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Tune in to the latest episode of Powering Product Innovation as Nimish Shrivastava, Senior Director of Product Management for Qualcomm, joins Cognizant’s Deb Eastman, VP & head of Platforms and SaaS, for a lively discussion about Qualcomm's Car-to-Cloud platform.
Take a deep dive into product development’s role in transforming Microsoft into an AI-led, experience-centric organization. Nathalie D’Hers, corporate vice president of Microsoft Digital, takes a deep dive into Microsoft’s evolution to an AI-led, experience-centric organization.
Join us for part 2 of our series highlighting outstanding female leaders among Cognizant's manufacturing clients. In this episode, we interview Kelly Aronson, Chief Digital Officer at Andersen Corporation. Kelly is life-long technologist, time guru, and producer of executive leadership content. Hear her unique path to manufacturing, her thoughts on how "values in action" can shape a career, and the issues she feels the next generation of manufacturers will solve.
Cognizant’s team of customer experience experts sit down to explore the findings of the recently published Forrester Consulting study, “Enable Intelligent Orchestration to Drive Differentiation and Growth,” commissioned by Cognizant. The study underscores how intelligent orchestration – a powerful strategy that leverages technology, data and AI – can revolutionize customer experience delivery. Navigating evolving customer expectations, organizational demands and challenging markets all pose a threat for major corporations looking to implement large scale transformations. Cognizant’s experts weigh in on how organizations can address these challenges, build a robust CX strategy and leverage intelligent orchestration to optimize their delivery and accelerate their growth.Read the full study here: cognizant.com/intelligentorchestration.
Cognizant’s team of customer experience experts sit down to explore the findings of the recently published Forrester Consulting study, “Enable Intelligent Orchestration to Drive Differentiation and Growth,” commissioned by Cognizant. The study underscores how intelligent orchestration – a powerful strategy that leverages technology, data and AI – can revolutionize customer experience delivery. Navigating evolving customer expectations, organizational demands and challenging markets all pose a threat for major corporations looking to implement large scale transformations. Cognizant’s experts weigh in on how organizations can address these challenges, build a robust CX strategy and leverage intelligent orchestration to optimize their delivery and accelerate their growth.Read the full study here: cognizant.com/intelligentorchestration.
Cognizant’s team of customer experience experts sit down to explore the findings of the recently published Forrester Consulting study, “Enable Intelligent Orchestration to Drive Differentiation and Growth,” commissioned by Cognizant. The study underscores how intelligent orchestration – a powerful strategy that leverages technology, data and AI – can revolutionize customer experience delivery. Navigating evolving customer expectations, organizational demands and challenging markets all pose a threat for major corporations looking to implement large scale transformations. Cognizant’s experts weigh in on how organizations can address these challenges, build a robust CX strategy and leverage intelligent orchestration to optimize their delivery and accelerate their growth.Read the full study here: cognizant.com/intelligentorchestration.
Learn how cloud, AI, and automation are elevating the innovation game. Prasad Sankaran, EVP, Software and Platform Engineering, discusses the importance of software product engineering in today's business environment.
Explore what happens to the product lifecycle when gen AI is brought into the workflow. Naveen Sharma, SVP & Global Practice Head of AI & Analytics at Cognizant discusses the transformative power of AI in the business world.
Discover how tech companies can use FinOps to reduce costs, improve utilization, and reduce rates. FinOps expert Scott Schulman delves into strategic cloud cost optimization with host Deb Eastman.
This podcast is the first in a 3-part series highlighting outstanding female leaders among Cognizant's manufacturing clients. In this episode, we interview Audrey Sherman of 3M. Audrey has an inspiring multi-decade career in which 150+ patents have been granted to her name. In the interview, she shares her unique path to manufacturing, her thoughts on the role of diversity in manufacturing, and the issues she feels the next generation of manufacturers will solve.
The Creator Economy is changing the way brands and consumers interact, forging new avenues for more authentic and impactful partnerships. In the second installment of this series, we delve deeper into the perspective of creators and what they're looking for when collaborating with brands. Jenna is excited to welcome special guest Casey Bennett, a CrossFit expert, fitness coach, and brand ambassador. Casey's transition from an intern to a personal trainer, and now to a successful content creator, provides an inspiring and insightful narrative. She's committed to empowering people to become healthier, happier versions of themselves, both face-to-face and digitally. Casey emphasizes the importance of authenticity, relatability, and sustainability in her work. Adhering to a mantra of "creating content that seeks to educate and be relatable," her unique viewpoint offers valuable insights for brands on effective collaboration and partnership with creators.
Join us in this insightful episode as our host David Fearne, Cognizant’s Global Director for Generative AI, converses with Emily Fridman, a strategy and design maven known for her contributions to top brands like Coca-Cola, Walt Disney, Lululemon, and others. Together, they'll dive into the realm of generative AI and its transformative impact on the retail industry. Expect an in-depth exploration of AI's potential to revolutionize retail, from creating personalized experiences to fueling sustainable practices. Whether you're an AI enthusiast, retail professional, or a keen learner, this conversation is packed with enlightening perspectives.
Join us in this insightful episode as our host David Fearne, Cognizant’s Global Director for Generative AI, converses with Emily Fridman, a strategy and design maven known for her contributions to top brands like Coca-Cola, Walt Disney, Lululemon, and others. Together, they'll dive into the realm of generative AI and its transformative impact on the retail industry. Expect an in-depth exploration of AI's potential to revolutionize retail, from creating personalized experiences to fueling sustainable practices. Whether you're an AI enthusiast, retail professional, or a keen learner, this conversation is packed with enlightening perspectives.
Most companies fail to recognize the importance of building a solid data foundation to understand their impact on environmental issues and manage them effectively. Companies must augment their sustainability strategy with a data strategy to reduce overhead costs. In this episode, we explore how brands can leverage technology to operationalize sustainability goals and develop a sustainable business model. Delve deeper into the world of sustainable business practices with Dana Vannen Anderson, Industry Plus North America Advisory Services Practice Lead at Cognizant, and learn how companies can make a positive impact on the environment while achieving long-term success.
LOHAS consumers — short for Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability — represent more than one-third of American adults. A remarkably savvy segment, the LOHAS customer is both well-informed and hard to impress – which means that brands need to be ambitious in their goals and authentic in their approach to build lasting relationships with this group. So how do brands win the hearts and minds of the LOHAS shopper? There are three areas of critical importance — circularity, carbon neutrality and transparency. In this episode, we will deep dive into transparency with Anca Novacovici Lunn, Senior Principal Sustainability Advisor in Cognizant’s North America Sustainability Services Advisory. Listen to hear why brands are struggling to meet their goals in the space, how they can overcome these obstacles, and why tackling the challenge is essential in meeting the demands of today’s changing consumer.
LOHAS consumers — short for Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability — represent more than one-third of American adults. A remarkably savvy segment, the LOHAS customer is both well-informed and hard to impress – which means that brands need to be ambitious in their goals and authentic in their approach to build lasting relationships with this group. So how do brands win the hearts and minds of the LOHAS shopper? There are three areas of critical importance — circularity, carbon neutrality and transparency. In this episode, we will deep dive into transparency with Anca Novacovici Lunn, Senior Principal Sustainability Advisor in Cognizant’s North America Sustainability Services Advisory. Listen to hear why brands are struggling to meet their goals in the space, how they can overcome these obstacles, and why tackling the challenge is essential in meeting the demands of today’s changing consumer.
Why should organizations be blending customer and employee experience and what does that mean for brands in today’s world? Hear John McVay, Head of Digital Experience Solutions for the Americas at Cognizant discuss how this methodology can ensure both topline growth and employee retention. It’s clear why a synchronized experience between customers and employees is imperative for customer-facing workers, but it’s also invaluable for employees whose roles contribute indirectly to the customer experience itself.
Why should organizations be blending customer and employee experience and what does that mean for brands in today’s world? Hear John McVay, Head of Digital Experience Solutions for the Americas at Cognizant discuss how this methodology can ensure both topline growth and employee retention. It’s clear why a synchronized experience between customers and employees is imperative for customer-facing workers, but it’s also invaluable for employees whose roles contribute indirectly to the customer experience itself.
The pandemic has rapidly accelerated consumer adoption of online purchasing. To meet customer expectations, brands need PIM solutions to support the entire process of collecting, validating, enriching, and syndicating product information. What does product information management (PIM) mean for your brand and your success in the marketplace? Anup Prasad, VP and Market Leader of Retail and Consumer Goods, Cognizant and Stephanie Wiles, Senior Director of Consulting in Retail and Consumer Goods, Cognizant, discuss and dive into why PIM is key to staying relevant with consumers, how it is evolving, and why your brand could lose market share if it doesn’t embrace PIM today.
For media streaming service providers, search plays a crucial role in connecting relevant content to customers. It needs to be constantly tested basis user insights and performance. The focus should not just be on what consumers want via search but what more they can find from the media company’s existing listings.
Tune into our final installment of our three-part podcast series featuring Chris Kuthan, Global Head Of Business Development for direct to consumer at Amazon Web Services, and Simon Adams, Chief Product Officer at Gracenote, a Nielsen company and Tiran Dagan, Chief Digital Officer and Head Of Industry Solutions for Communications, Media and Technology at Cognizant, who discuss the importance of enhancing search’s role and improved content browsing capabilities.
One of the key challenges for media companies offering direct-to-consumer streaming services is delivering content that customers want or would prefer to watch. Moreover, cross-content search still remains a challenge and just redesigning the user interface will not suffice.
Listen on as we bring you a three-part podcast series featuring Chris Kuthan, Global Head Of Business Development for direct to consumer at Amazon Web Services, and Simon Adams, Chief Product Officer at Gracenote, a Nielsen company and Tiran Dagan, Chief Digital Officer and Head Of Industry Solutions for Communications, Media and Technology at Cognizant, who emphasize on the need of bettering content delivery.
Globally, media companies providing direct-to-consumer streaming services operate in an extremely competitive market led by AI, data and engineering. Every advantage counts where sales is tightly intertwined to technology-driven subscriber experience.
