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The Essential AI Skills for Procurement Professionals in 2025: Staying Relevant in a Transformative Era
As AI becomes deeply integrated into procurement processes, the skillset required for success now includes technical competencies that complement traditional procurement expertise. The procurement landscape is undergoing a seismic shift, driven by the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence (AI) tools. For decades, procurement professionals relied on sourcing acumen, negotiation skills, and supplier management expertise to navigate their roles. To lead in 2025 and beyond, procurement professionals must master three AI-powered capabilities: data fluency, prompt engineering, and model validation. These aren’t just technical skills — they’re the new core competencies of a modern, AI-augmented procurement leader.
July, 2025
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Rethinking B2B Marketing Execution:The Age of Execution Reinvention
In Rethinking B2B Marketing Execution: The Age of Execution Reinvention, a report by Avasant commissioned by 2X, we examine how enterprise CMOs are redesigning how work gets done. The data is clear: the current model can’t keep up with pipeline goals, but leaders are already shifting.
August, 2025
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Intelligent Sourcing to Autonomous Sites: How AI is Redefining Construction
The engineering and construction (E&C) industry has historically lagged in digital adoption, ranking among the least digitized sectors globally. While industries such as manufacturing built robust digital backbones, construction remained anchored in legacy systems and labor-intensive practices. Avasant’s IT Spending Trends in Construction and Trade Services 2024 highlights that IT budgets in construction are not only smaller in proportion to revenue but also stretched thin across fragmented organizations and project-based models. For small and mid-sized contractors, the industry’s backbone, these constraints often limit investment in next-generation platforms.
September, 2025
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Powering Resilience: Strengthening Supply Chains in the Age of Grid Strain and AI Expansion
In today’s hyperconnected economy, supply chains are only as strong as the infrastructure that powers them. Yet, the U.S. electricity grid—much of it built in the mid-20th century—is buckling under the dual pressures of aging infrastructure and surging demand from AI-driven data centers. The Energy Information Administration (EIA) projects global electricity demand could increase by about one-third to three-quarters by 2050, depending on the case . As AI becomes a cornerstone of modern business operations, its energy appetite is reshaping the grid and exposing vulnerabilities that could ripple across global supply chains. For C-level executives, the question is no longer if disruptions will occur, but how to prepare. Can AI, paradoxically, be both the disruptor and the solution? How can C – Level executives leverage AI to future-proof their supply chains against energy volatility and infrastructure fragility?
October, 2025
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Ambient AI Scribes: Streamlining Clinical Documentation for Operational Efficiency
The integration of advanced technologies such as digital scribing and ambient AI scribes is transforming clinical documentation in healthcare. These AI-driven tools use natural language processing and machine learning to capture and transcribe patient-provider interactions in real time, generating structured notes for EHRs with minimal clinician input. By automating documentation, they alleviate one of healthcare’s most pressing challenges—clinician burnout caused by excessive EHR tasks that typically consume up to 60% of a physician’s workday .
November, 2025
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Higher Education Digital Services 2023–2024 Market Insights™
The Higher Education Digital Services 2023–2024 Market Insights™ assists organizations in identifying important demand-side trends that are expected to have a long-term impact on any digital projects in the higher education space. The report also highlights key challenges that enterprises face today.
July, 2023
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Nordics Digital Services 2023–2024 Market Insights™
The Nordics Digital Services 2023–2024 Market Insights™ assists organizations in identifying important demand-side trends that are expected to have a long-term impact on any digital projects in the Nordic region. The report also highlights key challenges that enterprises face today.
December, 2023
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Hybrid Enterprise Cloud Services 2023–2024 Market Insights™
The Hybrid Enterprise Cloud Services 2023–2024 Market Insights™ assists organizations in identifying important demand-side trends that are expected to have a long-term impact on any hybrid enterprise cloud projects. The report also highlights key hybrid enterprise cloud services challenges that enterprises face today.
February, 2024
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Multisourcing Service Integration 2023–2024 RadarView™
The Multisourcing Service Integration 2023–2024 RadarView™ assists organizations in identifying strategic partners for MSI by offering detailed capability and experience analyses for service providers. It provides a 360-degree view of key MSI service providers across practice maturity, partner ecosystem, and investments and innovation, thereby supporting enterprises in identifying the right MSI services partner. The 66-page report highlights top supply-side trends in the MSI space and Avasant’s viewpoint on them.
April, 2024
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Advanced Network Services 2024 Market Insights™
The Advanced Network Services 2024 Market Insights™ assists organizations in identifying important demand-side trends that are expected to have a long-term impact on any advanced networks project they take part in. The report also highlights key implementation challenges that enterprises face today.
July, 2024
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Canada Digital Services 2024 Market Insights™
The Canada Digital Services 2024 Market Insights assists organizations in identifying important demand-side trends that are expected to have a long-term impact on any digital projects in Canada. The report also highlights key challenges that enterprises face today.
November, 2024
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The Open-Source Gambit: Did DeepSeek Ignite an AI Arms Race?
On January 20, 2025, DeepSeek stunned the industry with the release of DeepSeek-R1, an open-source, cost-efficient AI model that rivaled OpenAI’s GPT-4 on multiple benchmarks. DeepSeek did not just disrupt the AI industry; it sparked a geopolitical AI arms race. The battle for AI sovereignty has begun. While multiple governments have banned DeepSeek over data security concerns, its impact on AI’s trajectory is definite. Just as Sputnik’s launch in 1957 ignited the space race, DeepSeek has triggered a reckoning in AI strategy, forcing the world to reconsider the balance between accessibility, security, and sovereignty.
February, 2025
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From Oil to Hyperintelligence: The Strategic Pivot of GCC Countries
The GCC’s AI pivot marks a decisive break from hydrocarbon dependency, turning sovereign data, public capital, and enterprise scale into levers for AI-powered economic reinvention. Unlike fragmented efforts in other regions, the Gulf’s approach is both top-down and execution-focused, grounded in national AI visions, strategic sectoral priorities, and commercialization frameworks. What distinguishes the GCC is its intent to not only deploy AI but also build monetizable IP and regional platforms, especially in Arabic-first use cases. This transformation is not speculative; it is tightly aligned with fiscal rebalancing, industrial policy, and long-term digital sovereignty goals.
May, 2025
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Mastering CrowdStrike Negotiations Post-Disruption
Few names resonate as strongly in the world of cybersecurity as CrowdStrike. Known for its cutting-edge technology and robust security solutions, CrowdStrike has become a go-to provider for many enterprises. However, recent incident service disruptions have cast a shadow over CrowdStrike's reputation. For companies that use CrowdStrike for security services and are about to engage in a renewal cycle, strategic negotiation methodologies can be used to leverage these incident service issues and improve terms.
July, 2025
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Innovation at the Speed of Flight: Pioneering Digital Transformation in Aerospace and Defense
Digital transformation is a critical focus for the Aerospace and Defense (A&D) sector as organizations seek to improve operational efficiency, enhance system integration, and maintain competitiveness in a rapidly evolving technological landscape. With increasing reliance on data-driven systems, automation, and advanced analytics, A&D firms are exploring new ways to modernize processes while ensuring security, compliance, and reliability.
August, 2025
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