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The Next Decade in Quantum Computing – and How to Play

Philipp Gerbert and Frank Ruess

Boston Consulting Group, 2018

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Boston Consulting Group professionals Philipp Gerbert and Frank Ruess provide a quantum computing primer for businessfolk. You’ll find answers to many pressing questions about the technology, including how companies should act in the next five to ten years of quantum computing’s development.

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Quantum computers may someday master computational problems that are currently too time-consuming to solve, and this could reshape business and other industries.
Today’s quantum computing is still flawed, and researchers haven’t yet proven that it can produce quicker, cheaper or higher-quality results than classical computing.
Yet, proof of the “quantum advantage” is imminent, and in the next five to ten years, “medium sized, if still error-prone” quantum computers will enable new discoveries.

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Philipp Gerbert is a senior partner at the Boston Consulting Group Munich, where Frank Ruess is a project leader.

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