Listen on as we bring you a three-part podcast series featuring Chris Kuthan, Global Head Of Business Development for direct to consumer at Amazon Web Services, and Simon Adams, Chief Product Officer at Gracenote, a Nielsen company and Tiran Dagan, Chief Digital Officer and Head Of Industry Solutions for Communications, Media and Technology at Cognizant, who share their take on building a better streaming service using technology and data.
Today, just about every company is sitting on a pile of potentially valuable data. Anil Nagaraj, Head of Data Engineering, Cognizant, and Kevin Miller, VP Global Systems Integrators, Snowflake, look at the growing data marketplace to see how organizations are monetizing that data. Listen now to explore how businesses across all industries—including telecoms, healthcare, and financial services—are benefiting from the data marketplace and data-sharing capabilities. Hear, for example, how some banks are teaming up with retailers to create unique data sets, which can give valuable information on the buying behaviours of customers. And discover how the data marketplace can ensure supply chain visibility in unpredictable times.
Anil Nagaraj, Head of Data Engineering, Cognizant, and Kevin Miller, VP Global Systems Integrators, Snowflake, delve into some of their favourite customer success stories. Whether it’s mobilizing data to create a business advantage, efficiently replacing end-of-life, on-premises platforms, or overcoming fragmented, siloed data, these real-world insights highlight how companies can make their cloud migration a success, while avoiding some common pitfalls. Listen now to discover how the Cognizant-Snowflake partnership is helping businesses streamline data access, governance, and visibility. Hear how you can unify all your data to make it easy to share and discover, and to execute a range of different workloads.
Anil Nagaraj, Head of Data Engineering, Cognizant, and Kevin Miller, VP Global Systems Integrators, Snowflake, look at how the two companies are collaborating to enable businesses to enhance their data maturity and make better decisions—faster, repeatedly, and more predictably. They explore how the Cognizant-Snowflake partnership is empowering businesses to modernize while maximizing their efficiency gains. And they discuss the Center of Excellence that’s helping organizations successfully and safely use third-party data. Listen now to learn how your business can achieve the outcomes you expect from the cloud and your digital transformation journey.
The Future Starts Now book is designed to get us thinking about the futures we don’t want to live in, as well as those that we do we want to create – and to suggest some actionable solutions we can implement today to make sure we end up in the future we want for ourselves and our future generations. In this podcast, you will hear expert views on the future of business, technology and society. We encourage you to visit https://thefuturestartsnowbook.com and develop ideas about the future trajectory of your life, work and everything in between.
We are witnessing an unprecedented eagerness to go digital across industries accelerated by the pandemic. As a result, the gap between degrees and required skills is widening, traditional white-collar roles are getting outdated, and education as we know it needs to be overhauled, calling for a greater collaboration between corporate and educational sectors.
Tune into our final installment of the ‘Timeline of Next’ podcast series where Vinnie Mirchandani, acclaimed author, blogger and tech watcher, Beth Porter, CEO of Riff Analytics and Managing Partner of Esme Learning, Manish Bahl, an AVP in the Cognizant Center for the Future of Work and Clay Griffith, Director of Product Marketing, Cognizant Softvision, discuss skills versus degrees, the need to go beyond traditional white-collar roles, the return of apprenticeships and how to fill the skills gap.
In the post-pandemic world, we can anticipate new workplace innovations, technology-driven office-space strategies, likeminded communities coming together to ideate and innovate, on-demand onsite collaboration and a machine-augmented workforce.
Tune into part two of our three-part ‘Timeline of Next’ podcast series where Vinnie Mirchandani, acclaimed author, blogger and tech watcher, Beth Porter, CEO of Riff Analytics and Managing Partner of Esme Learning, Manish Bahl, an AVP in the Cognizant Center for the Future of Work and Clay Griffith, Director of Product Marketing, Cognizant Softvision, discuss the post-covid future of the office, learning to cohabit with machines and what to expect when we get back to the office.
In the next decade, the world will be a very different place. Accelerated by the pandemic, new intriguing ideas are emerging on the future of work. Technologies like AI, machine learning and automation are already bringing radical changes that will spawn further out into the future.
Tune into our three-part podcast series ‘Timeline of Next’ where Vinnie Mirchandani, acclaimed author, blogger and tech watcher, Beth Porter, CEO of Riff Analytics and Managing Partner of Esme Learning, Manish Bahl, an AVP in the Cognizant Center for the Future of Work and Clay Griffith, Director of Product Marketing, Cognizant Softvision, discuss the impact of “now” on the future of education, work, economies and life itself.
Remote work may have been the norm during the COVID-19 pandemic, but has its limitations when it comes to innovating through collaboration.
Tune into part three of our three-part podcast series ‘Redesigning Work for the Post-pandemic Age’ where Oxford University’s Carl Benedikt Frey, acclaimed author and economist joins Ben Pring, Co-founder and Director of Cognizant’s Center for the Future of Work and Mariesa Coughanour, AVP & Head of Cognizant’s Intelligent Automation Advisory practice, discuss the difference between onsite and distributed IT development, the demise of traditional offices and the upcoming automation wave.
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted a skill-based technology bias where work that could be done remotely remained unhindered during lockdowns while a few others were at a disadvantage.
Tune into part two of our three-part podcast series ‘Redesigning Work for the Post-pandemic Age’ where Oxford University’s Carl Benedikt Frey, acclaimed author and economist joins Ben Pring, Co-founder and Director of Cognizant’s Center for the Future of Work and Mariesa Coughanour, AVP & Head of Cognizant’s Intelligent Automation Advisory practice, discuss the technology-induced inequalities in the labor market, the upcoming productivity boost from automation and its impact on IT innovation.
The definition of work has completely changed since the COVID-19 mainstreamed remote working. The emergence of automation, AI, robotics and machine learning has also redefined work, efficiency, innovation and what it will take for businesses to thrive in future.
Tune into part one of our three-part podcast series ‘Redesigning Work for the Post-pandemic Age’ where Oxford University’s Carl Benedikt Frey, acclaimed author and economist joins Ben Pring, who leads Cognizant’s Center for the Future of Work and Mariesa Coughanour, AVP & Head of Cognizant’s Intelligent Automation Advisory practice, discuss the need for humans to effectively and productively co-exist with software robots and how the widespread deployment of automation technologies will help businesses succeed in the post-pandemic era.
In this episode of Lev's podcast ‘In the Clouds,’ we cover all things SFMC and Sports. Lev Managing Director, Ryan McCambridge, and Account Director, Abbey Sullivan, join our hosts to discuss how teams are scoring big with Salesforce Marketing Cloud. In their past time, sports teams historically have been the last to adapt to digital trends but these organizations have quickly realized they are being left behind. Hear what the industry leaders like the NBA and XFL leagues are doing to stay relevant and optimize the fan experience. Learn how teams are using Salesforce to develop a 360 view of the customer and the most critical pieces to streamline the brand experience.
The COVID-19 pandemic has mainstreamed concepts like work from home (WFH) and remote working that were once thought to be a future construct. As technology, space and work intersect rapidly, accelerated by the coronavirus crisis, industry practitioners look for answers on where the future of work is heading and places that will become next destinations of innovation and ideation.
Tune into our podcast ‘Changing Dynamics of the Future of Work’ where Jessie Feller Hahn, Executive Director at Meeting of the Minds talks to Robert Hoyle Brown, VP at the Cognizant Center for the Future of Work on future workforce dynamics and where work is headed next. This is a reproduction of the webinar titled ‘How Cities Are Preparing for the Future of Work’ that originally appeared on www.meetingoftheminds.org.
Technology is the driving force behind the ongoing fourth industrial revolution that is exponentially transforming the world, work and workplaces. However, a few locations across the globe stand out as hotbeds of innovation, creativity and sustainability.
Tune into part two of the ‘Jobs of the Future’ podcast series where the host Jessica Lessin, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, The Information, Sinead Bovell, Futurist & Founder, WAYE, and Cognizant Center for the Future of Work’s Robert Hoyle Brown, Vice President and former Senior Manager Desmond Dickerson, take a deep dive into what makes certain locations the place of the future of work.
In the age of automation, artificial intelligence and algorithms it is difficult to predict where jobs of the future will appear. The technology is quickly replacing many traditional job roles to give rise to new ones. A recent report by the Cognizant Center for the Future of Work outlines where many of these new jobs will appear.
Listen on as we bring you a two-part podcast series on ‘Jobs of the Future’ where the host Jessica Lessin, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, The Information, Sinead Bovell, Futurist & Founder, WAYE, and Cognizant Center for the Future of Work’s Robert Hoyle Brown, Vice President and former Senior Manager Desmond Dickerson, discuss key learnings from the 21 Places of the Future report and how different regions are responding to the ongoing technology transformation.
The Formula One racing is probably the most competitive motorsports on the planet where cutting-edge technologies meet sharpest skills. A few microseconds to milliseconds separate a winner from rest. After 60-plus years, the iconic luxury British sports car manufacturer, Aston Martin, returned to Grand Prix racing with the launch of its new AMR21 Formula One car. Cognizant is the official title partner for the Aston Martin Team.
Listen on as podcast host Jason Stein of Automotive News’ Daily Drive sits down with Otmar Szafnauer, CEO and Team Principal at Aston Martin Cognizant Formula One Team and Gaurav Chand, CMO at Cognizant to discuss the business rationale behind the partnership and how technology will ultimately yield lap-time benefits.
This track is a reproduction of the podcast titled ‘How data drives the pursuit of performance in Formula One’ that originally appeared on www.autonews.com.
In early 2020, everything changed for businesses and people soon after the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic. One of the first and most hard-hit industries was travel and hospitality. Amidst the crisis, IHG faced a business calamity as demand fell across its global properties; it took a slew of measures to counter the pandemic.
Listen on as George Turner, Chief Commercial and Technology Officer for IHG Hotels and Resorts, shares how the pandemic impacted IHG and how his team turned innovative ideas into practical, prudent solutions – all for the sake of creating a more resilient business that will continue to earn the confidence and brand loyalty of its guests worldwide.
The enthusiasm around AI has gone through a metamorphosis, especially after COVID-19 pandemic changed how we look at technologies becoming integral to businesses and humans. A range of opinions exist around techs like AI from enthusiasm to outright fear of bots replacing human labor. A lot rests on the shoulders of leadership and government from educating people on new-age techs like AI to ensuring availability of proper training.
