Consulting

Nicolette du Toit-Liller - April 5, 2019 - views

Cloud spending is riding high. Enterprises already run nearly three-quarters of workloads in the cloud. Public-cloud uptake, in particular, is surging – much to the joy of tech giants such as Amazon, which now generates close on 60% of its operating income from web services. According to IDC, public-cloud spending is now growing twice as […]

Euan Davis - March 26, 2019 - views

The U.S. is the world leader in software, and Asia Pacific leads in hardware. So where does Europe – which lacks an Amazon, Google or Samsung – stand in the digital landscape? In a new study, Europe—Digital Superpower or Second-rate Peripheral Player, Cognizant investigated where work of the future was scaling and how Europe fares […]

Dietmar Neumann - March 14, 2019 - views

In an era of digital transformation, the insurance industry is experiencing up close and personal – and sometimes painfully – exactly what disruptive change means. New business models are overturning decades-old ways of doing business. Abraham Lincoln reportedly once said “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” Here are a couple […]

Mohit Sawant - February 25, 2019 - views

In value-based healthcare, insurance reimbursements depend on the quality of outcomes. It isn’t exactly the “no win, no fee” model of accident and injury lawyers, but one key aim is certainly to clamp down on escalating cost. In this model, companies such as pharma companies and medical device manufacturers are rewarded for better outcomes (or […]

Simon Erdmann - February 20, 2019 - views

Is your company hiring for a flying car developer? Virtual identity defendant? Maybe not just yet – but keep your eyes open. These are a few of the career paths that Cognizant, in its second 21 Jobs of the Future report, sees on the horizon. Work changes fast. After, all, ten years back, how many […]

Andreas Griesser - February 7, 2019 - views

Managing product lifecycles and innovation is like juggling a couple of dozen balls – on stage, with a critical audience. It might entail launching products in multiple countries, maintaining support from development to retirement, integrating processes across any number of platforms and providers, and applying analytics to keep decisions sharp every second of the way. […]

Romain Malouvier - January 28, 2019 - views

January 21st 2019 was the last date for existing Money Market Funds to transition to the new Money Market Funds Regulation (MMFR) regime. MMFR will transform the risk management framework of MMF managers by introducing new categorisation, a dedicated filing and a complete review of the risk and credit management processes. It will also change […]