Zero Trust Security Is The Growth Catalyst IoT Needs
McKinsey predicts the Internet of Things (IoT) market will be worth $581B for ICT-based spend alone, growing at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) between 7 and 15% according to their study Internet of Things The IoT opportunity – Are you ready to capture a once-in-a-lifetime value pool? By 2020, Discrete Manufacturing, Transportation & Logistics […]
SAP and Outsourcers: Fool me twice, shame on me
I am often asked why I was tough on SAP in SAP Nation. I usually correct them and say I was tough on SAP’s partners and how SAP did a poor job monitoring and managing them. I must say I groaned when I saw the SAP announcement where it plans to team with Accenture, Capgemni and Deloitte […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Why does every sector underestimate Amazon?
Amazon finally broke out AWS revenues – it has an annual run rate of $ 5 billion with growth accelerating, and that is profitable. Lots of people are shocked Amazon has built a solid business in yet another sector – this time against titans like IBM, HP, Oracle and many other outsourcing/hosting firms. Not surprising […]
Cognizants own Digital Transformation
By Vinnie Mirchandani on December 4, 2017
You hear about digital projects at their clients, but you don’t hear much from outsourcers about their own transformations. Cloud competitors like Amazon, contract manufacturers like Foxconn and digital agencies have dramatically changed the landscape of services. So it was refreshing to spend some time recently with Raj Mehta, President of Cognizant, to discuss their […]
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