Latest Reports

• From Legacy to Leadership: How State and Local Governments Are Powering Public Services through Technology

  State and local governments across the US and Europe are accelerating digital transformation to redefine public service delivery, improve governance, and boost citizen engagement. This technological evolution is integral to achieving resilient, efficient, and equitable public sector outcomes. This article examines the complexity and real-world impact of modernization across critical government functions by weaving enterprise-scale deployments and concrete numerical data into each transition stage.

  September, 2025

• Super-Intelligence or Super-Humans? The Defining Contest of Our Age

  As AI advances toward Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), humanity faces a paradox: driving machines toward greater autonomy while striving to preserve their own dominance. Emerging signs of AI self-preservation and behavioral manipulation highlight potential existential risks. At the same time, humans pursue their own evolution—extending life through biotechnology, personalized medicine, and brain-machine interfaces. This whitepaper explores the converging trajectories of AI and human enhancement, examining how both paths redefine competitiveness, survival, and the future balance between man and machine.

  September, 2025

• Intelligent Sourcing to Autonomous Sites: How AI is Redefining Construction

  The engineering and construction (E&C) industry has historically lagged in digital adoption, ranking among the least digitized sectors globally. While industries such as manufacturing built robust digital backbones, construction remained anchored in legacy systems and labor-intensive practices. Avasant’s IT Spending Trends in Construction and Trade Services 2024 highlights that IT budgets in construction are not only smaller in proportion to revenue but also stretched thin across fragmented organizations and project-based models. For small and mid-sized contractors, the industry’s backbone, these constraints often limit investment in next-generation platforms.

  September, 2025

• Utilities Digital Services: Reinventing Utilities for a Connected, Renewable World

  The utilities industry is accelerating its shift toward smarter, more connected operations as it adapts to rising demand for renewable integration and distributed energy. Providers are upgrading grid systems to handle two-way energy flows, improve local distribution, and enhance flexibility through advanced data insights. AI-powered tools are strengthening forecasting, optimizing maintenance, and enabling automated responses to outages and infrastructure issues. While balancing cost, reliability, and regulatory expectations remains a challenge, these innovations are paving the way for greater efficiency, stronger customer engagement, and a more resilient, sustainable energy network.

  August, 2025

• Democratizing AI Development: From Technical Silos to Enterprise-wide Enablement

  Democratizing AI development marks a shift from centralized CoEs to enterprise-wide participation, enabling business units to actively engage with AI tools. Initially, adoption was confined to data science teams, with business users limited to consuming prebuilt insights. The progression from rule-based automation to AI/ML tools has empowered nontechnical users to develop cognitive applications without writing code. Generative AI (Gen AI) and agentic AI have accelerated this trend, allowing functional teams to interact with models and build entire process workflows with AI agents. As decision-making decentralizes, enterprises must ensure governance through granular controls, explainability, and resilient fallback mechanisms.

  August, 2025

• Data Lakehouse Platforms: Enabling Democratized Data Access with Robust Governance

  As enterprises scale data-driven initiatives, data lakehouse platforms are gaining prominence for their ability to unify diverse data workloads and support advanced analytics and AI requirements. The vendor landscape continues to expand, with platforms enhancing capabilities to meet rising demands for real-time analytics, AI-ready data pipelines, and enterprise-wide data democratization. To cater to this demand, vendors are strengthening their offerings with unified data governance layers, support for open data formats, and seamless handling of multimodal data workflows. These advancements enable organizations to modernize legacy architectures, unlock new AI and analytics use cases, and drive more agile, governed, and cost-efficient data ecosystems.

  August, 2025

• Navigating Trade Alignment and the Impact of Gen AI on Freight and Logistics Enterprises

  Freight and logistics enterprises are defending margins by renegotiating contracts, adopting flexible analytics-driven pricing, diversifying revenue through the rail/air/sea mix, and expanding value-added services via digital platforms. They are tackling volatility with AI-powered scenario planning, while adding dynamic pricing engines and integrated cargo tracking for real-time control. To accelerate capability buildout, they are acquiring robotics, IoT cargo tracking, and advanced planning platforms. They are also strengthening sustainability and resilience through climate-scenario modeling, satellite/IoT monitoring, and disruption-risk analytics, while raising ESG targets with low-carbon fleets, renewable-energy warehousing, and supplier audits. Freight and logistics companies are redesigning networks around nearshoring corridors with alternative hubs and network-optimization software, and orchestrating multimodal flows across air, trucking, and warehousing to capture growth on new trade lanes. They collaborate with service providers to drive digital transformation, which requires strong technological expertise and delivery capabilities. Both demand-side and supply-side trends are covered in our Freight and Logistics Digital Services 2025 Market Insights™ and Freight and Logistics Digital Services 2025 RadarView™, respectively.

  August, 2025

• Navigating Global Headwinds with AI-led Transformation and GCC-driven Innovation

  Global enterprises are navigating a complex macroeconomic environment shaped by inflation, tariffs, and geopolitical pressures while accelerating digital transformation. AI, cloud, and cybersecurity are central to enterprise strategies, with AI budgets shifting toward multi-agent systems, orchestration frameworks, and advanced automation. Organizations are looking to embrace outcome-led models, creating new roles, and recalibrating talent strategies. In response, service providers, known as Digital Masters, are pivoting their playbook around three pillars—AI-led innovation, specialized talent, and GCC enablement. They are increasingly investing in proprietary AI assets, scaling talent-as-a-service models, and enabling end-to-end GCC transformation to drive innovation, efficiency, and resilience.

  August, 2025

• 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

• 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

• From Strategy to Business Value: AI Prioritization Considerations for CAIOs and CTOs

  Strategic AI prioritization is undergoing a fundamental shift as enterprises move from experimentation to scaled, business-aligned transformation. Traditional scoring models and ROI frameworks are no longer sufficient to evaluate the complexity of generative AI and agentic AI initiatives. Instead, a multidimensional approach is emerging, one that aligns use case selection with enterprise goals, assesses talent readiness, and embeds responsible AI practices from the start. By adopting this integrated model, CAIOs and CTOs can drive scalable, sustainable, and outcome-focused AI adoption across the organization.

  August, 2025

• Embracing Generative AI and Intelligent Automation to Transform the Travel Life Cycle and Meet Evolving Digital Demands

  The travel, transportation, and hospitality industry rapidly embraces digital transformation, focusing on AI, immersive technologies, cybersecurity, and sustainability. Business enterprises leverage AI and Gen AI for customer engagement through personalized itineraries, dynamic pricing, real-time bookings, and operational efficiency in fleet, route planning, and workforce support. Immersive technologies (AR/VR/XR) enhance customer experience via virtual tours, pre-trip engagement, and employee training simulations. To support these innovations, companies are modernizing legacy IT systems while strengthening cybersecurity with biometrics, predictive threat monitoring, and encrypted digital infrastructures to build digital trust. In parallel, the industry drives sustainability and net‑zero goals through blockchain- and IoT-enabled carbon tracking, predictive maintenance, and smart automation across facilities. With the help of these innovative steps, the industry is rapidly moving toward a more personalized, secure, immersive, and eco‑conscious travel ecosystem. Both demand- and supply-side trends are covered in Avasant’s Travel, Transportation, and Hospitality Digital Services 2025 Market Insights™ and Travel, Transportation, and Hospitality Digital Services 2025 RadarView™, respectively.

  August, 2025