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Canada Digital Services 2024 RadarView™
The Canada Digital Services 2024 RadarView™ can help enterprises based in Canada craft a robust strategy based on regional 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. The 86-page report also highlights top market trends in Canada and Avasant’s viewpoint on them.
November, 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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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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Proactive Risk Management in Complex Vendor Networks
Working with multiple vendors offers key advantages, such as cost savings and quality improvements. More importantly, engaging multiple vendors helps reduce reliance on a single supplier, which protects the organization from potential supply chain disruptions, financial instability, or operational failures on behalf of one vendor. However, this benefit comes with the challenge of managing a more complex network of vendor relationships. To mitigate risks effectively in a multi-vendor environment, businesses need clear contract management, strategic vendor selection, greater transparency, and rigorous performance monitoring. Balancing risk reduction with operational efficiency is key to ensuring successful mitigation without disrupting the organization.
July, 2025
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Beyond Efficiency: How GCCs Are Becoming Strategic Assets
Global Capability Centers (GCCs), once seen primarily as cost-effective back offices, are undergoing a profound transformation. Traditionally focused on transactional tasks and operational efficiency, GCCs are now emerging as strategic enablers that drive innovation, agility, and enterprise-wide value creation.
August, 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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Breaking Down Data Silos: Why CRM Integration Is Now a Boardroom Priority
Interoperability isn’t a technical buzzword. It’s a business enabler. When systems connect seamlessly, departments collaborate more effectively, insights reach leadership faster, and customer engagement becomes more personalized and scalable.
September, 2025
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The IT Consultant’s Playbook: Human-Centered Success in IT Divestitures Why the Consultant’s Mindset Matters
As enterprises accelerate carve-outs to unlock value, IT divestitures have become strategic imperatives—demanding more than just frameworks. Divestitures can lead to significant financial and operational consequences. A failed divestiture, as seen with Meta's $262 million loss on the sale of Giphy due to regulatory pressure, contrasts sharply with successful ones. For instance, in 2023, Fidelity Information Services improved its financial standing and stock price by selling a 55% stake in Worldpay to GTCR for $11.7 billion, showcasing the strategic benefits of a well-executed divestiture
October, 2025
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AI in Media: Solving the Challenges of Attention and Output
In an age where content is unlimited, but attention is scarce, media companies face a growing paradox: how to deliver stories that capture attention without drowning audiences in noise. At the same time, the pressure to produce content faster has intensified, particularly in journalism where deadlines often cut into depth. Together, these twin challenges—the demand for personalized engagement and the need for speed—have forced the industry to search for new solutions. Increasingly, the answer lies in artificial intelligence. Far from replacing creativity, AI is emerging as a tool to repurpose content, personalize experiences, and streamline production, allowing creators to focus on what matters most: telling stories that resonate. Industry leaders, including those speaking at Avasant’s “Empowering Beyond Summit,” have echoed this view—arguing that AI is becoming not a threat, but an enhancer of creativity (Avasant Summit Video, 2025).
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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Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Region Digital Services 2024 RadarView™
The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Region Digital Services 2024 RadarView™ can help enterprises based in the GCC to craft a robust strategy based on regional 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. The 91-page report also highlights top market trends in the GCC region and Avasant’s viewpoint on them.
February, 2024
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Internet of Things Services 2024 RadarView™
The Internet of Things Services 2024 RadarView™ assists organizations in identifying strategic partners for IoT platforms and services implementation by featuring detailed capability and experience analyses for leading service providers. It offers a 360-degree view of key providers for IoT services across practice maturity, partner ecosystem, and investments and innovations, thus supporting enterprises in identifying the right transformation partner. The 78-page report also highlights top supply-side trends in the IoT space and Avasant’s viewpoint on them.
April, 2024
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Benelux Digital Services 2024 Market Insights™
The Benelux 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 the Benelux region. The report also highlights key challenges that the region’s 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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