Ulrika Mann

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The Work Ahead in insurance: 5 key themes

The Work Ahead in insurance: 5 key themes

Insurers are expecting dramatic changes to their work by 2023 as a result of adopting digital technologies and mindsets, according to our study. Speeding processes, harnessing data and forming new collaborations will be the keys.

The Work Ahead in banking & financial services

The Work Ahead in banking & financial services

Banking and financial services organizations are moving beyond the basics of digital banking and one-size-fits-all services, according to our recent study. Get the six key insights from our research here.

Nordic finalists in Pandemic Response Challenge

Nordic finalists in Pandemic Response Challenge

Can AI-driven models be used to reopen societies while minimizing Covid-19 transmissions? Now, 48 finalists have been selected in the challenge initiated by Cognizant and XPRIZE. Among the finalists are Swedish and Danish representatives.

Forrester: Cognizant is an AI Consultancy Leader

Forrester: Cognizant is an AI Consultancy Leader

Forrester has researched, analyzed, and scored the 13 most significant AI consultancies. The report recognizes Cognizant as a leader in data and AI technologies and services, citing us as the right partner to help create a business running on AI.

How IoT can Solve the Crisis-Driven Challenges of Today

How IoT can Solve the Crisis-Driven Challenges of Today

While the coronavirus lever is a tragic one, it’s a lever nonetheless – one that’s prompting businesses to solve problems that affect people’s everyday lives. Here are some examples of IoT applications within manufacturing, goods delivery and employee safety.

Ensuring a Safe Transition when Outsourcing HR Processes

Ensuring a Safe Transition when Outsourcing HR Processes

How do you ensure a safe transition when outsourcing your HR processes? Cognizant’s expert Anne Maibauer is called on when companies want guidance on how to improve existing HR processes or when starting new solutions and projects.

Enterprise IoT: Forrester Survey and 10 Real-World Cases

Enterprise IoT: Forrester Survey and 10 Real-World Cases

IoT initiatives offer enormous opportunities for companies to adapt and remain resilient in a rapidly evolving operating environment, like the one we are currently experiencing. However, many IoT initiatives are trapped in the innovation basement, while it should really be an enterprise matter. Learn more in this whitepaper.

Work Ahead Survey: How Covid Affects Work and Business

Work Ahead Survey: How Covid Affects Work and Business

Even before the pandemic, work in all its forms was poised to change. Now, the future-forward script for businesses has crystallized: flexible, dataintensive and digitally oriented ways of working will be indispensable. Learn more in a new survey.

Strengthening M&E Companies in Tough Times

Strengthening M&E Companies in Tough Times

How can media and entertainment companies outperform competitors in challenging times? While cost optimization initiatives help drive efficiencies and fund transformation programs, strategic investment in growth areas is the ultimate goal.

Snapshot: How to Build a Resilient Supply Chain

Snapshot: How to Build a Resilient Supply Chain

How do you handle the complexity of a global supply chain while also preparing it for future challenges? Building the resilient supply chain was on the agenda as experts from Nobia, GS1, Jernkontoret, and Trase gathered for Cognizant’s online seminar. Collaboration, transparency, and traceability were highlighted as key ingredients.

Snapshot: Sustainability in the Future Cities and Regions

Snapshot: Sustainability in the Future Cities and Regions

Cities and regions are rapidly becoming playing fields for sustainable development. Explore how Skanska, White Architects and Uppsala municipality work with partnerships, digitalization and new business models to craft the cities of the future.

Unite for Good: Collaboration, Structure and Disturbed Value Chains

Unite for Good: Collaboration, Structure and Disturbed Value Chains

Is the world finally waking up when it comes to climate challenges? As one of the first conferences of its kind, Cognizant’s Tech for Good series has highlighted the role of technology and innovations to help creating more sustainable solutions and societies. These are the major insights from the series final session, as presented by speakers from Vattenfall, Skanska, Axfoundation and Stockholm School of Economics, among others.

The Future of Agriculture is Computerized

The Future of Agriculture is Computerized

Get used to cyber agriculture. In a recent MIT and Cognizant project, information from a basil plant experiment was fed into machine-learning algorithms. The result? Best-tasting basil every, without genetic modification, and the sharing of meaningful agricultural data.

