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 realized how the distinctive tradition of every of those nations has formed how they undertake and use expertise, demonstrating the various methods during which expertise can be utilized to boost lives and societies. It was a captivating testomony to the flexibility of expertise, and there was clear proof that individuals form expertise, 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 world integration. However Mexico just isn’t solely a rustic of custom; it’s also a rustic of innovation, the place expertise and enterprise are consistently evolving to fulfill the challenges and alternatives of a altering world. On this episode of Cloud Cultures, I discover how three firms in Mexico are utilizing expertise to create a tradition of reinvention, and the influence they’re making on each the financial system and society.

Libertad Soluciones de Vida: A imaginative and prescient of economic inclusion

My first assembly is with José Ricardo Merino, the CEO of Libertad Soluciones de Vida, an organization that’s reworking the monetary sector with a mission of social influence. Libertad Soluciones de Vida affords a spread of economic companies, 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 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 inspiration of their new companies. The cloud permits them to achieve extra clients, particularly in distant and rural areas, and to supply them a seamless and customized expertise.

As José Ricardo Merino explains, the cloud just 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 attentive to the wants of our clients and our society. It additionally permits us to be extra inventive, to experiment with new concepts, to study from our failures, and to enhance our companies. The cloud is a catalyst for change and progress.”

José Ricardo Merino, CEO, Libertad Soluciones de Vida

The cloud is the inspiration of their new companies, serving to to ensure that everybody can use the identical companies irrespective of the place they’re situated. Whether or not within the coronary heart of the Mexico Metropolis, or within the forests of the Yucatan, members can go browsing 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 check 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 building supplies firm, offering industry-leading merchandise and options world wide. Fausto Sosa, the Vice President of Info Know-how at Cemex, shared how innovation has been key to their success, with expertise aiding their effectivity and talent to reinvent and create services and products. 

“We’ve initiated a program we name Cloud Transformation with a transparent purpose: 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 Know-how 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. Transferring ahead, they’re excited to discover how the cloud may allow additional advances resembling synthetic intelligence and machine studying.

Grupo Bimbo: Nourishing a greater world, by means of expertise

The engaging 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 on account of their knack for embracing innovation by means of expertise, 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 wish to take it. Firstly, all the pieces was completed by them. They began that manner and in 70 plus years, they turned the most important bakery on the earth. Typically you have to overcome the struggles to search out or to develop. That sentiment, that preventing spirit I believe has made us who and the place we’re. The founder’s mentality, that fireplace, continues to be in our DNA.”

Juan Pajon, Enterprise Know-how International Senior Vice President, Grupo Bimbo.

At present, they’re harnessing knowledge and cloud expertise 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 contemporary alternatives. Innovation doesn’t must be abrupt; a gradual course of permits us to find what actually resonates with us. It’s by means 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 yearning 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 expertise, 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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