Enterprises seeking to adopt quantum computing need to plan how they go about it. Quantum computing is not an incremental step-change over classical computing; it has the potential to be transformative in industries with computationally hard problems.

Omdia chief quantum computing analyst Sam Lucero explains that the risk to enterprises that take a fast-follower approach rather than being an early adopter is that their industries will be fundamentally disrupted, potentially making their competitive position untenable.