Tune into part 3 of ‘The Modern Business Imperative’ podcast series where our panel of experts John Reiners – Managing Editor, Thought Leadership, Oxford Economics and Cognizant Center for the Future of Work’s Ben Pring – VP and Managing Director and Euan Davis – AVP, discuss the expected role of AI, and the need to extend human capabilities with machine intelligence, as well as the requisite skills, attitudes and government assistance required to thrive in modern business.
To become a modern business and deliver the experiences that customers have come to expect in the digital era, one has to first do away with traditionally slow legacy systems and adopt techs like cloud to be truly customer-centric. The leadership across organizations is expected to drive this business modernization effort to converge vision with reality.
Tune into part two of ‘The Modern Business Imperative’ podcast series where our panel of experts John Reiners – Managing Editor, Thought Leadership, Oxford Economics and Cognizant Center for the Future of Work’s Ben Pring – VP and Managing Director and Euan Davis – AVP, define what modern business entails in the digital era.
The COVID-19 pandemic has completely changed the narrative around digital; embracing digital today will ensure future bottom-line success. The future belongs to those organizations that understand the on-going shift early on and adapt quickly.
To understand how organizations worldwide are navigating this tricky transition — as well all things digital — the Cognizant Center for the Future of Work partnered with Oxford Economics to survey 4,000 executives at leading organizations around the globe and across industries.
Tune into our 3-part podcast series ‘The Modern Business Imperative’ where our panel of experts John Reiners – Managing Editor, Thought Leadership at Oxford Economics, Ben Pring – VP and Managing Director and Euan Davis – AVP of the Cognizant Center for the Future of Work, explore the increasing primacy of digital and assess what’s next for the future of work.
After navigating the intricate maze that 2020 put us through, we just entered 2021 with a disparate business landscape where accelerated digital transformation is the norm and the future of work is changing. In this metamorphosis, the role of HR is also shifting and it needs to go beyond the usual back-office function to stay relevant in the new reality. Amidst the rise of bots, automation and algorithms, the HR needs to be re-skilled to become the agent of transformation instead of becoming obsolete.
Tune into this podcast on the role of HR in the future of work featuring Enrique Rubio, Founder & CEO, Hacking HR, and Rob Brown, Vice President at the Cognizant Center for the Future of Work.
The Pandemic Response Challenge is a $550k, four month challenge that focuses on the development of data-driven AI systems to predict COVID-19 infection rates and to prescribe Intervention Plans (IPs) that regional governments, communities, and organizations can implement to minimize harm when reopening their economies.
In this podcast episode, Jason Stoughton, a veteran technologist, AI enthusiast, author and entrepreneur, speaks to Toby Phillips, the executive director of the Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker at the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford and Bret Greenstein, Senior Vice President of AI and Analytics at Cognizant, on Xprize Pandemic Response Challenge. To learn more, visit cognizant.com/ai.
The content of this episode is a reproduction of Jason Stoughton’s podcast episode titled ‘Xprize: Pandemic Response Challenge’ that was originally posted on www.thepulseofai.com.
The rise of voice isn't going to replace visual interface but instead, complement it in a dual-modality model. Given this development, brands must look at voice holistically and add it to their UX and UI strategy. As consumers increasingly begin to interact with voice, brands can leverage this shift to have greater influence on purchase decisions of consumers and improve their top-line.
Tune into part three of our podcast series ‘From Eyes to Ears: Getting Your Brand Heard in the New Age of ‘Voice’’ where our panel of experts Jason Pedone, Senior Vice President, Mobile Banking & Emerging Channels, Truist; Mark Taylor, Senior Vice President, Cognizant Digital Experience, and Manish Bahl, Associate Vice President, Cognizant Center for the Future of Work, explore voice and visual becoming a part of a dual-modality strategy, investment priorities and the top-line influence of voice on sales.
A key outcome of the COVID-19 pandemic is the emergence of voice-assisted technologies as an alternative to touchscreen enabled interfaces as people are wary of contracting the virulent pathogen. At the same time, people are increasingly concerned around data privacy and security as they interact with voice interfaces across devices and digital platforms. It is a brand’s responsibility to build trust when it comes to managing people’s data and that their policies around it are upfront and clear.
Tune into part two of ‘From Eyes to Ears: Getting Your Brand Heard in the New Age of ‘Voice’’ podcast series where our panel of experts Jason Pedone, Senior Vice President, Mobile Banking & Emerging Channels, Truist; Mark Taylor, Senior Vice President, Cognizant Digital Experience, and Manish Bahl, Associate Vice President from Cognizant’s Center for the Future of Work, discuss the importance of ensuring data privacy, building trust, and the skills need to make voice technology truly brand expanding.
One of the major fallouts in the ongoing pandemic is people abstaining from touchscreen interfaces as they got wary of touching surfaces in fear of contracting the coronavirus. It led to an increase in the use of voice assistant services, which got brands thinking that voice might become an entry point for interactions and help clients engage better. To learn how organizations are preparing for a brand landscape dominated by voice, Cognizant’s Center for the Future of Work surveyed 1,400 top marketing and IT executives at leading companies across Asia Pacific and the Middle East.
Tune into a three part podcast series ‘From Eyes to Ears: Getting Your Brand Heard in the New Age of ‘Voice’’ where our panel of experts Jason Pedone, Senior Vice President, Mobile Banking & Emerging Channels, Truist; Mark Taylor, Senior Vice President, Cognizant Digital Experience, and Manish Bahl, Associate Vice President from Cognizant’s Center for the Future of Work, explore how brands can forge ahead in the new age of voice.
The COVID-19 pandemic has shown why every industry needs to accelerate its technology investments, in turn offering a chance for telcos to form deeper associations with industries, while innovating and expanding IoT and 5G solution capabilities, and not limited to the connectivity experience alone.
Welcome to part two of the podcast series where our panel of experts, Tiran Dagan, Chief Digital Officer for Cognizant, Brian Burk, Global Leader of Healthcare, Health Insurance and Life Sciences, Verizon, Bob Pike, General Manager, Intel Smart Edge, and Craig Donald, CIO of the UK Football Association, explore how the convergence of 5G and IoT can create better experiences and lower costs and most importantly, generate new value for businesses.
Traditionally, the core business of telcos was to provide widespread connectivity. However, with the advent of Internet of Things and then 5G arriving, the business landscape has completely changed for telcos. To stay relevant and competitive, they have to deal with an extensive network of sensors, ultra-fast connectivity and solve challenges for industries from healthcare, life sciences to media, logistics, entertainment, etc.
Tune into a two-part podcast series where our panel of experts, Tiran Dagan, Chief Digital Officer for Cognizant, Brian Burk, Global Leader of Healthcare, Health Insurance and Life Sciences, Verizon, Bob Pike, General Manager, Intel Smart Edge, and Craig Donald, CIO of the UK Football Association, examine the business to vertical or B2V shifts that are underway due to 5G and IoT.
To embark on a successful AI journey, a business needs the right people with the right talent and excellence ingrained in the organization’s culture. How do you optimize talent for AI? It is important to optimize data at a fundamental level before feeding into AI for better results. On realizing how crucial data is to powering AI and explore its full potential, Cognizant sponsored a challenge with the XPRIZE Foundation to apply algorithmic thinking to mitigate and manage the ongoing COVID-19 crisis.
Tune into part three of our podcast series ‘Upping Your Data Game: How Leaders Are Getting Greater Bang from AI’ featuring Ben Pring, Co-founder and Managing Director of Cognizant’s Center for the Future of Work, Bret Greenstein, Senior Vice President of Cognizant’s AI & Analytics Practice, Damon Caiazza, Director of Digital Strategy and Innovation at AbbVie, and Michele Goetz, Vice President & Principal Analyst at Forrester. They discuss how to solve for AI talent, share insights on GPT-3, and AI practice & governance challenges.
Simply rolling out an AI solution isn’t going to ensure ROI; there is no one-size-fits-all approach. Multiple discrete AI algorithms should be coordinated and orchestrated in line with business processes and AI models to ensure the desired business outcomes complement each other. Business leaders should also continuously monitor and challenge AI’s performance and fine-tune algorithms so their AI solution doesn’t deviate from the anticipated performance outcome needed to ensure ROI.
In this second installment of our three-part podcast series ‘Upping Your Data Game: How Leaders Are Getting Greater Bang from AI’, Ben Pring, Co-founder and Managing Director of Cognizant’s Center for the Future of Work, Bret Greenstein, Senior Vice President of Cognizant’s AI & Analytics Practice, Damon Caiazza, Director of Digital Strategy and Innovation at AbbVie, and Michele Goetz, Vice President & Principal Analyst at Forrester, discuss the mainstreaming of machine intelligence, causality clarity and workarounds for AI’s success.
Artificial Intelligence or AI has gone mainstream for many businesses; the application of technology like machine learning has changed the way personal and professional interactions take place. To learn how companies perceive AI along with challenges they face and opportunities they gain, Cognizant sponsored a study of 1200 executives across industries worldwide.
Tune into our three-part podcast series on Upping Your Data Game: How Leaders Are Getting Greater Bang from AI. The series features Ben Pring, Co-founder and Managing Director of Cognizant’s Center for the Future of Work, Bret Greenstein, Senior Vice President of Cognizant’s AI & Analytics Practice, Damon Caiazza, Director of Digital Strategy and Innovation at AbbVie, and Michele Goetz, Vice President & Principal Analyst at Forrester. They discuss what it takes to deliver AI at scale, overcome steep technological and skills challenges, and deliver on its business potential.
5G connectivity has effectively changed the landscape for IoT as new possibilities and capabilities emerge for latter, especially accelerated by the COVID-19 crisis. The high speed connectivity of 5G, IoT interconnectedness, and mesh of machines sharing and processing data at unprecedented speeds, will unlock new growth opportunities for businesses while making them more resistant to uncertainties and events like the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
Tune into part 3 of our podcast series on Achieving IoT Escape Velocity, featuring Eddie Gotherman, Senior Director, Enterprise IoT, Bright Wol,f Michele Pelino, Principal Analyst, Infrastructure and Operations, Forrester and Randal Kenworthy, Vice President, IoT and Engineering Services, Cognizant. They discuss where IoT is heading, the evolution of autonomous buildings and COVID-19’s impact on IoT roll-outs.
