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Intellectually brave and fact-based insights on transformative strategies, technology and processes
Intellectually brave and fact-based insights on transformative strategies, technology and processes
September 17, 2019
by Abhishek Mundra, AS Yamohiadeen
As part of our enterprise platform services research, we reached out to 15 global IT service providers and some of their key enterprise clients to understand their views on the leading cloud ERP vendors: Microsoft Dynamics 365, Oracle ERP Cloud, and SAP S/4 HANA. We then analyzed their input against five important parameters. Who’s the winner? Oracle ERP Cloud. Here’s [...]
September 13, 2019
Enterprises are increasingly embracing DevOps to enhance their business performance by accelerating their software time-to-market. In principle, DevOps covers the entire spectrum of Software Development Life Cycle, SDLC, activities from design through operation. But, in practice, only ~ 20 percent of enterprises are leveraging DevOps end-to-end, according to our recent research, DevOps Services PEAK Matrix™ Assessment and Market Trends 2019 [...]
September 12, 2019
There is a “changing of the guard” at DXC Technology. Mike Salvino is now President and Chief Executive Officer and succeeds Mike Lawrie, who served as DXC’s Chairman, President and CEO. The change in leadership is happening at one of the last US national champions of the services industry. This move will be viewed with interest in many of the [...]
September 11, 2019
by Jimit Arora
Here’s a sobering fact: Everest Group research found that 78 percent of enterprises fail in their digital transformation initiatives. Failure here can mean multiple things, including unsustainable returns, lack of user adoption, or, even worse, abandoned projects. The following picture illustrates one of the key reasons they’re failing. What is it? It’s a Steaming Pile of Technology – what we [...]
September 10, 2019
Companies widely recognize the potential power of artificial intelligence (AI). They instinctively understand that it feels like we’re on the cusp of something that will change our lives and our businesses in a profound way. Yet, many struggle with where to apply it. Executives can’t shake the feeling that they should have use cases for AI and use it productively [...]
September 10, 2019
by Sarweshwer Gupta, Udit Singh
In today’s digital world, enterprise success is all about speed, agility, and flexibility in order to adapt to market and competitor dynamics. It is no surprise that 62% of enterprises view IT services agility and flexibility as a primary focus of their IT services strategy1, with cost reduction seen as a derivative. The digital businesses of today require a business-centric [...]
September 07, 2019
There is no business we can think of that is immune from the shifting demands of consumers in our digital world. I was recently doing working with a 125-year-old insurance company headquartered in the American Midwest to develop a digital transformation strategy. As with most insurance companies, its policies are sold through a network of financial professionals, who, in this [...]
September 03, 2019
In today’s ultra-competitive marketplace, every company whether they realize it or not, is creating multiple digital platforms. Why? Because platforms transcend traditional value chains and enable companies to create new business value. What this really means is companies are moving away from processes to platforms to create competitive advantages. The top 10 Fortune 500 companies are platform companies (Apple, Facebook, [...]
August 27, 2019
A whopping 73 percent of enterprises failed to provide any business value whatsoever from their digital transformation efforts, according to an Everest Group study last year. Furthermore, 78 percent failed to meet their business objectives. Put another way, only 22 percent achieved their desired business results. This is horrific. Why does this happen? While there are many causes of failure [...]
August 26, 2019
In order to evolve from cost enablers to strategic partners that can drive competitive advantage, shared services centers (SSCs) – what we call Global In-House Centers (GICs) – must support their parent enterprises’ innovation agenda. And whether innovation means one, more, or all of the following to their enterprise, SSCs are quickly recognizing that creation of their own innovation team [...]
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