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The Carbon Credit Market: An Opportunity to be Seized for a Sustainable Future
Carbon credits are already a rapidly growing market, and will soon become a crucial component – alongside the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions – in achieving carbon neutrality across all industries.
Environmental impactESGFinanceSustainable technology
Is the Cloud Damaging the Planet?
Recent media coverage, such as BBC’s Panorama program that aired on 6th February, would lead some to conclude that cloud computing stands in opposition to environmental sustainability. The claim is focused on the ‘greedy’ data centers that support consumer applications such as Facebook and TikTok, which seem so essential to modern life. However, there is a strong pro-sustainability argument for the cloud.
Data strategy & BIEnvironmental impactSustainable technology
Building and Using Digital Twins with AWS Cloud
AWS Digital Twins can transform the industrial sector. The data collected from a digital twin delivers actionable insights into the complete lifecycle of processes, providing the tools to optimize workflows, optimize the supply chain, manage product quality, and spot any errors before they happen.
Breakthrough technologiesManufacturingOperational excellence
Destroy to Create: Is This the Answer to Creative Thinking?
Creativity within organizations is vital in promoting the dynamic mindset necessary to enact innovation and change, and create value. NTT DATA’s value co-creation program nurtures creative thinking through four key stages.
CreativityInnovationShaping culture
Sustainability as a Hard KPI: This Is How IT Can Help
New EU legislation means that providing reporting on your organization’s CO2 emissions will soon be mandatory. Finding efficient ways to do this is crucial – and a good place to start is with specialized technology, which can help to calculate carbon impact in just a few clicks.
Corporate governanceEnvironmental impactESGSustainable technology
Digital Transformation in the Consumer Goods Industry
When it comes to consumer goods, standards are exactingly high across the industry, and processes are often complex. Digital transformation across multiple vectors – from logistics to packaging to quality control – can both revolutionize efficiency and ensure that the highest standards are met.
Breakthrough technologiesCXOperational agilityWorking practices
Cloud is the Future of Banking (But Getting There is Not Easy)
As digital native challenger banks rapidly encroach, it has become imperative for retail banks to move to the cloud to compete. There are numerous benefits associated with cloud migration, but they should also be aware of the pitfalls.
BankingBreakthrough technologiesFinanceFinancial servicesOperational agility
What the Future Digitalized Energy System Means for UK Energy Providers
As the UK energy industry collectively works towards the government’s ambitious emission reduction targets, robust digital strategy and unified data principles will be the bedrock for successful cross-sector modernization.
Data strategy & BIEnergy & utilitiesEnvironmental impactESGSustainable technology
How to Turn Customer Experience into a Tailwind for Revenue Growth
With consumers able to choose between increasingly vast ranges of similarly-priced products and services, customer experience has become an important point of differentiation for businesses. If harnessed strategically, it can become a valuable source of revenue growth.
CXProcurementShaping cultureStrategy
A Look at the Future of Supply Chain Finance
Businesses across all industries have been forced to find solutions to a rapidly evolving market environment since the outbreak of coronavirus. For many firms, the economic challenges of Covid-19 have heavily disrupted their supply chains. But supply chain finance has provided a valuable lifeline during this highly turbulent time. Now, many innovations are emerging, offering enormous value for banks, buyers and suppliers.
BankingESGFinanceInnovationSupply chain
The Current State of the Cold Chain
In the wake of the pandemic, the demand for temperature-sensitive products has never been higher – and the need for efficient, well-functioning cold chains has never been more apparent. With global supply chains already under pressure, the cold chain faces unique additional challenges.
Consumer goodsOperational excellenceSupply chainTransport & logistics
The Race is On to Drive Drama Out of Digital
Amid today’s widespread economic turbulence and uncertainty across global markets, businesses are under pressure to build and maintain organizational resilience through digital transformation. But how should they do this without getting swept up in the drama of external disruption?
Data strategy & BIOrganisational designStrategyWorking practices
Guide to the Metaverse: The Future is Already Here
When we think of the metaverse, we should not think of a hypothetical world but of a certain future. Technologies including augmented reality, IoT, cybersecurity and blockchain come together to form this new virtual space, and the opportunities for businesses and consumers alike are plentiful. But rather than trying to replicate the current world, we must be brave and creative in imagining a new one.
ARBlockchainBreakthrough technologiesCXVR
Unconscious Bias is Harming Our Teams and Technology: How Can We Tackle It?
Bias in technology is real, and as we design and build increasingly powerful systems, our obligations to those using the technology increase in step. Two experts share what they’ve learned for building diverse and efficient teams and ethical AI frameworks.
