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Enhancing Project Success through Effective Onboarding
Starting a new job can be both exciting and challenging, especially when it comes to understanding the specifics of a new project. A well-structured project-specific onboarding process is essential for ensuring new hires are adequately prepared and confident in their roles. This article explores the importance of project-specific onboarding and how it differs from general company-wide onboarding. It details our approach to creating a dynamic and engaging onboarding experience, which includes comprehensive orientation, interactive training sessions, mentorship, gradual integration, and regular feedback. By prioritizing project-specific onboarding, we aim to foster a positive and productive work environment that benefits both the individual and the team, ultimately driving the project's overall success.
August, 2025
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A Global AI Governance Decalogue for Procurement
With over 70 jurisdictions racing to regulate Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems, procurement leaders face a compliance minefield that could derail innovation and vendor agility. The European Union’s AI Act spans over 140 pages. The U.S. Executive Order on “Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy AI” adds over 30 pages. Brazil, China, Canada, Singapore, and numerous others are releasing their own legislation — creating a rapidly diversifying global mandate.
October, 2025
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AI Governance and Ethical Adoption: A Roadmap for Enterprises
With over 60% of enterprises integrating generative AI into core operations, the urgency for responsible governance has never been greater. Generative AI is revolutionizing how businesses operate, make decisions, and engage with customers—unlocking new efficiencies, innovations, and competitive advantages. But with this transformation comes risk.
October, 2025
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AI for Profit: How Generative AI is Reshaping Revenue Strategies
Most enterprises are leveraging generative AI for its exponential productivity gains across departments such as marketing, operations, and IT and for better alignment with user expectations. However, some innovative enterprises have initiated the use of generative AI to unlock new monetization prospects, allowing companies to strategically boost revenue streams and profitability. Enterprises across sectors such as high-tech, telecom, banking, and healthcare are leading the charge by introducing generative AI-powered solutions and services or adding new features as a service with a focus on policy, people, and partnerships. This, in turn, is driving other organizations to seek similar monetization opportunities.
December, 2023
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Healthcare Payor Digital Services 2024 Market Insights™
The Healthcare Payor 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 project in the healthcare payor industry. The report also highlights key challenges that enterprises face today.
March, 2024
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Responsible AI: A Strategic Imperative for Enterprises in Generative AI Implementation
While AI has driven technological innovation for decades, the pressing need to integrate responsible AI (RAI) principles has surged only in the past year. Historically, RAI emerged as a distinct practice in 2018, yet many enterprises failed to prioritize AI governance, often regarding it as a compliance obligation rather than a foundational element. However, the advent of Gen AI tools such as Gemini and ChatGPT has introduced fresh risks, underscoring the critical importance of robust RAI practices in addressing issues such as intellectual property misappropriation, hallucinations, and cyberattacks.
June, 2024
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DeepSeek Hype: All That Glitters Is Not Gold
DeepSeek-R1, a Chinese open-source AI model, is challenging Silicon Valley’s dominance by delivering high performance at a fraction of traditional costs. DeepSeek has redefined AI efficiency, slashing training costs to just $5.6 million. However, while its innovation is undeniable, concerns around transparency, data security, and ethical safeguards raise critical questions. This whitepaper explores DeepSeek’s disruptive potential, its implications for the global AI landscape, and the pressing need for responsible deployment before enterprises integrate it into high-stakes environments.
January, 2025
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The Illusion of AI Sovereignty: Washington and Beijing Still Pull the Strings
A new wave of digital nationalism is sweeping through public policy and enterprise boardrooms. Countries including France, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Singapore, and India are doubling down on sovereign AI. They are investing in localized data ecosystems, region-specific LLMs, national AI clouds, and stricter compliance regimes. No nation today enjoys absolute, full-stack AI sovereignty. Rather than chasing total independence, the trend is toward layered sovereignty: choosing which parts of the stack to control, influence, outsource, or codevelop. The sovereign AI game is not binary; it is composable. In the coming decade, national AI strategies will be defined not by what a country builds alone but by what it chooses to own, protect, and shape on its own terms.
June, 2025
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IT and Apps Managed Services Provider Trends: Quarterly Report for CQ1 2025
In this quarterly report (calendar quarter 1, 2025), Avasant provides key information on IT and apps managed services provider trends. The report covers key information on the IT services industry and the provider ecosystem. It covers the service provider facts and figures (including revenue and resource trends) and executive sentiment from the service provider community. The report covers trends across a gamut of IT services, including but not limited to IT infrastructure, application, and end-user services. The geographic coverage for the report is global. It builds on insights gathered through ongoing market research, data collection, and proprietary databases. It includes market data from providers accessed through multiple sources such as public disclosures, market interactions, and deals data.
July, 2025
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Beyond Digital Transformation: The AI-First Business Revolution
As companies worldwide grapple with AI implementation, a critical gap has emerged between executive ambitions and organizational reality, revealing the urgent need for a fundamental shift in how we approach AI-driven change.
August, 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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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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IT and Apps Managed Services Pricing and Solution Trends: H1 2024
In this report, Avasant provides key information on solutions and pricing trends for the IT and apps managed services industry in the past 12 months. The report covers several aspects, including market trends, pricing model trends, and pricing and staffing trends in the space. The geographical scope of the report is global, although there is an emphasis on data points from North America. The report leverages valuable insights from our enterprise interactions, ongoing market research, data collection through primary research, and the AvaMark™ Price Benchmarking database.
June, 2024
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