Latest Reports

• Financial Services Digital Services 2024 Market Insights™

  The Financial Services Digital Services 2024 Market Insights™ assists organizations in identifying important demand-side trends that are expected to have a long-term impact in the future for any digital projects in the financial services space. The report also highlights key challenges that enterprises face today.

  October, 2024

• Embracing Turbulent Markets by Enabling New Investment Avenues and Driving Down Costs

  In today’s turbulent financial markets, the business landscape is rapidly evolving, driven by multiple factors, including the Great Wealth Transfer from older generations to younger, tech-savvy investors. This shift drives demand for smart advisory services facilitated by advanced analytics and personalized strategies. Additionally, there is a growing appetite for alternative investments and digital assets as investors diversify portfolios and new asset classes necessitate novel trade life cycles. Amid this evolution, the financial landscape is seeing a decline in M&As and initial public offerings (IPOs), focusing on reducing operational costs. Regulatory changes, such as the shift toward T+1 settlement cycles and the rise of ESG scores as an investment criterion, open new avenues as firms leverage digital technologies, including generative AI, to navigate these challenging times. Both demand-side and supply-side trends are covered in our Financial Services Digital Services 2024 Market Insights™ and Financial Services Digital Services 2024 RadarView™, respectively.

  October, 2024

• Financial Services Digital Services 2024 RadarView™

  The Financial Services Digital Services 2024 RadarView™ can help financial services 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 92-page report also highlights top market trends in the financial services space and Avasant’s viewpoint.

  October, 2024

• Artificial Intelligence: Should Robots Have Rights? Part 2

  The article examines advancements in AI and robotics, focusing on Tesla’s Optimus and Boston Dynamics’ Atlas. These robots now use AI to navigate, interpret emotions, and engage in lifelike conversations. As they become more human-like, ethical concerns emerge regarding robot rights, emotional dependency, workplace integration, and privacy. The article stresses the need for regulations to address these challenges and balance the integration of robots into society while protecting human autonomy.

  October, 2024

• The Next Frontier: Charting the Future of Freight and Logistics Services

  The freight and logistics industry is witnessing a growing demand for comprehensive end-to-end services. As customers push for more integrated supply chain management, logistics providers are being driven to deliver holistic solutions, encompassing everything from freight forwarding to last-mile delivery. This demand is reshaping the freight and logistics landscape, compelling enterprises to adopt advanced technologies, improve operational efficiency, and ensure accountability.

  October, 2024

• Takeaways from LTTS Analyst Day

  The manufacturing landscape is undergoing a significant shift. Traditionally focused on operational metrics such as cost, revenue, and product uptime, the industry now prioritizes customer experience, operational excellence, and supply chain resilience. This is posing a dual challenge for service providers, pushing them to bring in digital technologies while addressing cost escalation issues through approaches such as outcome-based service models.

  October, 2024

• Shokworks’ Blockchain Breakthroughs

  Companies are faced with a multitude of technologies to invest in from AI, blockchain, data analytics, automation, and more. But seeing past the technology and understanding how to deploy it to get real-world business results is key. When engaging a provider to help, this becomes doubly important. There are many companies that dabble in blockchain, but few know how to get the best results. One of these is Shokworks Inc., a Dallas-based company that is pioneering creative, viable solutions that span industries, from sports to education to entertainment and more.

  October, 2024

• Digital CX Services 2024 Market Insights™

  The Digital CX Services 2024 Market Insights™ assists organizations in identifying important demand-side trends that are expected to have a long-term impact on any digital CX services project. The report also highlights key implementation challenges that enterprises face today.

  October, 2024

• Digital CX Services: Driving Personalization and Streamlining CX Operations Leveraging AI and Analytics

  Enterprises are focusing on implementing a unified customer experience (CX) strategy and eliminating data silos by investing in emerging technologies and tools such as CRM, data management platforms, customer data platforms, marketing automation platforms, and business intelligence tools to improve customer insights, enable omnichannel content personalization, increase customer loyalty, streamline operations, and offer proactive customer support. Service providers are also developing generative AI-powered industry-specific solutions targeting use cases such as streamlining marketing and call center operations for healthcare, personalizing marketing campaigns, and offering AI assistants for guided selling and self-service for telecommunications.

  October, 2024

• Digital CX Services 2024 RadarView™

  The Digital CX Services 2024 RadarView™ assists organizations in identifying strategic partners for digital CX services by offering detailed capability and experience analyses for service providers. It provides a 360-degree view of key digital CX services providers across practice maturity, partner ecosystem, and investments and innovation. The 75-page report highlights top supply-side trends in the digital CX services space and Avasant’s viewpoint on them.

  October, 2024

• IT Due Diligence Indispensable in the Divestiture Process

  In the rapidly evolving digital landscape, assessing inherent and separation risks in IT during a divestiture is critical. Effective IT due diligence is vital to identify and mitigate hindrances to value creation. It ensures IT aligns with business strategy, supports processes, enhances customer experiences, and drives growth. Poor IT management can disrupt operations, waste resources, and prevent innovation, making robust due diligence essential. An effective IT Due Diligence process can help identify risk comprehensively, and estimate the size and spend on IT.

  September, 2024

• Application Modernization Services 2024 Market Insights™

  The Application Modernization Services 2024 Market Insights™ assists organizations in identifying important demand-side trends that are expected to have a long-term impact on any application modernization projects. The report also highlights key application modernization challenges that enterprises face today.

  September, 2024