ICA Involves Value Chain to Reach Sustainability Goals

ICA Involves Value Chain to Reach Sustainability Goals

ICA has set a high bar for its extensive sustainability work. As the first Swedish grocery retailer, its climate targets are now approved by the Science Based Targets Initiative. To achieve maximum impact – and business value – the sustainability measures involve both suppliers and customers.

Cognizant Recognized as 2019 Services Partner of the Year

Cognizant Recognized as 2019 Services Partner of the Year

Temenos, the banking software company, recently announced the winners of this year’s Temenos Partner Awards. For the second consecutive year, Cognizant was recognized for its continued role in successfully delivering key projects with Temenos. 

Event: Ericsson, ICA & BillerudKorsnäs on Sustainability

Event: Ericsson, ICA & BillerudKorsnäs on Sustainability

A sustainable business creates profitability and new opportunities, but how do you get there? One of the corner stones in any sustainable business development, and an essential piece of the circular economy, is efficiency, according to author and expert Gunilla Östberg. Welcome to Snapshot on 23rd May to learn more from both experts and enterprises ahead in the journey. 

10 Signs of a Healthy Corporate Culture

10 Signs of a Healthy Corporate Culture

Work cultures that have grown up over decades, can be complex, slow moving and complacent. To energize people for work in the digital age, leaders need to realize that work culture matters when it comes to delivering results. The Center for Future of Work has put together a list of the characteristics of a healthy work culture. 

7 Ways to Strengthen the IT Core

7 Ways to Strengthen the IT Core

Dealing with legacy systems is a classic struggle as an enterprise strives to become digital. The old applications and infrastructure are home to business-critical processes, while not exactly as agile and resilient as needed. What to do then? Learn the seven steps to core modernization. 

Why AI and Data Are Important in the Future Energy System

Why AI and Data Are Important in the Future Energy System

Fortum has a vision about a cleaner world, by reshaping the energy system, improving resource efficiency and providing smart solutions. Data-rich, AI-fueled solutions play an important role in the realization of this vision, according to CDO Per Edoff.

Kvaerner: Digital in Practice At Engineering Firm

Kvaerner: Digital in Practice At Engineering Firm

Constructing an offshore oil platform is one of the most challenging feats of engineering possible. Learn how emerging technologies such as AI, machine learning and the IoT are helping streamline this process from concept and design, all the way through to construction, for Norwegian engineering firm Kvaerner.

AI for Good – It’s All About the Data

AI for Good – It’s All About the Data

Can technologies like AI help societies and businesses solve sustainability challenges? One thing is clear: without data, there will be no intelligent solutions. Data is really the key, something that the speakers at AI for Good Snapshot at Epicenter in Stockholm all agreed on. 

Can Technology Power the Shift to Sustainability?

Can Technology Power the Shift to Sustainability?

The world stands at the brink of an enormous shift, a vital leap towards sustainability, efficiency and increased responsibility. Can technology help us accelerate the necessary adjustment to long-term sustainability? 

Join Cognizant at BeslutsstödsDagen 31 Jan

Join Cognizant at BeslutsstödsDagen 31 Jan

BeslutsstödsDagen, Scandinavia’s leading Data & Analytics and Business Intelligence event, takes place on the 31th of January at Münchenbryggeriet in Stockholm. For the first time, Cognizant sponsors the event, and its analytics specialists Caroline Holmqvist and Anoop Sharma are present to share their expertise around data driven business.   

When AI and Algorithms Move into the Office

When AI and Algorithms Move into the Office

We’ve already seen technology replace many simple tasks across industries, but what happens when more demanding tasks are delegated from people to systems? As AI and algorithms now enter knowledge intense businesses, such as law and audit firms, the traditional structures are challenged. Assistant Professor Frida Pemer explains what expertise that will be needed and how incumbent firms can prepare for a new future.

How to Create an Effective AI Culture

How to Create an Effective AI Culture

Incorporating artificial intelligence into your business systems and processes is a journey unlike any other digital technology implementation. The path to AI is long and winding and requires a fresh look at existing approaches.

Forget Economy of Scale! It’s All about Economy of Scope

Forget Economy of Scale! It’s All about Economy of Scope

What’s the key to Scania’s uninterrupted profitability for over 60 years? According to Martin Sköld, Scania Associate Professor at Stockholm School of Economics, the secret sauce is modularization. The recipe contains standardized modules that can be combined in numerous ways to offer customized products or services, and the concept can be applied in every business.

