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Unlocking Efficiencies for AI Implementation in Procurement Optimization
By the end 2025, over 60% of procurement decisions will be influenced by AI, yet most organizations still struggle to implement it effectively. Procurement leaders face a paradox: Artificial Intelligence promises transformation, but only when implemented with surgical precision. The hype is over—AI is now a board-level mandate actively reshaping how procurement functions, but turning promise into performance demands more than interest; it requires executive clarity. In our last article, we explored how AI creates value. This time, we’re focused on how to unlock it. From fragmented data and compliance constraints to change resistance and misaligned processes, the road to AI success is lined with pitfalls. What separates the leaders is a practical, people-first approach—one that aligns technology with business goals, ensures stakeholder trust, and delivers measurable impact.
October, 2025
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Blockchain Services 2023–2024 RadarView™
Avasant’s Blockchain Services 2023–2024 RadarView™ provides information to assist enterprises in identifying key application areas and use cases and developing a strategy around blockchain adoption. It helps organizations in charting out an action plan to drive blockchain initiatives. The report identifies key service providers who can help companies expedite business transformation by leveraging blockchain. It brings out detailed capability and experience analyses of leading providers to assist enterprises in identifying the right strategic partners. The 67-page report also highlights key industry trends in the blockchain space and Avasant’s viewpoint on them.
December, 2023
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Retail Digital Services 2024 RadarView™
The Retail Digital Services 2024 RadarView™ helps retail enterprises craft a robust strategy based on industry outlook, best practices, and digital transformation. The report can also aid them in identifying the right partners and service providers to accelerate their digital transformation in this space. The 86-page report also highlights top market trends in the retail space and Avasant’s viewpoint.
March, 2024
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Quantum Resilience: Navigating Cybersecurity in a Quantum World
Recent advancements in quantum computing raise concerns about the future of cryptography, given the computational capabilities of quantum computers to perform complex calculations rapidly and break traditional encryption algorithms. Although cybersecurity systems can tackle quantum threats at present, the promising pace of development in quantum computing poses an inevitable, if not imminent, threat to organizations. Moreover, there is a risk that malicious intruders could steal information now and decrypt it in the future with mature quantum computers. This necessitates enterprises to use post-quantum cryptography to safeguard confidential data and stay ahead of quantum-powered adversaries.
July, 2024
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From Fugaku HPC to Quantum: Fujitsu’s Leap into Next-Gen Supercomputing
The quantum era is here, and it is compelling enterprises to act. Once seen as a distant tech milestone, quantum computing is now reshaping strategies, accelerated by generative AI’s rapid ascent in 2022. Companies realize the risk of unpreparedness as quantum promises to disrupt industries from logistics to cybersecurity. Fujitsu is demonstrating a rapid transition from research to real-world applications. At its recent Executive Analyst Day 2024 in Pune, India, Fujitsu showcased a groundbreaking 64-qubit superconducting quantum chip and an audacious road map to a 256-qubit system by 2025 and over 1,000 qubits by 2026. Its scalable hardware, HPC legacy, multi-architecture approach, and qubit efficiency solidify its edge in this race.
December, 2024
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From Energy to Intelligence: Saudi Arabia’s Next Big Export
Saudi Arabia’s HUMAIN initiative, backed by the Public Investment Fund (PIF), marks a bold and distinctive leap in the global AI race, positioning the country as a serious contender in sovereign AI development. What sets HUMAIN apart is its centralized governance model, distinct from the more decentralized or private sector-led models in countries such as the UAE and the US.
May, 2025
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Charted Territories: Why Vendor Data Strategy is Now a Boardroom Issue
In today’s AI-powered economy, vendor management is no longer a back-office function—it’s a strategic priority demanding executive oversight. Leaders who master their vendor data unlock cost savings, strengthen supplier partnerships, reduce compliance risk, and prepare their organizations for AI-driven transformation. Yet many companies still treat vendor data as fragmented, tactical, or purely transactional.
