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Talent Acquisition Business Process Transformation 2024–2025 Market Insights™
The Talent Acquisition Business Process Transformation 2024–2025 Market Insights™ assists organizations in identifying important demand-side trends that are expected to have a long-term impact on any talent acquisition transformation project. The report also highlights the evolution of the talent acquisition function and emerging priorities of talent acquisition professionals.
January, 2025
Large Language Model Operations Platforms 2024–2025 Market Insights™
This report identifies key demand-side trends in the large language model operations space, helping enterprises improve their AI operations management capabilities. It provides an overview of key observations and business challenges that Avasant considers important to highlight in this space.
March, 2025
UAE’s AI Gambit: From Bold Vision to a Global Contender
Dubai AI Week was not just another tech conference but an ecosystem-wide movement. Spanning over five days, it brought together every stakeholder in the AI value chain—from startups, big tech, and academia to government bodies, developers, coders, and students. The event captured the true spirit of how Dubai envisions its AI future: inclusive, action-driven, and globally connected.
May, 2025
Navigating Rising Costs and Member Expectations: The Business Process Imperative for Health Payers
The U.S. health insurance industry finds itself at a critical inflection point as financial pressures mount alongside escalating member demands for digital-first experiences. According to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), health insurers reported a stark 14.1% decline in net income to approximately $16 billion during the first half of 2024, compared to the same period in the prior year. Even more concerning, underwriting gains plummeted 31.3% to roughly $12 billion, signaling fundamental challenges in the industry's core operational model.
June, 2025
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
Multisourcing Service Integration 2025 RadarView™
The Multisourcing Service Integration 2025 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 65-page report highlights top supply-side trends in the MSI space and Avasant’s viewpoint on them.
July, 2025
Wired for Wellness: The New Face of Healthcare
In a dynamic panel discussion at Avasant’s Empowering Beyond conference titled The Future of Health: How AI and Innovation are Driving Operational and Patient Outcomes, a diverse group of healthcare leaders gathered to explore how emerging technologies are transforming the healthcare landscape in recent times. Amongst this esteemed panel were Robert Druessi, Chief Technology Officer at Adventist Health, Luchela Rastelli, GE Healthcare’s Global Chief Information Officer for Integrated Supply Chain and Global Services, and Russ Scoville, Head of Enterprise Data and Strategy at CareSource. Together, they shared insights on the transformative impact of AI and innovation on both operational efficiency and patient care.
August, 2025
Solving the Security Puzzle in Enterprise AI: Insights from Google Cloud Security Summit 2025
The paper captures key insights from the Google Cloud Security Summit 2025, highlighting how enterprises can unlock AI’s full potential securely. It explores Google’s “Secure by Design” approach, focusing on two pillars: AI for Security—empowering security operation centers (SOCs) with intelligent automation for faster, smarter defense—and Security for AI—protecting models, agents, and ecosystems from emerging threats. It also outlines practical strategies to balance innovation with compliance, resilience, and trust, enabling organizations to confidently scale AI initiatives and accelerate digital transformation.
September, 2025
When the Giant Learns from the Neighbor: How Global IT Providers Are Adopting Local Agility in the Nordics
The Nordic IT-services market is booming—expected to climb from US $47.9 billion in 2025 to US $57.5 billion by 2030. Yet price alone no longer wins deals. Nordic customers now want two things at once: local know-how (language, regulations, user insight) and global delivery power (large teams, round-the-clock support). This article argues that competitive advantage is shifting from pure labor-arbitrage to “local intimacy”—the ability to pair Nordic-specific domain fluency with industrialized global delivery. It outlines 4 ways multinationals are borrowing from regional champions: rapid-prototyping labs, hyper-local go-to-market tactics, near-shore GCCs, and “front-plus-scale” alliances exemplified by Tietoevry–Accenture on Google Cloud’s Arek Oy project. A side-by-side matrix reveals how global and local providers now meet in the middle on delivery footprint, governance, pricing, and scale strategy. Buyers should look for proven partnerships and speed-to-value metrics, while providers must blend proximity, ESG readiness, and global reach to stay competitive.
September, 2025
Digital Workplace Services 2025 RadarView™
The Digital Workplace Services 2025 Market Insights™ assists organizations in identifying strategic partners for workplace modernization by offering detailed capabilities for service providers. It provides a 360-degree view of key digital workplace service providers across practice maturity, partner ecosystem, and investments and innovation, thereby supporting enterprises in identifying the right service partner. The 76-page report highlights top supply-side trends in the digital workplace services space and Avasant’s viewpoint on them.
November, 2025
Strategies for Enterprises in Response to Tech Industry Layoffs
The recent spate of layoffs in the technology industry should raise questions in the mind of customers who have these vendors as essential elements of their IT landscape. These concerns also extend to service providers, who are also seeing a pullback in business and undergoing staff reductions. This Research Byte explores these issues and how business leaders should mitigate risks and take advantage of opportunities during such uncertain times.
March, 2023
What Exactly is Digital Engineering and Who is a True Digital Engineering Partner?
Both B2B and B2C products have become smarter and more connected, requiring real-time integration and interaction between hardware and software components. To develop connected products and digitize the engineering and manufacturing life cycle, enterprises need an amalgamation of product and software engineering capabilities through digital engineering. While digital engineering is a growing domain, it is crucial that the ecosystem players, especially engineering and manufacturing companies, get the essence of digital engineering right to realize its true potential.
June, 2023
Canada Digital and IT Services 2023–2024 Market Insights™
The Canada Digital and IT 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 and IT projects in the Canadian region. The report also highlights key digital transformation challenges of today that enterprises face in Canada.
August, 2023
Ethical Hotline Systems 2023 RadarView Scan™
Avasant’s Ethical Hotline Systems 2023 RadarView Scan™ helps enterprises in evaluating key vendors providing ethical hotline services. The 16-page report also highlights how vendors leverage their capabilities to provide ethical hotline services to address these challenges.
September, 2023
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