“Business as unusual” as LEO Pharma opens up its R&D process

“Business as unusual” as LEO Pharma opens up its R&D process

How do you engage with new competence and capacity outside company walls, without risking your own business? Learn how LEO Pharma successfully opened up parts of its research for external collaboration to pave the way for drug innovation at speed. The secret? Trust, respect and engagement, with no strings attached; you simply can’t push a “big brother attitude” on true collaborations.

RPA at a Major Life Sciences Company

RPA at a Major Life Sciences Company

As a life sciences company wanted to automate a highly manual process that was becoming a quality-control risk and a regulatory burden, Cognizant helped them build a robotic process automation (RPA) solution that addresses the immediate issues – and that will now also be leveraged in other parts of the organization.

Image Analytics in Drone Operations for Energy and Utilities

Image Analytics in Drone Operations for Energy and Utilities

Drones are cool for sure, but can the images they provide be used to create tangible business value? Images contain a tremendous amount of information, and it’s when you combine drone operations with AI and analysis, the real magic happens. This is how it can be applied in the energy and utilities sector. 

Do You Know the New Rules for Work?

Do You Know the New Rules for Work?

We’re entering the 4th industrial revolution. One of the key technologies that will shape the state of this revolution is AI, but many people view AI with a huge amount of trepidation. It’s the technology that potentially could make ourselves, our children, and our grandchildren redundant – but will this be the reality?

Manufacturing Meetup: IoT As a Lever for New Business

Manufacturing Meetup: IoT As a Lever for New Business

How can industrial companies transform their operations with IoT? To find out status as well as future opportunities, we gathered Forrester analyst Paul Miller, Microsoft’s Director of Business Development Ola Reppling, and Cognizant’s manufacturing expert Andreas Rosengren for a manufacturing event in Stockholm. One thing is clear: to gain the real benefits, you need to think bigger than just sticking sensors on your machines. ​​​​​

A Five-step Approach for Successfully Navigating AI

A Five-step Approach for Successfully Navigating AI

Incorporating artificial intelligence into your business systems and processes is a journey unlike any other digital technology implementation. We suggest a five-step process for navigating it successfully.

ONS 2018: Drone Operations in Oil & Energy Industry

ONS 2018: Drone Operations in Oil & Energy Industry

Have you signed up for ONS yet? This year, Cognizant will, among other things, introduce you to AI and image analytics in drone operations. Data captured by drones offer tremendous opportunities for oil and energy companies; reduced risk and downtime, increased safety, and a more pro-active approach to identifying errors.

Artificial intelligence can provide real payoffs

Artificial intelligence can provide real payoffs

Artificial intelligence (AI) was a big deal back when I was in engineering school (which wasn’t just yesterday). Through the years, AI’s evolution has produced multiple hype cycles, followed by disillusionment.

With automation, what happens to the humans?

With automation, what happens to the humans?

Automation is clearly a two-edged sword. While applying automation, robotics and artificial intelligence capabilities to business processes can help businesses boost efficiency, quality and profitability, the resulting displacement of human workers can also inflict damage to the very fiber of the organization.

The need for quality at speed

The need for quality at speed

The closer software gets to the customer, the more we need to focus on their experience. That effort is challenging businesses to reinvent themselves by delivering faster, better services. Companies like Uber and Amazon that were ‘born digital’ have turned customer experience into a matter of software quality and speed, but enterprises still need to digitally step up.

How bots and millennials are changing our businesses

How bots and millennials are changing our businesses

The world of bots is in its infancy and yet it’s already exploding. Bots are bringing nuanced intelligence to applications by replicating their human counterparts and millennials who are very eager to test drive them.

Furhat bridges the gap between man and machine

Furhat bridges the gap between man and machine

What if we could interact with technology the way we interact with each other? Social Artificial Intelligence might be the missing link between man and machine. By studying cognitive processes, Preben Wik and his team work to make machines appear more human. Time to say hello to award-winning robot Furhat.

Half man, half machine, all centaur

Half man, half machine, all centaur

A robot is going to steal your job. AI is only a handful of years away from being smarter than you. The bot uprising is coming to enslave or kill us all. Deep learning is creating code that we can’t understand. The great digital divide is coming.

The digital future of banking and finance

The digital future of banking and finance

The digital transformation will have a huge impact on businesses over the next few years. By going digital, banking and financial services (BFS) stand to gain more than the cross-industry average, according to a new study.

