Innovate, Join, Domesticate
The Cloud Cultures collection 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 a captivating testomony to the flexibility of know-how, and there was clear proof that individuals form know-how, not the opposite manner 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 historic and trendy coexist in concord. Its wealthy cultural heritage displays the various influences which have formed its identification, from pre-Hispanic civilizations to international integration. However Mexico isn’t solely a rustic of custom; additionally it is a rustic of innovation, the place know-how and enterprise are continuously evolving to fulfill the challenges and alternatives of a altering world. On this episode of Cloud Cultures, I discover how three corporations in Mexico are utilizing know-how to create a tradition of reinvention, and the influence 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 influence. Libertad Soluciones de Vida affords a spread of monetary providers, from financial savings and loans to insurance coverage and pensions. Their focus is to help people who find themselves typically excluded from the standard banking system, and to create a extra equitable world by empowering individuals with the instruments they should enhance their lives.
Libertad Soluciones de Vida has been working since 1960, nevertheless it was in 2018 that they determined to speed up their digital transformation, utilizing the cloud as the muse of their new providers. The cloud allows them to succeed in extra prospects, particularly in distant and rural areas, and to supply them a seamless and personalised expertise.
As José Ricardo Merino explains, the cloud isn’t solely a technological resolution, but in addition a cultural one.
“The cloud is a mind-set, a manner of working, a manner of innovating. It permits us to be extra agile, extra versatile, extra aware of the wants of our prospects and our society. It additionally permits us to be extra artistic, to experiment with new concepts, to study from our failures, and to enhance our providers. The cloud is a catalyst for change and progress.”
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 irrespective 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 historic websites, spanning historic cultures and civilizations. Simply as these lovely 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 means of mergers and acquisitions, they’ve grown into a worldwide development supplies firm, offering industry-leading merchandise and options around the globe. Fausto Sosa, the Vice President of Data 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, Data 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 similar to synthetic intelligence and machine studying.
Grupo Bimbo: Nourishing a greater world, by means of know-how
The attractive aromas of Mexico Metropolis’s road 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 superb 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 as a consequence of their knack for embracing innovation by means 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. At the start, the whole lot was accomplished by them. They began that manner and in 70 plus years, they turned the largest bakery on the planet. Generally it’s essential overcome the struggles to search 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 World 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 should be abrupt; a gradual course of permits us to find what really resonates with us. It’s by means of difficult the established notions that we pave the way in which 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 new sights, delicacies, and innovation!
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