Before the world could get a complete sense of the havoc that the COVID-19 pandemic could cause, Cognizant preemptively partnered with XPRIZE to launch a pandemic response challenge, by inviting the world’s greatest AI minds to find innovative ways to reopen societies and restart economies, using an AI model capable of generating data-driven, actionable plans.
In this podcast episode, Jason Stoughton, a veteran technologist, AI enthusiast, author and entrepreneur, speaks with Amir Banifatemi of Xprize and Babak Hodjat of Cognizant on a new XPRIZE Challenge which is designed to develop AI driven insights and solutions to help government officials make better policy decisions around closures and re-opening efforts in response to COVID-19. To learn more, visit cognizant.com/ai.
The content of this episode is a reproduction of Jason Stoughton’s podcast episode titled ‘Xprize and Cognizant Team Up to Address Covid with AI’ that was originally posted on www.thepulseofai.com.
When organizations take the IoT journey, everything may look easy and promising at first, but for scale and success, certain levers must be prioritized over others. From organizational enablement, having a scientific approach toward reaching IoT goals to knowing what KPIs matter, there are specific factors that organizations must address first before rolling out their IoT strategy.
Tune into part 2 of our podcast series on Achieving IoT Escape Velocity, featuring Eddie Gotherman, Senior Director, Enterprise IoT, Bright Wolf … Michele Pelino, Principal Analyst, Infrastructure and Operations, Forrester … and Randal Kenworthy, Vice President, IoT and Engineering Services, Cognizant. They discuss how to prioritize levers that drive IoT success at scale, as well as meaningful KPIs and ways to connect all the dots along the way.
Because AI has diffused into so many aspects of our lives and work so seamlessly, it is easy to overlook how significant it will be for the rest of our working lives. In our new Work Ahead research series, executives appear to grasp that something big is going on. Join Cognizant experts as we discuss how you can use AI to build a successful future of work.
Cognizant’s Work Ahead research series provides insight and guidance on how organisations are evolving to the next stage of the digital economy. With the rise of new machines, new generations of talent and new business models based on insight and intelligence, the rules of global competition have changed. Now, these tectonic shifts are being further catalysed and accelerated by the global pandemic.
A new survey shows that IoT at scale is a critical path, but many companies struggle to realize value. In fact, over 50% of companies piloting or deploying IoT are struggling to realize returns. according to according to a recent commissioned study conducted by Forrester for Cognizant.
Tune into our three-part podcast series on Achieving IoT Escape Velocity, featuring Eddie Gotherman, Senior Director, Enterprise IoT, Bright Wolf … Michele Pelino, Principal Analyst, Infrastructure and Operations, Forrester … and Randal Kenworthy, Vice President, IoT and Engineering Services, Cognizant. They discuss how organizations can identify their IoT maturity to ensure that strategies and deployments pay off more quickly, how to activate key IoT levers to accelerate organizational change, and best practices to apply from real-world success stories.
The auto industry is going through an accelerated metamorphosis driven by Data and AI. AI's applications in the automotive industry is not restricted to self-driving cars, but extends to a host of activities from managing workflows to identifying component defects at the manufacturing unit.
In this podcast episode, Jason Stoughton, a veteran technologist, AI enthusiast, author and entrepreneur, speaks with Jay Gopinath, GM of Advanced Tech, Platforms, Innovation Data and Analytics at Toyota North America and Bret Greenstein, SVP and Global Head of AI and Analytics at Cognizant, about the sweeping changes that data and AI are driving in the over century old automotive industry. To learn more, visit cognizant.com/ai.
The content of this episode is a reproduction of Jason Stoughton’s podcast episode titled ‘Data and AI are changing the Auto Industry Forever’ that was originally posted on www.thepulseofai.com.
Globally, work has increasingly gone virtual for many, accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. The sudden shift from working in groups to working from anywhere has given rise to many challenges and newfound opportunities. This is where technology comes into the picture and has the power to transform a virtual workplace into a more inclusive nest where everyone thrives.
Tune into part three of our ‘Belonging’ podcast series where Gavriella Schuster, Corporate Vice President, One Commercial Partner at Microsoft, and Alan Alper, Vice President of Global Thought Leadership Programs at Cognizant, discuss how technology enhances inclusion and creates a more inclusive economy.
Amidst the COVID-19 crisis, top companies are those that not only weathered the pandemic successfully but also demonstrated how progressive leadership and policies can drive inclusiveness. Such organizations have a diverse leadership team who are transparent and do not shy away from expressing honestly and openly. They even make room for differently-abled contributors and ensure that no employee is disenfranchised.
Listen to part two of our ‘Belonging’ podcast series that featuring Gavriella Schuster, Corporate Vice President, One Commercial Partner at Microsoft, and Alan Alper, Vice President of Global Thought Leadership Programs at Cognizant, who discuss the top-down impact of leadership culture, inclusion and intersectionality, microaggressions, the human nature of work, vulnerability and empathy amid COVID-19.
For most of us, a large part of our adult lives is spent in a professional work environment, either physical or virtual. Humans as we know are social animals and have a constant urge to feel like we belong, even at work. However, this need is largely ignored by employers who still tend to believe that this will happen without any intervention and they do not have an active role to play. To better understand the importance of belonging at work, Cognizant and Microsoft partnered to gather insights from nearly 11,000 full-time workers worldwide.
Tune into our three part podcast series on ‘Belonging’ that features Gavriella Schuster, Corporate Vice President, One Commercial Partner, at Microsoft, and Alan Alper, Vice President of Global Thought Leadership Programs at Cognizant, as they discuss our research findings and how we can collectively nurture belonging in the workplace.
A 9-to-5 workweek is almost synonymous with work and productivity. However, its relevance to our current times is significantly different from what it was originally intended – fixed work timings and rules have outlived their purpose and are a byproduct of the bygone industrial revolution. Freedom, flexibility and personal space now define the future of work and help employees perform better and be more effective.
In part 3 of our Future of Work with Twitter podcast series, our host Deborah Eastman, Head of Cognizant’s Internet Business Unit, Donald Hicks, a Vice President at Twitter, and Robert Brown, a Vice President within Cognizant’s Center for the Future of Work, discuss what it means to take care of your employees and how that results in many other indirect benefits.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, technology has emerged as a major force in shaping the future of customer experience, communication and delight. Timely investments in technologies by organizations will aid in decision-making and drive performance. As everything is going digital, technology will also ensure that erroneous information get filtered while meaningful conversations flourish.
In part 2 of our Future of Work with Twitter podcast series, our host Deborah Eastman, Head of Cognizant’s Internet Business Unit, Donald Hicks, a Vice President at Twitter, and Robert Brown, a Vice President within Cognizant’s Center for the Future of Work, discuss the role technology plays in ensuring positive customer experience.
We are only beginning to realize the scale of impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on our lives both personally and professionally. However, it will eventually return to pre-pandemic times, but with a myriad of changes. A permanent work-from-home option like Twitter has offered, will enable its employees to tap into their creative side from the comfort of their homes.
Tune in to a three-part podcast series on the ‘Future of Work with Twitter’ in which our experts Deborah Eastman, Head of Cognizant’s Internet Business Unit, Donald Hicks, a Vice President at Twitter, and Robert Brown, a Vice President within Cognizant’s Center for the Future of Work, discuss where the future of work is heading in the post COVID-19 era.
As we slowly get back to normalcy of getting back to work in a layered approach, we begin to put building controls in place. The idea is to mitigate infectious diseases that spread indoors, especially via air. We all have some idea about air filtration systems and other sanitization methods, but then what is new and where to start?
In this Part 4 of the Safe Buildings podcast series, our experts Euan Davis, AVP from the Cognizant Center for the Future of Work and Joseph Allen, acclaimed author and Assistant Professor of Exposure Assessment Science at the Harvard School of Public Health, as well as a leading expert on urban resilience, discuss ways to fight COVID-19, newfound air cleaning technologies and approaches to future workplaces, and offer tips on where to start.
The looming concerns on safe buildings have garnered a new level of attention since the coronavirus pandemic hit our shores. Some of the obvious questions around monitoring, tuning-up, and maintaining indoor air quality have been the key discussion points. What's even more important is to ensure that indoor air remains clean and healthy consistently over years to come.
In this Part 3 of the Safe Buildings podcast series, our experts Euan Davis, AVP from the Cognizant Center for the Future of Work and Joseph Allen, acclaimed author and Assistant Professor of Exposure Assessment Science at the Harvard School of Public Health, as well as a leading expert on urban resilience, discuss simple ways to ensure healthy indoor air and the benefits of creating healthy buildings.
Data is moving from the IT department into the business units and the heavy lifting of digital transformation going forward is really going to be around creating a culture that is data driven and that treats data as a first class citizen.
In this podcast episode, Jason Stoughton, a veteran technologist, AI enthusiast, author and entrepreneur, speaks with Phil Le-Brun, former CIO of McDonalds and now Enterprise Strategist at AWS, and Bret Greenstein, SVP and Global Head of AI and Analytics at Cognizant, on how companies can create a data centered and driven culture, and why treating data as a first class citizen is important to this process. To learn more, visit cognizant.com/ai.
The content of this episode is a reproduction of Jason Stoughton’s podcast episode titled ‘Creating a Data Driven Culture’ that was originally posted on www.thepulseofai.com.
As restrictions around COVID-19 ease, employees and customers will look up to businesses for ensuring their safety indoors. Key focus will be given to factors, such as health performance indicators in buildings, mitigation of risk exposure, identifying leadership responsible for healthy buildings, and making a business case for healthy buildings.
In Part 2 of the Safe Buildings podcast series, our experts Euan Davis, AVP from the Cognizant Center for the Future of Work and Joseph Allen, acclaimed author and Assistant Professor of Exposure Assessment Science at the Harvard School of Public Health, as well as a leading expert on urban resilience, talk about the nitty-gritties around the creation of safe and healthy buildings.
Face masks? Check. Distancing? Check. Floor markers and acrylic dividers? Check and check. But as businesses reopen post-pandemic, more comprehensive safety measures are needed to inspire lasting trust and confidence in employees and customers.