Digital will transform healthcare

Digital will transform healthcare

Expectations are high for digital change that will reinvent the healthcare industry. But a recent study shows hard work lies ahead before providers and payers can reap the value of the next generation of healthcare services.  

Big changes ahead for insurance

Big changes ahead for insurance

Digital transformation will reshape the insurance industry over the next few years. While insurers will have to rethink everything from work processes to business models, the positive effects of digitization will be well worth the effort, according to a new study.  

Humans and AI – together towards the future

Humans and AI – together towards the future

Without even thinking about it, we are using Artificial Intelligence technologies daily through smart search functions in our mobiles, personal assistants like Siri, and when using translation tools on our computers. This is just the beginning; new major commercial applications are just around the corner. So, does AI mean that we can sit back and relax? No! It’s the combination of man and machine that will deliver the best result, says AI researcher Fredrik Heintz.

Win must-have book about the digital era

Win must-have book about the digital era

Will a robot take your job away? What will your company look like in ten years? Will it be Ubered? How do you get ahead in a world of AI, algorithms, bots and Big Data? Learn the tricks in a new field guide from the award-winning authors of Code Halos: When Machines Do Everything.

The force of digital will lift manufacturing

The force of digital will lift manufacturing

A new study shows that smart technologies will have a profound impact on the manufacturing industry within the next few years. Digital will improve efficiency, increase revenues and facilitate innovation.

How Blockchain can Revitalize Manufacturing Value Chains

How Blockchain can Revitalize Manufacturing Value Chains

Whom do you trust? When it comes to global supply chains, the response to this question can be especially difficult, time-consuming and costly. Trusted suppliers must be thoughtfully selected, managed, monitored and certified for quality, reliability and consistency.

Why the Slow-money Challenge is financial services’ next digital imperative

Why the Slow-money Challenge is financial services’ next digital imperative

On January 1, 2018, all banks in the EU will lose a key competitive advantage because of the Payment Services Directive(PSD2). From that date on, they will no longer have proprietary access to data in their customers’ online accounts, including their transaction and balance history. Other regulatory frameworks also pave the way for accelerated competition and an increased digital disruption. Consequently, players within banking, finance and insurance, can’t view their customer relationships as confidently as before. A new Cognizant/ReD Associates study sheds light on what direction financial providers should choose.

Banking on AI as the future of the banking industry

Banking on AI as the future of the banking industry

We are on the cusp of Artificial Intelligence (AI) becoming the norm, thanks to the falling cost of computing power, the availability of huge volumes of data, and, of course, improved algorithms. AI is transitioning from something that makes our lives more convenient (from Alexa to Siri, Uber, and Netflix) to a force that will overhaul our work processes in irreversible ways. 

AI isn't all you need: human-centered design makes for good business

AI isn't all you need: human-centered design makes for good business

Behind every good robot lies an even better human. As technology continues to impact even the most fundamental aspects of our daily lives – getting our annual medical checkup, watching TV, communicating with our parents and children, applying for a job – we’re demanding more from the products we love.  No longer are we satisfied with how a product looks and feels; we expect it to enhance our lives in a significant, memorable way.

Klarna: Customer Focus Beyond GDPR Compliance

Klarna: Customer Focus Beyond GDPR Compliance

It’s no longer about meeting privacy laws, but about meeting customer expectations, according to Caroline Olstedt Carlström, Vice President Privacy at Klarna. Thanks to a cross-functional team and a globally anchored approach, Klarna now ensures both security and new business opportunities, adapted to a future where privacy matters and a more distinct customer relationship will be in focus.

The Future of Money: Use digitization to enhance the customer relationship

The Future of Money: Use digitization to enhance the customer relationship

Money matters cause a lot of stress to people, but are financial service providers really addressing their issues? What strategies and innovations are needed when customer relationships move out from the office and into the mobile? Welcome to a turbulent era within banking, an era with great opportunities and where digital can be a way to enhance the human perspective.

Have you plugged into the smart product economy?

Have you plugged into the smart product economy?

If you want to be part of the smart product economy, you need to take a completely new approach to product development; every single node in your value chain needs to be re-thought. We call this “informed manufacturing”. It begins with a human-centered approach to product and experience design, widely known as design thinking, and includes 3 main challenges you must address.

13 actions for digital transformation in retail

13 actions for digital transformation in retail

The behaviors and expectations of today’s consumers are rapidly evolving under the influence of digital and mobile technologies; as a result, retail growth and profits are quickly shifting to digital commerce. These changes require retail industry decision makers to acquire real-time situational awareness, new digital strategies and a digital mindset around business transformation.

