Q&A With Deloitte's Stephen Keathley: Mid-Market Surges Ahead With IT Innovation

With regard to the mid-market's heightened interest in such emerging technologies as IoT, and virtual and augmented reality, are mid-market companies ahead of or keeping pace with larger enterprises?

That's a [question] we've been debating. Obviously it depends on the companies, but I think what we're seeing is that mid-market companies are finding that the time to value of these emerging technologies is such that they can afford to be aggressive with it, and they're getting good results and it's allowing them to remain competitive with their larger competitors. I don’t know if they're more aggressive with it [but] I do think they're more nimble with it. … They make decisions faster and they move things from prototype [and] pilot into production faster than large companies might.