We bring you a 4-part podcast series featuring Euan Davis, AVP from the Cognizant Center for the Future of Work and Joseph Allen, acclaimed author and Assistant Professor of Exposure Assessment Science at the Harvard School of Public Health, as well as a leading expert on urban resilience, who go at length to discuss smarter and safe ways to reopen and manage a healthy workplace.
As companies increasingly look to leverage data in their business processes, and as data has moved from the IT department to the business units, the need to understand the value of data, set up processes and build a culture to include business partners in the use of data has become critical to a company's success.
In this podcast episode, Jason Stoughton, a veteran technologist, AI enthusiast, author and entrepreneur, speaks with Pallab Deb, Head of Partner Solutions and AI Partnerships at Google Cloud and Bret Greenstein, SVP and Global Head of the AI and Analytics Practice at Cognizant, about the value of data. These two thought leaders offer insights, advice and real world examples. To learn more, visit cognizant.com/ai.
The content of this episode is a reproduction of Jason Stoughton’s podcast episode titled ‘What is the Value of Data?’ that was originally posted on www.thepulseofai.com.
In the new world, historical data models have been made obsolete by the disruption caused by COVID-19; leaders are trying to figure out how to navigate the new world.
In this podcast episode, Jason Stoughton, a veteran technologist, AI enthusiast, author and entrepreneur, speaks with JG Chirapurath, VP Azure Data, Artificial Intelligence & Edge and Bret Greenstein, SVP and Global Head of the AI and Analytics Practice at Cognizant, on how business leaders can use data in times of rapid change. These two thought leaders also offer insights, advice and real world examples to help you address this challenge and thrive. To learn more, visit cognizant.com/ai.
The content of this episode is a reproduction of Jason Stoughton’s podcast episode titled ‘Using Data in Times of Rapid Change’ that was originally posted on www.thepulseofai.com.
Data perishability is always an issue but it gains significance in times of rapid change. The COVID-19 has shown just how volatile the world can be, and of course volatility wreaks havoc on historical data models. As business leaders accelerate their focus on data, they are realizing that they need to take different approaches to derive maximum value from their data.
In this podcast episode, Jason Stoughton, a veteran technologist, AI enthusiast, author and entrepreneur, speaks with two executives from Cognizant - Bret Greenstein, SVP and Global Head of the AI and Analytics practice and Babak Hodjat, VP of Evolutionary AI, on how companies should be looking at their data in times of rapid change. They further dig down into the issues around data perishability, explore ways leaders should be adjusting to a volatile world and how Cognizant’s approach using Evolutionary AI helps solve this problem. To learn more, visit cognizant.com/ai.
The content of this episode is a reproduction of Jason Stoughton’s podcast episode titled ‘Combating Data Perishability in a Volatile World’ that was originally posted on www.thepulseofai.com.
Countries are rushing to create national AI strategies that will ensure they dominate the field of AI for the foreseeable future. This involves investing in research, fostering and encouraging partnerships between government, academia and business; and training our current workers as well as our young people in the skills they need to fill well-paying jobs of the future. AI is built on data, so we also need to find a responsible way to collect and use data which respects the privacy of US citizens while allowing breakthroughs in AI technologies.
In this podcast episode, Jason Stoughton, a veteran technologist, AI enthusiast, author and entrepreneur, speaks with Congressman Fred Lucas (R-OK) and Bret Greenstein of Cognizant, on creating a national AI strategy. To learn more, visit cognizant.com/ai.
The content of this episode is a reproduction of Jason Stoughton’s podcast episode titled ‘Creating a National AI Strategy’ that was originally posted on www.thepulseofai.com.
The concept of remote work had already taken root before COVID-19, as a result of the benefits it delivered. The pandemic has only accelerated the transition. Now that a majority of work has moved to ‘work from anywhere’, what is next? Where is the future of work? What are some the real-life challenges we need to account for?
Welcome to the Part 2 of the Remotopia podcast series where our experts, moderator Desmond Dickerson, a Futurist within Cognizant’s Center for the Future of Work, Suzanne George, the Chief Architect of Cognizant Digital Business’s Virtual Workspace and Amanda Sabreah, Founder & CEO of Staat, discuss a range of subjects around the billowing virtual workplace – from questions to ask when the workplace goes virtual, through tapping new talent pools, reallocating savings from virtualization, to finding discipline and work-life balance.
COVID-19 has redefined the future of work by relocating work from offices to homes and other settings. Even before COVID-19, Remotopia—work from home and from third spaces—was emerging as a place of the future. But now is the time for your organization to experiment and fine-tune remote working because, in a post-COVID world, Remotopia is where people will want to be.
We bring you a 2-part podcast series that features moderator, Desmond Dickerson, a Futurist within Cognizant’s Center for the Future of Work, Suzanne George, the Chief Architect of Cognizant Digital Business’s Virtual Workspace and Amanda Sabreah, Founder & CEO of Staat, who deliver practical tips and draw on real-world examples of how some organizations are building their very own Remotopias today to excel tomorrow.
We all know that AI will eliminate some jobs, create many new jobs and will fundamentally change all jobs. To prepare our current workers, as well as those who are in school and yet to enter the workforce, for the new and exciting jobs of the future we need a concerted effort between government and business.
In this podcast episode, Jason Stoughton, a veteran technologist, AI enthusiast, author and entrepreneur, speaks with Congressman McNerney (R-CA) and Bret Greenstein, Senior Vice President and Head of the AI and Analytics Practice at Cognizant, about the Future of Work in a world quickly being transformed by Artificial Intelligence. To learn more, visit cognizant.com/ai.
The content of this episode is a reproduction of Jason Stoughton’s podcast episode titled ‘Government and Business Perspectives on the Future of Work’ that was originally posted on www.thepulseofai.com.
As the role of AI becomes predominant globally, there is a call within the US to take on a larger role in AI, embrace AI-driven economy, and prepare the workforce for a transition to AI. There is also a need to develop a national AI strategy that allows the nation to compete against countries that have different views and restrictions around the collection and use of data.
In this podcast episode, Jason Stoughton, a veteran technologist, AI enthusiast, author and entrepreneur, speaks with Congressman Will Hurd of Texas and Bret Greenstein of Cognizant, to discuss what a national AI strategy should look like here in the United States. To learn more, visit cognizant.com/ai.
The content of this episode is a reproduction of Jason Stoughton’s podcast episode titled ‘The US needs an effective National AI Strategy and Congressman Will Hurd is helping lead the charge’ that was originally posted on www.thepulseofai.com.
Evolutionary Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies are making it possible to discover entirely new objects and behaviors to maximize a given objective and yield solutions that do not yet exist. With the help of massive datasets, machine learning, powerful and distributed computational capacity, Evolutionary AI can help businesses augment decision-making and create new opportunities.
In this podcast episode, Jason Stoughton, a veteran technologist, AI enthusiast, author and entrepreneur, speaks with Stephanie Forrest and Risto Miikkulainen, about Evolutionary AI: What it is, how it is being used today, the challenges it faces, the opportunities it offers and what its future might entail. To learn more, visit cognizant.com/ai.
The content of this episode is a reproduction of Jason Stoughton’s podcast episode titled ‘Deep Dive Discussion into Evolutionary AI’ that was originally posted on www.thepulseofai.com.
As we make rapid progress in AI, experts have always questioned the creative possibilities with the technology. Likewise, akin to evolution in nature, open-ended algorithms could offer profound prospects in setting off artificial intelligence's own evolution on a computer.
In this podcast episode, Jason Stoughton, a veteran technologist, AI enthusiast, author and entrepreneur, speaks with Kenneth Stanley of OpenAI, and Babak Hodjat, VP of Evolutionary AI at Cognizant, about creativity, novelty search, Evolutionary AI, open endedness and all things in between. To learn more, visit cognizant.com/ai.
The content of this episode is a reproduction of Jason Stoughton’s podcast episode titled ‘Creativity and Open Endedness in AI’ that was originally posted on www.thepulseofai.com.
When it comes to Artificial Intelligence (AI), there are diametrically contrasting views on it. Some believe that AI is going to take over jobs and give rise to machine dominance over humans while others look at AI as means to improving lives.
In this podcast episode, Jason Stoughton, a veteran technologist, AI enthusiast, author and entrepreneur, speaks to Dr. Jordan Pollack and Babak Hodjat, preeminent thought leaders in the field of AI and Evolutionary AI specifically, and discuss the theoretical and practical aspects of AI along with myths surrounding it. To learn more, visit cognizant.com/ai.
The content of this episode is a reproduction of Jason Stoughton’s podcast episode titled ‘Demystifying AI’ that was originally posted on www.thepulseofai.com.
Accurate prediction via machine learning (ML) has always been a challenge for even experienced data scientists. However, AutoML will change the face of ML-based offerings at a core level, suited for all kinds of complex scenarios.
In this podcast episode, Jason Stoughton, a veteran technologist, AI enthusiast, author and entrepreneur, speaks to Quoc Le and Risto Miikkulainen on AutoML and the future direction of AI. Risto is an associate VP of Evolutionary AI at Cognizant and also a professor at the University of Texas. Quoc Le needs is one of the preeminent thought leaders in AI today and is known for many things including co-founding Google Brain and as the person behind AutoML. To learn more, visit cognizant.com/ai.
The content of this episode is a reproduction of Jason Stoughton’s podcast episode titled ‘AutoML and the Future of AI’ that was originally posted on www.thepulseofai.com.
The travel industry is experiencing unprecedented disruption. What does the current situation teach us about how complex networks respond to unexpected challenges? In the second episode of this two-part series, David Womack, Cognizant’s Head of Experience Strategy, talks to members of KLM Mainport and TU Delft Hyperloop about building resilient networks. We specifically discuss the future of multi-modal transportation and how industry giants, like KLM and innovators such as Hyperloop are finding common ground through enabling a seamless travel experience.
The travel industry is experiencing unprecedented disruption. What does the current situation teach us about how complex networks respond to unexpected challenges? In the first episode of this two-part series, David Womack, Cognizant’s Head of Experience Strategy, talks to members of KLM Mainport and TU Delft Hyperloop about building resilient networks and macro-trends transforming the industry. We specifically discuss the future of multi-modal transportation and how industry giants, like KLM and innovators such as Hyperloop are finding common ground through enabling a seamless travel experience.