Why the insurance industry can’t risk overlooking AI

Why the insurance industry can’t risk overlooking AI

During the past five years, industrial use of artificial intelligence (AI) has risen exponentially across industries. Companies such as IBM, Apple, Toyota, and Fidelity have demonstrated an interest and appetite for deep research and innovation by introducing AI platforms and solutions for customers, partners, and employees. For instance, Toyota’s websites use AI to perform sophisticated, real-time reasoning to ensure feasibility or availability of the exact combination of options chosen by a consumer to design a specific vehicle.

Why IoT analytics are a manufacturer’s most important tool

Why IoT analytics are a manufacturer’s most important tool

The increasing adoption of the Internet of Things (IoT) is presenting manufacturers with tremendous business opportunities. By using readily available computations of vast amounts of data, a manufacturer can leverage analytics to generate real-time insights to understand the needs of end consumers and product performance under a myriad of operating conditions. 

How BaaS will keep banks digitally relevant

How BaaS will keep banks digitally relevant

To contend with insurgent competitors, regulatory mandates and demanding consumer requirements, banks must embrace open APIs. Why? Open APIs enable them to plug-and-play in the digital business ecosystem and reinforce their value proposition amid escalating share-of-wallet challenges.

Here are the critical factors of successful BaaS

Here are the critical factors of successful BaaS

Traditionally, banks have owned end-to-end service delivery by tightly integrating experience, processes and products. However, this approach is under attack from all sides. Consumer-centric, born-digital fintech firms are competing directly for customers by providing superior user experiences, enabled by accessing application services and data across financial services providers. 

Join event on Human-Driven Innovation in Tech

Join event on Human-Driven Innovation in Tech

How did some of the world’s best-known brands reinvent themselves by understanding the customers? How can companies apply more in-depth insights to design and leverage future customer journeys? It’s all about looking beyond what people say to understand what they truly think – and the intersection between humans and tech is where the magic happens.

How to create offerings that really matter to end-customers

How to create offerings that really matter to end-customers

What if you could find your customer’s silent triggers, the ones that aren’t visible through analysis of vast amounts of data? When combining thin data (Big data) and thick data (the human context), you get insights with greater clarity, certainty and actionability – and can create an offering that really matters to your end-customers.

Learn to infuse human insights into your digital solutions

Learn to infuse human insights into your digital solutions

Succeeding in the digital economy means balancing new technologies with a deep understanding of human wants and needs. What if you could step out of your everyday environment to work shoulder to shoulder with experts to blueprint, prototype, and build better digital experiences for the future? The Collaboratory is a dedicated, creative space where this scenario becomes a reality.

Why being digital means being more human

Why being digital means being more human

It’s time to get curious about the motivations behind actual customer behavior. Beyond digitizing products, services and processes, the winners of the next digital economy will have to combine their tech expertise with a deeper understanding of human behavior. 

Innovations? Human insights, hubs, hard work – and structure.

Innovations? Human insights, hubs, hard work – and structure.

Do you think the world accelerates too fast? Think again; the world will never accelerate this slow again, according to Sofie Lindblom, CEO at ideation360. That’s why you need a structured process to build an innovation portfolio that minimizes risk and secures viable business. Just don’t forget about the customer-centricity, and that innovations always should arise from a real human need.

Applied AI: How to Determine Your Opportunities

Applied AI: How to Determine Your Opportunities

According to IDC, worldwide spending on AI is estimated to grow from $8 billion in 2016 to $47 billion by 2020. While AI is hailed as a technology that will impact a number of areas, it’s another story to identify AI opportunities and to start applying AI within your own business. Use our list to get going. 

How Financial Firms can Excel in Digital while Assuring Compliance

How Financial Firms can Excel in Digital while Assuring Compliance

As financial institutions pivot to digital, they require a business-process-centric assurance strategy that connects technology and regulatory compliance — while delivering desired operational benefits. Financial services firms need to address the many nuances of emerging technologies such as blockchain and advanced artificial intelligence (AI).

Always put people before technology

Always put people before technology

Anthropologists, social scientists, and the focus on people’s daily whereabouts, can add new insights based on so called “thick data” – important facts beyond the digital track image.

