Slowly but surely, SAP’s ECC 6 enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution is being replaced by a new system: S/4HANA. From 2027 on, ECC 6 will not be fully supported...

Amid an economic triple-whammy of new credit demand slowdown, increased delinquencies, and interest rate shock, we’ve entered a “cost takeout” era in banking.

S&OP relies on principles, rules, methodology, and specific measurable outcomes. But an S&OP implementation also calls for creative, incremental thoughts to address challenges.

Digital supply chain collaboration platforms can help water utilities meet their capital delivery commitments.

Successful post-merger integrations are enabled by top-down accountability for business decisions early in the process.

Insurers need to examine the risk of sticking with the status quo as compared to leading industry collaboration.

By changing your focus to operational productivity you could potentially move your operating ratio 10 to 20 points.

For IT outsourcing to succeed, the transition must be treated as both an IT project and a Change Management project.

The HR function must offer real and perceived value to the business to become a strategic partner and a value leader.

Supply chain strategists need to decide which markets and operating models they want to embrace to stay competitive.

Strategic Alignment and Deployment is not an overnight fix, but it’s a sustainable, even transformative one.

Streamlining and updating your reporting capability with the appropriate delivery model will enable you to significantly enhance your organization’s profitability, competitiveness, and ability to respond to the wider environment that it operates in.

By selecting the best tools to create a quality environment, any organization can and should become world class.

By breaking your mammoth supply chain into more manageable chunks, your business will gain the agility and control it needs in a competitive marketplace—and you can focus more on getting products to market rather than putting out fires.

This document summarizes Wipro Consulting Services’ point of view on a Target Operating Model and implementation roadmap for large global organizations to create a robust solution for their S2P Invoice Processing and Document Management system.

Businesses today need to consider a market scan that includes cross-industry innovation to succeed.

The three levers of growth are gleaned from innovative insurance product development, sales, and claims processing

The business that has a steady stream of actionable information is the more agile, cost efficient, and better supply chain partner than the competition. How do you enhance the bottom line? In the context of supply chain, you do it with Demand Sensing.

A resilient, flexible, scenario-based supply chain provides a competitive edge during times of major disruptions.

For the business to view HR as a strategic partner, you must provide critical workforce analytics and insights.

Wipro’s TOM for intercompany reconciliation and settlement is an accurate, cost effective and manageable solution.

One of the reasons Origin embraced Wipro was their focus on continuous improvement, innovation, and organizational cultural fit.

Evolving your existing Shared Services into Global Business Services transforms cost cutting into an effective lever. .

By adopting the five sustainable levers of Agile Change, any organization can enjoy a greater return on investment.

By 2030, Blockchain, smartphones and IoT networks could create a palm oil trading industry with near-perfect sustainability.

The key to producing useful business architecture is to standardize and reduce complexity.

Experimentation with disruptive blockchain solutions is the way forward for wealth management firms.

Develop an automation-centric strategy, bridge generational divides, & actively mitigate cyber-risks.

A smart EDH will lead to reduced time to market, product diversity and higher profits.

Change Management: A Consulting Add-On? Think Again.

AI and ML offer enormous potential for retailers to deliver compelling customer experience and drive cost efficiency.

As new technologies continue to spur double-digit ecommerce growth, online merchants must innovate their last-mile delivery experiences.

The outsourcing of manufacturing that made Southeast Asia the world’s factory for decades is evolving to nearshore manufacturing as factories crop up across Mexico in response to demand from U.S. manufacturers.

Five opportunities to win in the age of trade restrictions

Banking Thought Leadership

The rapid transformation of the retail and consumer goods (CG) industries over the last five years will accelerate over the next decade

This article (part 1) discusses the challenges inherent to acquisitions and the solutions offered by the Agile approach

This article (part 2) discusses the challenges inherent to acquisitions and the solutions offered by the Agile approach

A consolidated strategy is required to improve manufacturing process efficiency by harmonizing processes for electronic batch records (EBR) and electronic device history records (eDHR) for pharmaceutical and medical devices plants.

Challenges in a post COVID-19 world

A Point of View

SCM market is poised for a double-digit growth for the next 6 to 8 years and Wipro has to capture this momentum to increase its share. With a combination of tech platforms, new age solutions, automation and consumer insights driven approach, this space will go through a rapid transformation.

Aviation Moving Toward Singularity

A World Economic Forum White Paper

An effective hyper-personalization strategy based on personas will create a connected digital experience for users, leading to greater user satisfaction, higher productivity, and digital transformation.

Program and Portfolio Management Post COVID-19

CIOs are increasingly questioned about the ROI from technology investments, but shortcomings don’t always lie with the technology itself.