Rethinking the use of technology to counter challenges and chaos caused by the COVID-19 pandemic is top of mind for every decision maker. The new normal has pushed enterprises to enable remote workforce an overnight reality and move data to cloud. Enterprises that use this crisis to their advantage by transforming and reinventing themselves with technology will indeed emerge stronger.
In this fourth and final installment of our 4-part podcast series, our expert panelists Paul Roehrig, Head of Strategy & Growth at Cognizant Digital Business, and guest speaker, J.P. Gownder, VP & Principal Analyst at Forrester share their “no-regret” recommendations for enterprises seeking shelter from the COVID-19 pandemic, and ideas on how bounce back stronger.
For many enterprises, the COVID-19 pandemic has shown that consumer experience takes precedence, where software becomes the only means of customer interaction during this crisis. The need of the hour is to create software that offers intuitive and seamless usability. Data is another front that can aid organizations to turn chaos into opportunity.
In the third installment of our 4-part podcast series, our expert panelists Paul Roehrig, Head of Strategy & Growth at Cognizant Digital Business, and guest speaker, J.P. Gownder, VP & Principal Analyst at Forrester, share their “no-regret” recommendations for enterprises seeking cover from the COVID-19 crisis, and catalysts to emerge stronger from the prolonged pandemic.
The coronavirus outbreak has led to a host of learnings and opportunities to rethink on the benefits of work from home, the use of technology to effectively steer change, the need for application modernization and the role technology can play in unlocking capital.
In the second installment of our 4-part podcast series, our expert panelists Paul Roehrig, Head of Strategy & Growth at Cognizant Digital Business, and guest speaker, J.P. Gownder, VP & Principal Analyst at Forrester, share their “no-regret” recommendations for enterprises seeking cover from the COVID-19 crisis, and catalysts to emerge stronger from the prolonged pandemic.
The global COVID-19 pandemic has shaken the foundation of businesses in ways unimaginable until recently. The epidemiological, professional and socioeconomic impact due to the crisis requires unique ways to cope with the unfolding epidemic. Enterprises have started to accelerate digitization of core business processes and functional areas. Organization leaders have also stepped on the gas in addressing imminent operational challenges.
We bring you a 4-part podcast series featuring Paul Roehrig, Head of Strategy & Growth at Cognizant Digital Business, and guest speaker, J.P. Gownder, VP & Principal Analyst at Forrester, who discuss the various moves that enterprises are taking to deflect the challenges presented by COVID-19 and emerge stronger.
As businesses and society continue to rely on AI, concerns around trust and explainability have become more apparent. Future adoption of AI can be impacted by a failure to successfully address these issues. In this scenario, Evolutionary AI can be a key tool in helping create more trustworthy AI.
In this podcast episode, Jason Stoughton, a veteran technologist, AI enthusiast, author and entrepreneur, speaks with world-renowned AI thought leaders Joydeep Ghosh and Risto Miikkulainen on a wide range of subjects centered around the issue of Trustworthiness in AI and ways that top companies and scientists are successfully addressing this challenge. To learn more, visit cognizant.com/ai.
The content of this episode is a reproduction of Jason Stoughton’s podcast episode titled ‘Trustworthiness in AI: Featuring Joydeep Ghosh and Risto Miikkulainen’ that was originally posted on www.thepulseofai.com.
We’ve been well on the road to the future of work for a while, and it has to travel straight through the human resources function to come to pass. Meanwhile, the black swan event of the COVID-19 crisis has compressed time like an accordion, and the future is NOW for HR (while seeming to shred “the now of work” before our very eyes). This is HR’s moment of truth to lead organizations to a post-contagion world.
Join Rob Brown from the Cognizant Center for the Future of Work as he and Future Workplace’s Managing Partner Jeanne Meister in broad discussion of new HR roles ranging from Human Bias Officer to Chief Purpose Planner. If you’re an HR professional, you never know – one day soon, one of these jobs MAY be yours!
The global COVID-19 pandemic has pushed many to ask the question “where is AI in this fight”? The challenge with a new pandemic is the lack of a large amount of training data, which AI initiatives require. A project developed at Cognizant is the closest to answering questions raised around AI's response to the pandemic.
In this podcast episode, Jason Stoughton, a veteran technologist, AI enthusiast, author and entrepreneur, speaks with Babak Hodjat and Risto Miikulainen, on how a system developed as part of a project by them uses evolutionary AI which requires less data, utilizes creativity and goes beyond forecasting to basically providing advice.
In addition to Babak and Risto, Bret Greenstein, who is the Senior Vice President and Global Head of the Ai and Analytics Practice at Cognizant, also joins the conversation. To learn more, visit cognizant.com/ai.
The content of this episode is a reproduction of Jason Stoughton’s podcast episode titled ‘People Have Asked “Where is AI in the Fight against Covid”? Cognizant has an Answer.’ that was originally posted on www.thepulseofai.com.
Adopting a digital transformation strategy across all aspects of business is not easy, however, some enterprises thrive at it and successfully complete their journey to AI and data transformation.
In this podcast episode, Jason Stoughton, a veteran technologist, AI enthusiast, author and entrepreneur, speaks with Saket Malhotra of Takeda and Bret Greenstein of Cognizant, on the importance of data strategy, establishing KPIs and Metrics, and more importantly what change management plays in successful digital transformation efforts. To learn more, visit cognizant.com/ai.
The content of this episode is a reproduction of Jason Stoughton’s podcast episode titled ‘Deep Dive Into Best Practices of a Data and AI Centered Enterprise’ that was originally posted on www.thepulseofai.com.
During this global crisis, helping enterprises that are struggling to successfully transform their organization digitally, is the need of the hour. Through data strategy, AI, change management and design thinking, organizations can understand and improve the customer journey and much more.
In this podcast episode, Jason Stoughton, a veteran technologist, AI enthusiast, author and entrepreneur, speaks with Bret Greenstein of Cognizant and Inder Kochar of Novartis Oncology about the challenges, opportunities and best practices around centering an enterprise around data and AI. To learn more, visit cognizant.com/ai.
The content of this episode is a reproduction of Jason Stoughton’s podcast episode titled ‘Successful AI Journeys Depend on Best Practices’ that was originally posted on www.thepulseofai.com.
AI is expected to trigger innovation across the entire gamut of a life sciences ecosystem. From quicker and efficient drug discovery, to improved manufacturing and new business models that will revolutionize the way patients interact with healthcare, AI will lead to cost reduction and improve health outcomes.
In this podcast episode, Jason Stoughton, a veteran technologist, AI enthusiast, author and entrepreneur, speaks with Babak Hodjat, VP of Evolutionary AI at Cognizant, and Naveen Sharma, Head of AI and Analytics – Life Sciences at Cognizant, on major shifts taking place in the pharma and healthcare areas amidst COVID-19 and promises of Evolutionary AI. To learn more, visit cognizant.com/ai.
The content of this episode is a reproduction of Jason Stoughton’s podcast episode titled ‘AI is Changing Healthcare and Pharma Fast’ that was originally posted on www.thepulseofai.com.
As COVID-19 rages on, there is an accelerated digital transformation efforts by banks to rethink how to interact with customers and find better models to evaluate and deal with risks. Data and AI are fueling this metamorphosis in exciting and innovative ways. In this episode, Jason Stoughton, a veteran technologist, AI enthusiast, author and entrepreneur, talks to Babak Hodjat, VP of Evolutionary AI at Cognizant, and his associate Maria Nazareth who is Head of AI and Analytics for the Banking and Financial Services Industry, on finding solutions using Evolutionary AI that work. To learn more, visit cognizant.com/ai.
The content of this episode is a reproduction of Jason Stoughton’s podcast episode titled ‘The Covid Crisis is Forcing Banks to Embrace a Digital Future’ that was originally posted on www.thepulseofai.com.
With an almost 300k global workforce, Cognizant is dealing with the COVID-19 crisis by virtually changing the way it operates overnight. A must listen for every business leader set out to transform their enterprise to deal with the disruption caused by COVID-19.
In this podcast episode, Jason Stoughton, a veteran technologist, AI enthusiast, author and entrepreneur, talks to Seth Bartlett, Global Chief Operating Officer of Cognizant’s Digital Business, and Bret Greenstein, SVP and Global Head of the AI & Analytics Practice, about how Cognizant immediately responded to the crisis and over the following weeks changed the way the entire company operated. To learn more, visit cognizant.com/ai.
The content of this episode is a reproduction of Jason Stoughton’s podcast episode titled ‘Cognizant’s COVID-19 Response? Rapid Internal Transformation’ that was originally posted on www.thepulseofai.com.
As organizations are caught in the midst of Covid-19 across geographies, it is time to reflect on how the pandemic is impacting companies, their ongoing digital transformation efforts, and successful opportunities for innovation, while others are forced to play catch-up.
In this podcast episode, Jason Stoughton, a veteran technologist, AI enthusiast, author and entrepreneur, talks to Marco Iansiti, David Sarnoff professor of Business Administration and co-director of the Laboratory for Information Science at Harvard and of the Digital Initiative at Harvard Business School, and Bret Greenstein, Senior Vice President and Global Head of the AI & Analytics Practice at Cognizant. To learn more, visit cognizant.com/ai.
The content of this episode is a reproduction of Jason Stoughton’s podcast episode titled ‘Digital Transformation: Covid-19 Changes Everything’ that was originally posted on www.thepulseofai.com.
As we move through a digital transformation revolution, there is a heightened need to make AI both understandable and actionable to unleash the power of data and AI in the enterprise. In this podcast, Jason Stoughton, a veteran technologist, AI enthusiast, author and entrepreneur, talks to Cognizant executives, Bret Greenstein who is the SVP and Global Head of the AI and Analytics Practice at Cognizant and Babak Hodjat who is the VP of Evolutionary AI at Cognizant. Jason asks Bret and Babak about their AI journey, how Cognizant is focused on AI delivery, and more. To learn more, visit cognizant.com/ai.