How to balance creativity with structure

How to balance creativity with structure

In parallel with running the core business, you need to work on exploring new ideas that correspond to what tomorrow’s core business will be. A structured process will take you all the way from idea to commercialization.

Smarter services through human insights

Smarter services through human insights

How can you infuse human behavior insights into new customer solutions? With focus on innovative integration and design that meets the end-consumers’ behavior, digital agency Mirabeau forms smarter solutions.

Automation: The Way to Modernize Your IT Core

Automation: The Way to Modernize Your IT Core

Just as no automaker would run without robotic systems on its factory floor, or no drug company would fill bottles by hand, automation will be increasingly common in core IT operations to enable the business to compete effectively. Many IT functions, from resetting passwords to resource provisioning, involve repeatable steps that can be codified into standard operating procedures and then automated. 

4 Steps to Utilize Cognitive Computing in Insurance

4 Steps to Utilize Cognitive Computing in Insurance

Cognitive computing is emerging from the shadows and rapidly impacting our professional and personal lives. Some insurance companies are already exploring the utility of chatbots and smart advisors to provide the right suggestions to their customers. Learn how to get started. 

Being digital means being more human

Being digital means being more human

What happens when algorithms and analytics are blended with the human abilities? Can technology actually augment the work we perform? What will work even look like in ten years’ time, when about 35% of current jobs in the UK are at risk of computerization? This, and many other things, were discussed during Cognizant Connect in Oslo

How 3 Insurance Companies Benefit from Digitization

How 3 Insurance Companies Benefit from Digitization

Insurance companies face tremendous pressure to reduce costs and invest more on strategic initiatives to increase revenue. Digitization is key for remaining on the frontline – learn how others have met the challenges through disruptive technologies.

AI and Customer Service: Transavia's Booking Chatbot

AI and Customer Service: Transavia's Booking Chatbot

To remain competitive, you need to be where the customers are. Airline company Transavia wanted to find a way to serve customers in a more efficient way, without loosing the human touch. By utlizing AI, Transavia and Mirabeau, a Cognizant Digital Business, built a chatbot that now helps the customers book tickets faster and easier.

Storebrand’s Efficient Asset Liability Modelling Framework

Storebrand’s Efficient Asset Liability Modelling Framework

Norwegian Storebrand’s framework to support its actuaries involves a new software solution together with a specialized Cognizant team in Vilnius. Here, IT skills merge with business knowledge and the team now constitutes the engine that generates data, develops models, and allows Storebrand’s actuaries to focus on qualified tasks like analysis and business improvements instead. So far, this concept has proven very successful – and is now offered to other businesses as well.

Snapshot: How to Create the Ultimate Customer Experience

Snapshot: How to Create the Ultimate Customer Experience

What do singer Adele, cryptocurrency Bitcoin, and Spotify have in common? These immensely successful cultural and business phenomena were officially launched less than ten years ago. How is this linked to customer experiences? In today’s super-charged world, we need to change how we develop compelling, viable customer solutions and services.

5 Ways Technology Will Challenge Conventions

5 Ways Technology Will Challenge Conventions

A watch that once told the time and date can now monitor your heart rate and warn you if timely care is needed. A car that once transported you from A to B is now highly connected and semi-autonomous, with the ability to self-diagnose when issues arise. And with augmented technology, each of our own five senses can soon be significantly heightened. 

Cognizant’s New Advancement in the CX Economy

Cognizant’s New Advancement in the CX Economy

Customer experience (CX) is the true battleground for brands in the digital era. To strengthen Cognizant’s capabilities in CX, it recently acquired Zone, one of the United Kingdom’s leading full-service digital agencies specializing in customer experience,

Blockchain in Europe: Key Insights from New Study

Blockchain in Europe: Key Insights from New Study

Business leaders in Europe are fully aware of the potential introduced by blockchain, according to Cognizant’s recent study where 1,570 business decision makers were surveyed. To fully harness blockchain possibilities, however, they need to break through old mental models of company boundaries and markets, and grasp how blockchain could truly change the game by shifting entrenched views of institutional power.

“We should all wear Batman suits”

“We should all wear Batman suits”

The power of our beliefs of who we are is strongly linked to how we perform, according to Predrag Petrovic, Associate Prof. in Cognitive Neuro Science at Karolinska Institutet. At Cognizant Snapshot Breakfast he shared insights from his research on how the brain processes information on a system level and how it relates to behavior.