Many companies have been unsuccessful in identifying the right data strategy that can give them sustained competitive advantage.

Implementing or upgrading an SAP-ERP can provide an advanced, flexible IT landscape that helps organizations adapt quickly to dynamic market requirements and to improve efficiency, digitalization, and cost optimization in the long run. But SAP implementations are rarely just technical implementations. They can fail when companies neglect the need for organization change and the transformation journey. Many enterprises underestimate the effort required to change their internal behaviors and ways of working.

In today’s world, virtually every sector and every enterprise function has been disrupted by digital transformation – including information technology (IT), the nervous system of any business. Facilitating digital transformation is central to the IT function; IT, after all, facilitates the adoption of technologies and solutions that make digital work. But how enterprises manage the “business of IT” also needs radical transformation to thrive in the digital era. In order to provide quality services and meet enterprise expectations, many IT processes and operating models require transformation, including IT Service Management (ITSM).

In the current climate, enterprises must move fast to stay ahead of the competition....

People are our most important asset.” It’s the kind of verbiage that appears on mission statements and value propositions in corporations

Cloud can help, and ERP systems are finally starting to embrace cloud computing....

Whether it’s a new application or an enterprise-level digital transformation, progress cannot happen until people embrace and adopt the change. One of the best approaches to helping people embrace the new is through change agents and change agent networks.

The cloud world is changing fast, and everyone wants to be on board. There are two distinct groups of cloud adopters - cloud immigrants who, for long, have been running IT in the traditional form

Ten years ago organizations relied on centralized change centers of excellence, deploying standardized change methodologies in a traditional mechanistic approach. Typically, these frameworks were waterfall in nature, running in parallel with the overall program and designed to smooth the integration of program outcomes into business as usual.

Cloud adoption in the telecommunications industry has accelerated due to the growing need for business agility, cost reduction and the opportunity to reposition for new services and markets.

The energy industry today is at a crossroads, and depending on one’s point of view, one might see either boundless opportunity or tumult and disruption....

To maximize the ROI of emerging technologies, organizations must carefully balance excitement about potential benefits with realism about current capabilities.

It is safe to say that programmes rarely fail due to a lack of technical know-how — there is an abundance of technical ability out there. Rather, the difference between success and failure usually comes down to people’s ability to work together and integrate into a cohesive team.

As they navigate the shift toward renewable energy sources, leaders of today’s energy companies are simultaneously dealing with many other complications.

The Interview by Designit brings you perspectives, insights, and advice from business and industry leaders who are designing the future.

Is the future of work hybrid, remote, in-person or freelance co-working? Probably all of the above, but AI will fundamentally transform work itself.

Is the future of work hybrid, remote, in-person or freelance co-working? Probably all of the above, but AI will fundamentally transform work itself.

Rather than figuring out how to deploy GenAI everywhere, enterprises need to first deploy GenAI somewhere.

To make progress in areas like the energy transition, decarbonization, and scaling/integrating renewables, energy companies will need to focus less on identifying innovations and more on deploying and scaling them.

Retailers have been gradually settling into the post-pandemic paradigm. The in-store experience remains important, but retailers also know that recent upticks in eCommerce and newer delivery models are largely permanent.

According to Airports Council International (ACI) World, 2024 will be a milestone for global passenger traffic, with global air travel reaching 9.4 billion passengers.

The engineering, construction, and operations (EC&O) industry is poised to undergo significant changes in 2024.

Across the healthcare landscape, data collection and advanced analytics will improve everything from back-office efficiency to patient experiences and concrete patient health outcomes.

The utilities industry is experiencing a fundamental shift driven by aging infrastructure, significant technology advancements, and growing demand for alternative energy sources.

At the same time, cost takeout remains a core priority for the telecom sector, with key themes around consolidation, productivity prioritization, and automation.

Digital transformation and the acceleration of artificial intelligence continue to disrupt all industries, and these forces have heavily impacted the banking sector in recent years.

American banks are heading into 2024 with guarded optimism. If inflation continues to moderate and employment remains stable, the economy may avoid the recessionary impacts and credit market disruptions that the industry anticipated last year.

Imagine that you are leading a change workstream at a large bank.

New GenAI-led strategies are impacting learning and development initiatives across numerous industries.

For supply chain organizations, the rules of the road are changing. A surge of data and digitization is transforming supply chain management.

The rapid growth of renewable energy projects worldwide has created a pressing need for effective refinancing strategies.

GenAI is enhancing the role of communication leads in transformation programs. When intelligently integrated into change efforts, GenAI is not an intrusion but a catalyst that can supercharge the change process.