The content of this episode is a reproduction of Jason Stoughton’s podcast titled ‘Unleashing the Power of Data and AI in the Enterprise’ that was originally posted on www.thepulseofai.com.
The future of work happening TODAY in Santa Fe, New Mexico at Meow Wolf. Never heard of it? Installed inside an old bowling alley (donated by George RR Martin of Game of Thrones fame), it’s a mind-blowing immersive experience that’s hard to describe. Disneyland it ain’t, but in its own way, light-years ahead in creativity (see our latest video, or the “origin story” of Meow Wolf on Amazon).
Join Rob Brown from the Cognizant Center for the Future of Work as he and Meow Wolf’s XR Producer Kara Kittell engage in a fascinating discussion about the real reality of the role of Augmented Reality Journey Builder on the Experience Economy’s cutting edge.
Matt Simpson, Head of Consumer Goods at Cognizant, talks about the importance of content and storytelling at a time when consumers hold all the cards. A shopper in a store aisle can compare against online prices, read product reviews, and understand the provenance of goods and the background of the seller. The battle for attention goes even further. In a world of infinite touchpoints, as Pepsico’s CMO has said, brands are effectively competing against the latest Beyoncé song. Therefore, firms need to develop content that aligns with what they do, and their audience’s dreams and goals.
Matt O’Kane, Vice President and EMEA Head of AI & Analytics at Cognizant, discusses how companies can mimic the successes of digital and internet giants such as Google, Facebook and Uber, using AI and analytics. In this episode, as Matt says, Google is becoming a Machine Learning-first company, layering AI and ML into every area. But to succeed in optimizing for AI, firms must recognize that it needs a different set of criteria to prepare and curate data. By making AI a “first-class citizen” for data and creating a feature store to develop AI models, firms can accelerate and enter a new era where they can re-engineer their businesses by reimagining processes and rethinking challenges.
In this podcast episode, Emma Aiken-Klar, SVP Human Insights at Idea Couture, a Cognizant company, speaks with Marc Fonteijn from Service Design Show, on her experience of moving away from service design projects and embarking on a new type of engagement process. This installment is a reproduction of Marc Fonteijn’s podcast episode titled ‘Moving away from service design projects’ from Service Design Show.
Career fluidity is now a stable of the modern working world. Many of us entering the workforce will not have similar roles in years to come to what we do today. But herein lies the issue, how are organizations equipping this future workforce for ever changing roles? Not very well is the answer, as among US learners who have needed to upskill for their jobs in the last two years, 42% said they found information online and taught themselves. How do we make sure employees have meaningful and relevant upskilling and professional development opportunities? And how can looking at on the job learning through a prism of future jobs help start this journey today? For the 15th episode in our CFoW podcast series we’ll be looking at how to build the future of talent with Bruce Bergwall and Cognizant’s Rob Brown.
Cognizant is helping clients to adopt a digital first strategy with zero-based operations by combining digitization, machine learning and AI to automate end-to-end operational processes and deliver transformational efficiency gains. In the first of this series, Mike Cook from the Cognizant Center for the Future of Work, Sean Heshmat, and Elisabeth Olafsdottir discuss exactly what zero-based operations are in AI.
Just like our phones, watches and thermostats, so too our cities are becoming smart. These smart cities will utilize IoT, data analytics, quantum computing and artificial intelligence to drive new waves of convenience, safety, efficiency, sustainability and economic growth. Around the world these cities will become the nucleus of industry 4.0. CEO of ESI Thoughtlab, Lou Celi and Cognizant’s Rob Brown take a look at the future of smart cities, how they will be defined and what will make them a reality.
Though the future of work will always be in the future, the future of your work has never been closer. For nearly 10 years, Cognizant’s Center for the Future of Work has cataloged and commented on these developments, as well as other extraordinary workplace dynamics. In this second part of the podcast series on the ever-morphing dynamics of work, we bring you insights into the powerful technological, business and societal trends that remaking work today and in tomorrow.
Though the future of work will always be in the future, the future of your work has never been closer. For nearly 10 years, Cognizant’s Center for the Future of Work has cataloged and commented on these developments, as well as other extraordinary workplace dynamics. In this two-part podcast series on the ever-morphing dynamics of work, we bring you insights into the powerful technological, business and societal trends that remaking work today and in tomorrow.
Artificial Intelligence is an inescapable reality that businesses and individuals must come to terms with. It is becoming a pervasive force, simultaneously promising productivity gains and operational challenges for us all. AI can help ensure that businesses stay ahead of market changes, anticipate customer desires, and forecast faster and more accurately than competitors. However, if businesses are not technologically grounded, getting started with AI can be a frightening endeavor.
The content of this episode is a reproduction of Daniel Faggella’s Apple Podcast episode titled ‘How to Think About and Lead AI Projects in Business - With Bret Greenstein of Cognizant.’ This podcast track was originally posted on https://emerj.com and can be accessed by following the link: https://player.fm/series/artificial-intelligence-in-industry-with-daniel-faggella/how-to-think-about-and-lead-ai-projects-in-business-with-bret-greenstein-of-cognizant.
Data modernization is the fastest way to achieve an AI-driven foundation with a proven method and platform, to source all data that matters to the business and deliver enterprise-wide intelligence. This episode reveals ways established organizations can rethink how they can modernize data. Our conversation is moderated by former Computerworld Editor, Paul Gillin, with expert insights provided by Lead MIT researcher, Barbara Wixom, Anurag Sehgal, who heads Data Analytics and Machine Learning/AI at Credit Suisse, and Alex Rosenthal, Head of Enterprise Data & Insights at Guardian Life.
The future of our modern society currently swings in the balance. With rising carbon emissions and diminishing global forests we are currently facing a new reality as global temperatures continue to increase. Through this shift, oceans around the world will begin to rise and seaside cities such as Osaka, Shanghai and Rio De Janeiro will be vulnerable to flooding. In our recent 21 More Jobs of the Future report, the Center for the Future of Work proposed the idea of Tidewater Architect, a professional that will help mitigate cities such as these against rising sea levels.
For this the 13th episode in our CFoW podcast series we’ll be looking at another example of our now 42 jobs of the future coming to life, or as we call it “Spotted in the Wild”. To discuss this today we have Marta Kephart and Cognizant’s Rob Brown.
Digital technologies are fundamentally changing the way we live, socialize and work. Blockchain, artificial intelligence, machine learning and connected devices are supercharging industry at an astonishing rate. Ultimately, our future of work is shaping up to be vastly different to the work we’ve done in the past. And in the Center for the Future of Work, these topics are our bread and butter. So for the 12th episode in our CFoW podcast series we’re going to be tackling this topic with Cognizant’s Rob Brown and Guy Nadivi.
Businesses can more effectively pivot to a fully integrated digital infrastructure, and establish a cloud strategy that works for them. Learn how from today's conversation between Bill Martorelli, Principal Analyst, Forrester, Venu Lambu, Vice President of Cognizant Cloud Services and Baiju Panicker, Chief Technology Officer, Comerica Bank.
Businesses can more effectively pivot to a fully integrated digital infrastructure, and establish a cloud strategy that works for them. Learn how from today's conversation between Bill Martorelli, Principal Analyst, Forrester, Venu Lambu, Vice President of Cognizant Cloud Services and Baiju Panicker, Chief Technology Officer, Comerica Bank.
James Jeude, AI leader from Cognizant and Steve Levitt, the much acclaimed economist continue their conversation in part 2 of this AI/economics series. In this episode, they discuss about ways machine intelligence and data analytics can inform business strategy and market leadership.
In part 1 of this 2-part series, James Jeude, Vice President of the AI & Analytics practice and Steve Levitt, the award winning economist, exchange their views on how artificial intelligence is changing economic theory. Do not miss part 2 of this series to learn how the AI/economics interface helps inform business strategy and market leadership.
Just as the role of pilots has shifted from flying a plane to monitoring auto-pilot systems and intervening as and when required, our recent research at Cognizant Center for the Future of Work suggests that the role of L&D professionals will move from being a “controller” of learning systems to a “facilitator” of learning. In today's episode, our expert panel exchange their views on the roles Learning & Development teams and educators play in preparing a workforce for the future of work.
Businesses and educators know they need to prepare people for very different jobs in the future of work, but they’re slow to revamp their education and training models, or collaborate with each other, according to our research. In this podcast, we discuss the findings from Cognizant’s Center for the Future of Work survey of top businesses and higher education institutions globally to gain insight into the changes these entities are making in their training and educational programs, and the challenges they face in preparing tomorrow’s workforce.
Leaders of companies across the globe are struggling to fill vital digital roles within their organizations. This isn’t due to inept hiring practices but rather a severe lack of digital talent within the jobs market. Many companies are therefore looking to reskill their current workforce to help address this talent gap. In this podcast we get to grips with the intricacies of this reskilling.
Digital technologies are fundamentally changing the way we live, socialize and work. Blockchain, artificial intelligence, machine learning and connected devices are supercharging industry at an astonishing rate. On the face of it, our business and personal lives seem to be heading for a state of nirvana. However, behind the scenes at many organizations, leadership is struggling to cope with one major issue. A lack of digital skills. And this skills gap is only increasing, the bureau of labor statistics indicates that over the next decade the US will need as many as 100,000 new IT workers, however only around 60,000 relevantly skilled workers enter the workforce each year. In this podcast we get to grips with what organizations are doing to address this hot topic.
In this second part of the AI podcast series, our experts Poornima Ramaswamy, Dr. Jerry Smith and James Jeude from Cognizant Digital Business’ AI & Analytics Practice share their views on how to bring AI into the business mainstream. They also throw light on aspects of AI that companies must address to prevent their AI efforts from falling short.
A real and responsible Artificial intelligence deployment is about strategy, governance and ethics than technology. In this 2-part episode series, experts from Cognizant’s AI & Analytics practice, Poornima Ramaswamy, Dr. Jerry Smith & James Jeude suggest ways to get these elements right and responsibly embrace machine intelligence.
With every click we make online, our interests, preferences, intent and even location are revealed to those we trust – and those we don’t know. In this conversation moderated by Gary Beach, publisher emeritus of CIO magazine, and a columnist with the Wall Street Journal’s CIO Journal, our panel of experts - Ben Pring and Rob Brown, from Cognizant’s Center for the Future of Work, and Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Internet Law and Computer Science at Harvard University lay out what privacy means in the age of the algorithm, why it is not dead and highlight how the data privacy fight is playing out across the global internet.
