New Delhi, April 22 -- It will take about a quarter for clients, who have now hopped on to the fence, to understand the impact of tariffs brought in by the US administration, two top officials of Accenture Plc told Mint in an interview.

Pointing out that the current volatility may actually provide impetus for artificial intelligence (AI)-led transformation by companies, they added that companies are moving more than a quarter of their annual technology spends to AI-led solutions, especially generative AI or GenAI.

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