Businesses urged to experiment with quantum computing now
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Updated · MIT Sloan Management Review · May 7
Businesses urged to experiment with quantum computing now
14 articles · Updated · MIT Sloan Management Review · May 7
The report says companies should invest before the technology matures, using hands-on trials, feedback loops and producer-user co-invention to identify practical use cases.
It argues qubit counts, error rates and other engineering milestones are poor guides for business timing because economic value emerges gradually through complementary innovation and organisational learning.
Drawing parallels with electricity and classical computing, it says quantum is a general-purpose technology whose near-term payoffs may be modest but can shape longer-term breakthrough gains.
With fault-tolerant quantum computing just years away, is waiting to invest a bigger risk than investing now?
As hackers harvest data for future quantum decryption, are companies running out of time to secure their secrets?