In today's episode, Babak Hodjat, Vice President of evolutionary innovation within Cognizant Digital Business's AI & Analytics practice, discusses AI's ongoing evolution & future with Ojas Rege, Chief Strategy Officer at MobileIron, a mobile enterprise security company. We thank MobileIron and Ojas Rege for their permission to repurpose this podcast. Make sure to listen to a complimentary MobileIron podcast track where Babak lays out lessons of natural language technology at https://www.mobileiron.com/en/resources/rethink-IT-podcast.
At the end of 2017 the Center for the Future of Work published a landmark report titled 21 jobs of the future. Here we laid out in no uncertain terms 21 jobs that are going to emerge over the next 10 years. For the 9th CFoW podcast Rob Brown and myself will be speaking to Marta Michelle Colon, who has experience with individuals who through disaster, have lost everything and see how she sees the role of one of these emerging jobs, Personal Memory Curator, playing out in the next few years.
At the end of 2017 the Center for the Future of Work published a landmark report titled 21 jobs of the future. Here we laid out in no uncertain terms 21 jobs that are going to emerge over the next 10 years. We categorized these jobs into the three C’s: Coaching, caring and connecting. So we predicted these jobs, but when are they going to start emerging and who is going to be pioneer in bringing these future jobs to fruition? Well, we’ve had the pleasure of meeting one such company. For the 8th CFOW podcast, my colleague Rob Brown will be talking to a firm that is introducing the next wave of jobs in the field of caring.
The banking industry in Europe is changing, rapidly! Fintechs and challenger banks, further enabled by PSD2, are changing the competition dynamic for incumbent banks. In some cases these new entrants are disintermediating banks in their very own value chain, specifically in lending. For the 7th CFoW podcast we spoke to one of these disruptors. Alwin Meyer from Swisspeers breaks down the dynamics of P2P lending in Europe.
As the Agile Development Methodology goes mainstream, many organizations are embracing the digital software engineering tenets of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery. Let's listen to Brian Roche, a Cognizant Digital Business VP of Digital Engineering, share his views on CI/CD across multiple dimensions.
To contend with persistent change and challenges, organizations need to embrace more agile ways of working that will not only help them deliver tailored services to a new generation of users, but also unlock the vast potential of emerging digital business opportunities. Alan Alper, Cognizant’s Editorial Director discusses the operational agility imperative with leaders from Cognizant Consulting’s Organizational Change Management and Cognizant Digital Business.
What was once science fiction is fast becoming business reality. Intelligent automation holds vast potential for insurers interested in reinventing their business models and transforming customer experience. Tune into a conversation between Cognizant automation experts and learn how carriers can add more machine intelligence to the core of their businesses processes.
Companies are either investing in or experimenting with blockchain technologies. What is your organization doing to remain digitally relevant? Tune in to today’s episode on blockchain readiness with our panel of experts, to understand how blockchain works and where it fits into your business.
Communication and collaboration is the lifeblood of any relationship and therefore the lifeblood of all business. But the days of meeting at the water cooler are coming to an end. So how does communication adapt to our new desk-less workforce in industry 4.0? For the 6th episode in our CFoW podcast series we’re going to listen in to a discussion between Stacey Epstein, CEO of communications software provider Zink and Rob Brown, AVP Cognizant Center for the Future of Work to discuss this topic.
HR, finance, procurement, supply chain and customer experience operate as separate functions within organizations. But are these silos still relevant in today’s digital era? More specifically, does intelligent automation, with its ability to optimize business processes, offer a digital means to break down these corporate walls and create a more homogeneous organization? And if so, to what end? In this fifth episode of the CFOW podcast series, we’ll explore just that with Phil Fersht, founder and CEO of HfS Research.
By applying artificial intelligence (AI) to business, social and personal situations at meaningful points of action with deep advice and contextual insights, organizations across industries can enhance humanity, solve business challenges and create new opportunities. Find out if your organization is mobilizing around AI the right way, in this last of applied AI podcasts series with Karthik Krishnamurthy, Global Head of Cognizant Digital Business’s Analytics and Information Management Practice.
In this series, Karthik Krishnamurthy, Global head of Cognizant Digital Business’s Analytics and Information Management Practice talks about how companies applying AI for transformation will lead the way, enhance customer relationships, and advance their corporate and social missions. Tune in and learn to navigate the new wave of service robots.
By predicting floods and quickly warning potential victims and first respondents about impending disasters, intelligence systems prove to be quite viable. Learn how from Karthik Krishnamurthy, who leads Cognizant Digital Business’s Analytics and Information Management Practice in the third episode of our Applied AI series.
The idea of empowering a vehicle to act like a human driver may have a long way to go. But, in this second installment of our Artificial Intelligence podcast series, Karthik Krishnamurthy from Cognizant Digital Business discusses a potentially larger and immediate impact of Applied Artificial Intelligence, driver assistance and its benefits.
In this, the first of our Artificial Intelligence podcast series, Karthik Krishnamurthy, Global head of Cognizant Digital Business’s Analytics and Information Management Practice, sheds light on how Applied AI is solving both social and business problems. Everything from how we’re educated, fed, transported, insured, and cared for — to what we buy, where we do business, and who we choose to trust.
The fourth in the Cognizant Center for the Future of Work (CFoW) podcast series, in this episode, our CFoW business leader discusses the future of third-party infrastructure services with Jamie Snowdon, Chief Data Officer and Ollie O’donoghue, Senior Research Analyst at HFS Research. Tune in to learn more about maximizing the strategic value of IT investments and managing the transformative impact of the new machine age better.
In our next installment of Cognizant’s Center for The Future of Work’s podcast series, Mike Smart, Senior Analyst and Operations Officer at NelsonHall, reveals how organizations can and should fight back to protect themselves and their customers in the ongoing cybersecurity war.
Do blockchain technologies, with their design as a shared, distributed, peer-to-peer ledger system, suggest a real innovation in industries like healthcare handle the storage and transfer of sensitive and valuable information? Tune in to today's episode with Fletcher McCraw, Senior Consultant, Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies at Cognizant, to explore the potential impact of block chain technology on healthcare.
By digitizing the processes at the heart of their companies, business leaders can turbo-charge operational efficiency and propel massive revenue growth and cost savings. In this installment, Robert Brown, Associate Vice-President in Cognizant’s Center for the Future of Work provides tactical advice on applying new digital technologies to front-, middle- and back-office work processes to realize new levels of business performance.
Organizations need better solutions quickly – the answer is to rethink infrastructure from being a foundation stone on which business is built, to a driving force that helps organizations move and change at a constantly faster rate. Tune in to figure out the factors that influence the simplicity of next gen IT infrastructure, with Venugopal Lambu, Senior Vice President & Global Business head for Cognizant Infrastructure Services.
The accelerating age of digital is impacting every business, and the banking and financial services industry is not exempt. Digital is driving a business transformation that puts the client front and center and equips all employees, from advisors through back-office operations teams, with the tools and skills to advance that objective. In this episode, Alan Alper, Editorial Director of Cognizant Technology Solutions and Herb Wildhaber, Executive Director at UBS discuss the challenges of navigating digital transformation in the Banking and Financial sector.
Data is now as ubiquitous as air itself in the world of business, and easier and cheaper than ever to gather and analyze. Business insights derived from data are becoming an essential part of corporate survival and success in the digital world. Merging age-old principles of storytelling and the new field of data journalism, organizations can ensure that decision-making is data-based and meaningful by tapping into the human attributes of stakeholders.
The first in the Cognizant Center for the Future of Work (CFoW) podcast series, in this episode our CFoW business leader discusses the importance of “digital customer experience” and how it is key to engage with, delight and monetize customers in the modern world.
This podcast explores blockchain, an emerging digital /infrastructure backbone that promises businesses more secure, trusted, transparent and automated ways of transacting online – without friction.
Over the last few years, automotive electronics and wireless technologies have grown by leaps and bounds. Advancement in these technologies, combined with device convergence and changing lifestyle demands, are enabling the automobile to extend the driving experience beyond traditional vehicle transport. Tune in to this episode with our heads at Cognizant’s Manufacturing & Logistics business unit as they explain how the car is becoming an extension of consumer individuality.
Data is the crude oil of the digital economy. When refined with predictive analytics and modeling techniques, data can power personalized offers that boost customer loyalty, create upsell and cross-sell opportunities, and generate greater share of wallet. Digital is reconfiguring the world, says Prasad Chintamaneni, President, Global Industries and Consulting. Listen on.
The digital era will rely on machines, but winning will require — perhaps more than ever — talent pools that can thrive in an increasingly digitized economy. Navigating this shift will be one of the defining success criteria for leaders. Lend your ears to Euan Davis, who says it is time to get serious about your organization’s most important asset — its people.
Despite the hype, the Internet of Things (IOT) is taking substantive shape in the insurance industry. Initial pilots offer a glimpse of how a tightly interconnected physical and digital world can drive breakthroughs in productivity, organizational efficiency, and entirely new product and service models that radically improve customer experiences. Tune in to what opportunities and challenges this can present to today’s insurers.
As we enter the digital era, most business leaders understand that the "digital customer experience" is the key to engaging with customers and growing revenues. However, according to our recent research, the vast majority of businesses have a long way to go when it comes to getting it right.
The most common real‑world robots make cars, unload ships, assemble products, even vacuum floors. But as we progress into the digital age, robots will be tasked less with physical labor and more with helping humans with knowledge work. Rather than replacing humans, they are augmenting uniquely human capabilities (like empathy and teamwork) to help smart people work smarter. Stay tuned!
Our latest research reveals that by applying digital remedies to precisely targeted process areas, organizations can relieve operational stress and generate improvements, yielding outsized results that ripple across the process value chain. Listen to Robert Brown, Associate Vice-President in Cognizant’s Center for the Future of Work on how to apply the principles of acupuncture for digital healing.
While the term "digital" does not confine to just internet banking, private banks need to gear up for their digital odyssey by fundamentally reshaping their operating models. Let’s listen to how Asian banks are now embracing digital.