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Embedding Digital-First Principles in Businesses
In the fast-paced and ever-evolving world of technology, businesses constantly seek innovative ways to stay ahead of their competition. One approach that has proven to be a game-changer is the digital-first principle. This approach emphasizes putting digital technologies and strategies at the forefront of an organization’s operations, paving the way for improved efficiency, customer experience, and overall profitability of the business. In this research byte, we explore the significance of embedding digital-first principles into the core of businesses, the profound impact it can have on their growth and sustainability, and how service providers are helping to facilitate this transformation. We highlight the efforts of one such service provider, Unisys, based on its recent analyst and advisor event held in June 2023.
August, 2023
Empowering Beyond Preview: The Virtuous Cycle of Sustainability and Innovation
Although the Industrial Revolution brought economic growth and lifted people out of poverty, it also came with a price to the environment. Pollution and climate change are creating challenges for enterprises. But with a bit of imagination and leadership, today’s digital technologies can solve this problem. This topic and many more will be discussed at the Empowering Beyond Summit.
April, 2023
Empowering Canada’s Innovation Nexus Through Digital Transformation
Canadian enterprises are embracing digital technologies to cater to the surging consumer demand in leisure, retail, and recreational industries while improving operational efficiency to achieve sustainability targets. They are increasingly integrating AI, automation, and cloud technologies to develop new solution offerings and have accelerated their digital transformation programs. The pandemic further pushed the integration of digital technologies. Additionally, there is a concerted effort to establish Canada as the upcoming hub for digital talent by fostering investments and strategic partnerships with technology companies and government entities. Both demand-side and supply-side trends are covered in our Canada Digital and IT Services 2023–2024 Market Insights™ and Canada Digital and IT Services 2023–2024 RadarView™, respectively.
August, 2023
Empowering Connectivity: Why Switching to Private LTE Networks Is the Smart Move?
The demand for private wireless solutions is increasing in response to the expanding IoT landscape and the scaling of industrial operations. Manufacturing enterprises are acknowledging the imperative to transition to private wireless networks, recognizing their distinct advantages. This research byte outlines how private wireless differs from traditional Wi-Fi, highlighting key benefits and essential factors for consideration. Additionally, it sheds light on the pivotal stakeholders driving the implementation across the private LTE ecosystem, with a focus on the role of service providers. It emphasizes the necessity of private wireless for sectors prioritizing digital transformation.
February, 2024
Empowering Healthcare Payors Using Digital Technologies
In the face of challenges such as rising healthcare costs, uncertainty over healthcare reform, IT/systems integration, and alignment of incentives with healthcare providers, the healthcare payor industry is aggressively pouring digital investments and adopting cutting-edge technologies, including generative AI, advanced analytics, automation, and cybersecurity, to address these challenges. Healthcare payor companies are leveraging digital technologies to revolutionize their processes. Healthcare payor enterprises collaborate with service providers for digital transformation, which requires strong technological expertise and delivery capabilities. Both demand-side and supply-side trends are covered in our Healthcare Payor Digital Services 2024 Market Insights™ and Healthcare Payor Digital Services 2024 RadarView™, respectively.
March, 2024
Enabling Company-Wide Transformation Through Automation
Despite the maturity of intelligent automation (IA) services, enterprise investment in advanced technologies such as AI, NLP, and generative AI continues to reshape this space. Sectors such as manufacturing, retail and CPG, and healthcare and life sciences lead in IA adoption to analyze unstructured data, optimize operations, and enhance customer experiences. The rise of Gen AI has further amplified AI integration throughout the automation value chain, particularly in process mapping, AIOps, knowledge management, and back-office automation.
February, 2024
Encryption Best Practices 2024
Encryption best practices protect sensitive or confidential information, both in storage and in transit. Data encryption software and algorithms translate data into another form or code so that only those with access to a secret key—a decryption key—can read it. Banking details, health records, financial information, or other sensitive personal information must be encrypted so it cannot be intercepted, accessed, or read.
March, 2024
End-user Computing Services 2023 Market Insights™
The End-user Computing Services 2023 Market Insights™ assists organizations in identifying important demand-side trends that are expected to have a long-term impact on any end-user computing projects. The report also highlights key end-user computing challenges that enterprises face today.
September, 2023
End-user Computing Services 2023 RadarView™
The End-user Computing Services 2023 RadarView™ assists organizations in identifying strategic partners for end-user computing by offering detailed capability and experience analyses for service providers. It provides a 360-degree view of key end-user computing service providers across practice maturity, partner ecosystem, and investments and innovation, helping enterprises identify the right service partner. The 70-page report highlights top supply-side trends in the end-user computing services space and Avasant’s viewpoint on them.
September, 2023
End-user Computing Services: Enhancing End-user Experience and Productivity
Enterprises are undergoing a transformative shift from traditional service-level agreements (SLAs) to experience-level agreements (XLAs) in their end-user computing services contracts. It allows them to focus on parameters impacting business outcomes, such as service accuracy, technology adoption, and employee experience. They leverage AI-driven solutions to optimize device management by predicting refresh and maintenance needs and RPA-enabled chatbots to empower end users with self-service options. End-user computing service providers can help organizations optimize their device life cycle, perform persona-based analytics, deploy sustainability accelerators, and virtualize workplace assets. Both demand-side and supply-side trends are covered in Avasant’s End-user Computing Services 2023 Market Insights™ and End-user Computing Services 2023 RadarView™, respectively.
September, 2023
Engineering and Construction Digital Services 2024 Market Insights™
The Engineering and Construction 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 engineering and construction industry. The report also highlights key challenges that enterprises face today.
January, 2024
Engineering and Construction Digital Services 2024 RadarView™
The Engineering and Construction Digital Services 2024 RadarView™ can help engineering and construction 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 47-page report also highlights top market trends in the engineering and construction industry and Avasant’s viewpoint.
January, 2024
Enlightened Disruption – Empowering Beyond 2024 Keynote by Kevin Parikh
Enterprise Architecture Adoption and Best Practices 2023
While large IT project failures generate headlines, an even larger risk may be the incoherence that comes from developing new systems and capabilities without an overall plan. Enterprise architecture is an IT best practice that provides a description of the organization in its desired state. This allows developers to build an infrastructure, data model, systems, and process that are aligned with that organizational architecture.
October, 2023
Enterprise Architecture Popular but Inconsistently Practiced
Enterprise architecture is an IT best practice that has been around since the 1980s. It provides a description of the organization in its desired state. With the obvious benefits of this approach, you would think more enterprises would make heavy use of it. However, while it is one of the most adopted practices in our study, most organizations practice it inconsistently, availing only a portion of its benefits. This Research Byte discusses the importance of enterprise architecture and its adoption trends.
October, 2023
Enterprise Architecture Tops List of Most Mature Best Practices
Avasant has released its major annual study on 35 IT management best practices, with enterprise architecture topping our list of most mature practices. This Research Byte highlights some of our findings on the most mature practices, along with an overview of the contents of the full study. The full study analyzes the growth and maturity of all 35 best practices, which are grouped into five major categories: IT governance, IT financial management, IT operational management, IT security and risk management, and application development.
March, 2023