Antonella Bonanni - February 6, 2019 - 217 views

“I was so tired, I started talking to Alexa.” I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard people refer to Alexa as something more than a digital assistant this past year. More people are talking to and asking questions of voice-activated digital assistants and cognitive-powered colleagues than ever before. Nearly 19 million homes in the U.S. […]

Robert H. Brown - June 21, 2018 - 326 views

Legend holds that a conman craftsman once made a chessboard for a king.  “Your Highness, I don’t want money for this. Or jewels. All I want is a little rice: a single grain on the first square, two grains on the second, four on the third, eight on the fourth, and so on, and so […]

Anbu Muppidathi - May 31, 2018 - 654 views

The relationship between legacy and digital systems – and those who work with them – is often misunderstood. Businesses talk about phasing out and automating the former to free up budget and resources for the latter, with the assumption that they’ll need to tolerate some level of coexistence, at least for the foreseeable future. Additionally, […]

Lester Lam - January 16, 2018 - 188 views

According to industry estimates, roughly 80% of digital initiatives ultimately fail. The reasons for these failures-to-launch abound: a risk-fearing culture, the paralysis of shifting regulations, the bog of legacy systems, and the list goes on. Nothing, however, will kill a digital transformation effort more assuredly than the failure to define a purpose. Simply put, without […]

Euan Davis - December 21, 2017 - 41 views

When they come to bury me, the epitaph on my headstone will read, “Here lies Euan Davis – the platform guy.” Any conference that I attend or speak at, I always stress that the number one rule for work in the data age is the platform. Some will roll their eyes; others are keen to learn […]

Chell Smith - November 19, 2017 - 459 views

The ability to reinvent yourself and your organization will be one of the most important competencies to have in the 21st century – which makes leadership more important than ever. Leading in today’s digital world, however, is very different from leading just 15 years ago. These are the key takeaways from Cognizant’s Women Empowered Executive […]

Pratik Maroo - August 8, 2017 - 697 views

This is the first in our blog series on “Digitizing the Human Body.” (Also see Part 2 and Part 3.)  Populating the human body with powerful technologies is no longer just a sci-fi fantasy. Existing and emerging technologies are rapidly ushering in an era of human augmentation, self-regulation, automated diagnosis and treatment, and even vast […]

Prasad Chintamaneni - June 26, 2017 - 3143 views

A recurring theme when I talk with banking leaders about the management of compliance records, contracts and other critical documents is that it is both essential and expensive work. Bank attorneys, paralegals and loan officers spend thousands of hours poring over countless pages of regulatory compliance filings, loan agreements and other records to determine whether […]

Raja Renganathan - May 3, 2017 - 1143 views

Anyone who’s worked in IT service management is well aware of the disappointment that often follows the inflated promises of process automation. The only way ITSM professionals will ever be able to focus on the growing demand for more strategic digital initiatives is to fully automate IT and business processes, not to mention meeting the […]

Anbu Muppidathi - April 19, 2017 - 108 views

Fourth of a four-part series. If you want employees to improve their digital skills as part of a digital workforce transformation, your training needs to be digitally minded, as well. It’s also vital to get employees engaged to move them in a digital direction. As explained in my previous blog posts, training needs are best […]