Artificial Intelligence Will Enable 38% Profit Gains By 2035
By 2035 AI technologies have the potential to increase productivity 40% or more. AI will increase economic growth an average of 1.7% across 16 industries by 2035. Information and Communication, Manufacturing and Financial Services will be the top three industries that gain economic growth in 2035 from AI’s benefits. AI will have the most positive […]
The 90s called: They want you to reengineer again with Deloitte and SAP
Dr. Michael Hammer was a rock star in the 90s with his reengineering books and his booming voice and entertaining speaking style. While at Gartner, Deloitte invited me to a workshop at Hammer’s consulting firm. I gladly accepted, then could not believe what I was hearing. Here is the guy who had heroically shouted “Don’t […]
Accenture Acquires DayNine and positions itself at the forefront of the race for Workday services supremacy
Why do the eyes of HR people always light up when you mention the word “Workday”? Has Workday become the “complete suite” for the HR function, in a similar vein that SAP did with the CIO in the 1990s? Well, judging by the feverish excitement from the leading service providers to scoop up the best […]
Salesforce: Time to spread wings
Salesforce hosted an Analyst Summit last week. It was very well done – a nice blend of product, strategy, customer and partner sessions. Add their event to the list of excellent summits I wrote about last year. I have been a big fan of the cloud model and have written generously about Salesforce and its […]
Provider, provider on the wall, who’s delivering Trust for Digital?
Anyone who knows me well has seen how hard we’ve been pressing the importance of security and trust in a global services delivery environment, since we founded HfS. In short, we’re moving into a world where reactive fixes to security breaches is a sure-fire recipe for disaster. Savvy enterprises simply have to deploy proactive, holistic […]
SaaS: We aint seen nothing yet
Every SaaS conference this year – Dreamforce, SuiteWorld, PowerPlex, Rising – has been brimming with confidence and mostly happy customers. Things are going swimmingly well. No surprise – for a decade now, my blogs and books have been celebrating SaaS executives and customers. And yet, when I recently wrote Chapter 4 of SAP Nation 2.0, […]
Harman, Tech Mahindra, IBM, Accenture and Atos leading the Internet of Things phenomenon
The silicon valley giants are not satisfied with embedding themselves into your phones and laptops – now they are looking to connect up our cars, bank accounts, air conditioning systems, washing machines, even our hair dryers (OK, maybe not hairdryers just yet)… They want to manage data tied to your whole life, not just your computing […]
The Supplier Network of Tomorrow: Accenture and Spend Matters on the Future of Procurement Technology
Supplier networks today will be very different from those of tomorrow. In the future, supplier networks will form the basis of not just transactional buyer and supplier connectivity, but more. In the recently publishing Accenture whitepaper, Procurement’s Next Frontier – The Future Will Give Rise to an Organization of One, the authors suggest the elements […]
HfS unveils the first application testing blueprint report
The lifeblood of the IT outsourcing industry has always been application testing – it’s not sexy, but it’s a huge portion of ITO spending – and massively important to the revenues of the major ITOs. And while much of the traditional app testing market is commoditizing, with advances in remote management and automation, the proliferation […]
When Time is the Commodity: Optimizing Procurement’s Focus and Activities in the SMB Market
Procurement organizations operating in small and middle market environments do not have the luxury of time – in certain cases there is not even a formal function. Supply Chain Digest recently explored the subject, quoting a piece from Redactive’s Supply Business quarterly featuring the thoughts of Dave Nellist, who runs procurement for a New Zealand […]
