their sustainability efforts, aiming for 100% renewable power by 2025 and net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.
What’s subsequent
Change, as I’ve skilled in Mexico, is a pure, wholesome development that opens doorways to recent alternatives. Innovation doesn’t must be abrupt; a gradual course of permits us to find what really resonates with us. It’s by way of difficult the established notions that we pave the best way for novel concepts. By welcoming change, Mexico is crafting a future as vibrant and wealthy as its previous.
My journey to Mexico was fueled by a longing for delectable delicacies and priceless knowledge. Having savored each, my gaze now shifts eastward—to a younger nation striving to bridge cultural, social, and geographical divides.
Let’s proceed this journey of discovery, the place know-how, steeped in tradition, shapes our on a regular basis world.
See you subsequent time for brand spanking new sights, delicacies, and innovation!
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