Digital Business

Joe Haugh - June 5, 2020 - 324 views

2019 was a watershed year for life sciences manufacturing. It was a year when terms such as Industry 4.0, digitization, Internet of Things (IoT), advanced analytics and cybersecurity were at the forefront of all business discussions. As we moved into 2020, no one could have predicted the COVID-19 outbreak and lasting repercussions that have sent […]

Angela Merricks - June 5, 2020 - 213 views

When I started with this thing called “Agile,” it didn’t exist. At a time when it was barely gaining popularity, I was asked to learn more about this “method” so I could come back and teach my internal team the basics of being Agile. I took a class, and the rest is history – a […]

Jennifer Green Godette - June 4, 2020 - 1587 views

As a diversity and inclusion (D&I) leader at Cognizant, I’m always planning for the next big D&I event. June, for instance, is filled with many Pride celebrations, virtual and otherwise. But instead of seeing coverage of upcoming LGBTQ+ Pride celebrations, I’m watching news coverage and having conversations with friends and family members about the senseless deaths of […]

Stephanie Bauer - June 2, 2020 - 341 views

As a woman who has spent much of her career in male-dominated industries, I’ve often received feedback that compares me with the men around me. All too often, this feedback has been geared toward molding me into the predecessor for my role, rather than angling me toward where my potential lies. Some may recognize this […]

Mark Taylor - May 27, 2020 - 236 views

For more than two decades, we’ve talked about how the experiences brands enable are the principal way they’ll compete in the market. Indeed, it was in 1998 when the Harvard Business Review published “Welcome to the Experience Economy” by Joe Pine and James Gilmore. The sad truth remains, though, that companies have not really moved […]

Allen Shaheen - May 26, 2020 - 241 views

Whether or not your business is a software company, it depends on software. The nature of that software is changing, however, which has big implications for software engineering technology, processes and culture. For example, not so long ago, most internally developed software was meant for internal use. The users were employees who looked up information […]

Vibha Rustagi - May 26, 2020 - 324 views

When it comes to belonging, numbers matter. In my first job out of college, I was one of just two women engineers out of 600 in the business practice. Eleven years later, I became CEO of itaas (a Cognizant company) and made diversity hiring a top priority. But belonging is also about much more than […]

Anil Nagaraj - May 21, 2020 - 464 views

With sales dropping rapidly due to COVID-19 lockdowns, a leading international convenience store needed recommendations on how to increase its revenue – and it needed the answers quickly.   Within five days of starting our analysis, we assessed how the business’s “basket” of top-selling items had changed. This would allow managers to ensure stores had […]

Ben Pring - May 20, 2020 - 1205 views

Many of us have now been home for 10 weeks, due to the d-mn virus. I haven’t had this long a stretch without business travel for over 20 years. Here’s how I’m holding up, where I’m at and what we can learn from this almost surreal moment in time. If you can work at home, […]

Brian Williams - May 20, 2020 - 512 views

While COVID-19 is extracting a terrible price on human life and causing significant economic hardship, it is helping to catalyze a transformation in care delivery.  As noted in my prior post, AI is improving and accelerating the discovery of new therapies. Beyond this, AI and machine learning (ML) are also transforming clinical diagnosis, by improving […]