Cognizant Named Best BPO Firm of the Year by CEE

Cognizant Named Best BPO Firm of the Year by CEE

Cognizant’s delivery center in Vilnius, Lithuania, has been recognized as the business process outsourcing (BPO) firm of the year in Central and Eastern Europe by CEE Business Media, publisher of CEE Shared Services and Outsourcing Directory.

Join webinars to fast-track your GDPR readiness

Join webinars to fast-track your GDPR readiness

With about three months to deadline, it’s important to focus on HOW to get GDPR done. In a series of three webinars, Cloudera, Informatica and Cognizant cover what GDPR enabling capabilities that are required, how you put a proper solution in place, and why you should look beyond May 25th.
Gartner: Cognizant Leader in CRM and CX Implementation Services

Gartner: Cognizant Leader in CRM and CX Implementation Services

Cognizant is named a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for CRM and Customer Experience Implementation Services. In the report, Cognizant is recognized for its ability to execute and completeness of vision, and the statement is based on an evaluation of 21 vendors that provide customer relationship management (CRM) and customer experience (CX) project-based services, including consulting and solution implementation services worldwide. 
Rethinking Data Privacy and Trust

Rethinking Data Privacy and Trust

Over the past few weeks, there has been a flood of media headlines on Facebook and Cambridge Analytica regarding the misuse of consumer data. But as consumers become more educated about how a company is using their data, they may actually be willing to assume more risk in exchange for value in the form of personalized experiences, discounts, or coupons. 
Electrolux and Volvo Cars: Succeeding with a Digital Initiative

Electrolux and Volvo Cars: Succeeding with a Digital Initiative

How can you make digital fly in a large organization? While there might be different roads to success, a handful of matters seem to be common: go for a multidisciplinary approach, deliver quick yet with quality, try to work around the legacy, and don’t hesitate to reach out externally.

5 Concerns About the State of AI

5 Concerns About the State of AI

AI is helping organizations to create experiences that are more human and contextual. With breakthroughs, however, come anxieties and hurdles. A new study by analyst firm HfS Research raises several red flags about the state of today’s AI market.

RPA in Banking: Here Is Where It’s Most Beneficial

RPA in Banking: Here Is Where It’s Most Beneficial

Robotic process automation (RPA) is helping banks engage customers in real time, increase efficiency and productivity, and tap into the benefits of straight-through processing without a significant overhaul of their underlying systems. These are the areas where RPA is most often applied. 

Cognizant Opens New Delivery Centre in Riga

Cognizant Opens New Delivery Centre in Riga

Cognizant has opened its first location in Latvia’s capital city, Riga. The centre will support clients, among them Swedish Tele2, in transforming business, operating and technology models for the digital era.

Sign Up to Win Must-Read Book about Digital - Competition Closed

Sign Up to Win Must-Read Book about Digital - Competition Closed

What will your industry look like in ten years? Will your company be Ubered? The book What to Do When Machines Do Everything– named as one of the Best Business & Leadership Books of 2017 by Amazon – is a must to thrive in the digital era. Now you can get your own copy.

The Story Behind Care by Volvo, a World-Unique Car Subscription

The Story Behind Care by Volvo, a World-Unique Car Subscription

Owning or not owning a car? A changed purchasing behavior and new demands on flexibility made Volvo Cars look into a new model for having a car: subscription. Another important reason behind the new offering was Volvo’s wish to capitalize on an existing product. With Care by Volvo, car ownership has now become as transparent, easy and hassle free as having a mobile.

Report: Digital Industrial Transformation with IoT

Report: Digital Industrial Transformation with IoT

How can European companies benefit from IoT? Independent analyst firm CXP Group asked 250 senior CXO-level, business and technology decision-makers about the strategies and approaches they are taking in order to embed IoT solutions into the core of their business. This is the conclusion.

Join Cognizant at ONS 2018 in Stavanger

Join Cognizant at ONS 2018 in Stavanger

The global energy meeting place ONS (Offshore Northern Seas) connects international suppliers, operating companies and decision makers. This year, ONS takes place 27–30 August and Cognizant will be present as a sponsor and exhibitor. Join us at one of the world’s most important oil, gas and energy events!

How Insurers Can Get Ready for Blockchain

How Insurers Can Get Ready for Blockchain

Despite concerns and questions, insurers believe blockchain will impact their organization and the industry itself. On the way forward, there are serveral key considerations insurers need to make. Here, we suggest some nesseccary steps to ensure success.