July, 2025
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Orchestrating Synergies: How IT Procurement Delivers Strategic Value in M&A Integration
Enterprise IT resources are consumed by integration and maintenance, an operational burden largely inherited from M&A-driven expansion, where fragmented systems and overlapping platforms divert focus from innovation. In this environment, the true value of a merger is unlocked not at the deal table but in the speed, precision, and strategy of post-merger integration. IT procurement sits at the nexus of strategy and execution, where converging systems, platforms, and vendors offer immediate, measurable impact. Beyond headline-grabbing cost savings, its real power lies in simplifying decision-making, reducing digital complexity, and speeding up enterprise integration.
October, 2025
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The $100K H-1B Challenge: Strategic Pathways for the Tech Industry
The US administration’s new $100,000 H-1B fee marks a dramatic shift in immigration and foreign-worker policy, aiming to protect domestic wages and generate revenue. While Big Tech may absorb the cost for strategic hires, volume-dependent IT service firms face a potential $1B annual hit, prompting increased offshoring, nearshore expansion, and accelerated AI adoption. Worker shortages may hit healthcare and other critical sectors, while global competition for talent intensifies.
September, 2025
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Policy Harmonization for IT Procurement: Alignment Across Entities
Despite the European Union’s push for smarter procurement, over 55% of public tenders still prioritize price alone—leaving innovation and sustainability on the sidelines. This signals a pressing need for harmonized IT procurement policies that unlock broader strategic value. When aligned across entities, IT procurement policies can deliver powerful outcomes: cost savings, lower compliance risks, streamlined operations, and accelerated innovation. For organizations operating across diverse structures—whether multinational corporations, government agencies, or academic institutions—policy harmonization isn’t just beneficial, it’s essential.
October, 2025
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Blockchain Services 2023–2024 Market Insights™
The Blockchain Services 2023–2024 Market Insights™ assists organizations in identifying important demand-side trends that can help enterprises identify key application areas and use cases and develop a strategy around blockchain adoption. The report also highlights Avasant’s viewpoint on key technology and blockchain-related trends that are expected to have a long-term impact on any digital transformation projects.
December, 2023
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Retail Digital Services 2024 Market Insights™
The Retail Services 2024 Market Insights™ assists organizations in identifying important demand-side trends that are expected to have a long-term impact on any digital project in the retail industry. The report also highlights key challenges that enterprises face today in this space.
March, 2024
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Advanced Network Services 2024 RadarView™
The Advanced Network Services 2024 RadarView™ assists organizations in identifying strategic partners for advanced network services by offering detailed capability and experience analyses for service providers. It provides a 360-degree view of key advanced network services providers across practice maturity, partner ecosystem, and investments and innovation, thereby supporting enterprises in identifying the right advanced network services partner. The 68-page report highlights top supply-side trends in the advanced network services space and Avasant’s viewpoint on them.
July, 2024
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The Evolution of Synchronous AI Agents: Enterprise Adoption Trends and Strategies
The next leap forward is the rise of synchronous AI agents—self-learning systems capable of executing complex, end-to-end tasks from a single prompt. Avasant presents The Evolution of Synchronous AI Agents: Enterprise Adoption Trends and Strategies report in this context. This study is based on in-depth interviews with over 60 industry leaders, including C-level decision-makers, advisors, providers, and tech vendor executives. It offers recommendations for enterprises to accelerate adoption while addressing associated risks and challenges. The report delves into the evolution of synchronous AI, adoption timelines, and industry priorities while uncovering key challenges, opportunities, and strategic considerations, including workforce strategies and outsourcing impacts.
January, 2025
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Closing the Gaps: Standardizing Responsible AI Amidst a Fragmented Global Governance Landscape
The global AI governance landscape is fragmented, with over 1,000 proposed and enacted policies spanning 69 countries, resulting in a complex web of inconsistent and often reactive regulations. Laws governing AI are rarely harmonized across borders and are deeply entangled with broader data protection, cybersecurity, and digital governance policies. This legal complexity makes it difficult for enterprises, especially those operating in sensitive sectors like telecom, healthcare, and government services, to implement AI solutions responsibly. In healthcare, AI tools risk exacerbating diagnostic inequities without fairness testing; in public services, opaque algorithms can reinforce systemic exclusion; and in telecom, restrictions around cross-border data sharing introduce significant governance challenges.
May, 2025
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