Artificial intelligenceBreakthrough technologiesDiversity, equity & inclusionTeam dynamic
Designing an Ethical Future
Those designing the digital products and services we use every day have a great responsibility. Technology has the power to change the world, by connecting and empowering us all. But designers can’t do this alone – business leaders and decision-makers must act now, embedding ethical practices today, to make sure we’re on the right path.
Breakthrough technologiesCXDesign & UXSocial impact
Gen Z at Work: What Young Professionals Expect From Leaders
As we strive to make sense of the global changes around us and balance our working and personal lives, the expectations of leadership have changed too. As consumers, Gen Zs are particularly known to hold organizations to account, and they’re no different in their expectations for work.
EXHybrid workingPurposeSocial impactTalent management
Mind the Gap: Addressing the Current Shortage of Digital Skills to Meet the Needs of the Future
The demand for digital skills is only accelerating as organizations embrace hybrid working. To meet the demands of the future workforce, training – for everyone, no matter where they are in their careers – is essential to ensure the digital skills gap does not hold your organization back.
Hybrid workingInnovationL&DTalent management
The Future of the Workforce Is Here, Are You Ready?
With so much upheaval to the work environment in just a few years, our expectations of and relationship with work have changed completely. How can organizations prepare for these shifts as employees set new boundaries and seek purpose at work?
Post-Covid workplacePurposeWorking practices
Make life easy for customers, not for ID fraudsters
Strict ID checks become increasingly imperative in our rapidly evolving digital landscape, but sometimes they can be arduous. How can companies protect themselves and their customers from cyber risk while ensuring their processes are convenient, effective and user friendly?
CXData privacySecurity
Protecting Customer Accounts and Information in a World of Digital Connectivity
As our digital abilities become increasingly sophisticated, our cybersecurity measures develop at the same pace that a cybercriminal’s savviness also can. Businesses must continue to take the right measures to protect their futures with the developments of remote access and other digitization efforts.
AutomationCXData privacyFinancial servicesSecurityTrust
Misconceptions Around Zero Trust
There are misconceptions around Zero Trust, as businesses may be fearful of a perceived need to completely rebuild their security architecture, but all it takes is a step-by-step approach. What is the journey to making the security of your business airtight?
Data privacyOperational agilitySecurityTrustWorking practices
Zero Trust – It Begins With Identity Management
Zero trust is a necessary evolution for businesses to be cyber secure in our digital modern landscape. To eliminate cyber risk and threats, businesses can implement a zero trust approach to protect data and systems every step of the way.
Data strategy & BISecurityTrust
Information and Cybersecurity in the UK
The different needs of cybersecurity continue to evolve, in the same way that businesses must adapt and respond to these cybersecurity risks and challenges. Partnerships are just one of the many ways in which businesses can protect themselves and move with the times.
Corporate governanceData privacyRisk managementSecuritySupply chain
NTT DATA’s Zero Trust Journey 2: Architecture (and What We’ve Learned)
The zero trust journey is all about taking measures to assure your business security at every level. While it sounds complex, it is more simple than it seems, and is worth every effort to ensure that access to data is only granted to those who have sufficiently proved their identity at every stage necessary.
Data privacyOperational agilitySecurityTrustWorking practices
Establishing Trust in Data for Businesses
Obtaining data can open up a whole wealth of business opportunities, as long as the data is valid and trustworthy. However, having incorrect, outdated or inaccurately sampled data can be damaging and costly. In such turbulent times, how can we secure data integrity for the best outcomes for businesses?
Artificial intelligenceData privacyData strategy & BITrust
Why it’s not too late to resolve bias in AI
From picking up on our tendencies toward exclusion to offensively grouping characteristics, AI is learning (and scaling) our worst habits. Luckily, awareness and a desire to take action is growing across many organisations. It’s not too late to resolve this problem. So, what do businesses need to know and do to prevent it?
Artificial intelligenceBreakthrough technologiesDiversity, equity & inclusionSocial impact
Overcoming Automation Anxiety
From data privacy to employee job security, there are a number of reasons why businesses might be anxious about automation. NTT DATA looks at how it has helped various health insurance companies overcome their fears and live happily (and profitably) alongside automation.
AutomationHybrid workingWorking practices
How workload automation can be a game-changer
Most companies use workload automation software to automate business processes. However, reality also shows that a patchwork of different solutions quickly reaches its limits if end-to-end control across applications, data and infrastructures cannot be guaranteed.
AutomationBreakthrough technologiesData strategy & BIOperational excellence
How RPA Bots Help Chatbots Get Smarter
Imagine if process automation was a matter of simply typing what you want. Well, this just became a reality. At a recent hackathon, an NTT DATA team demonstrated an innovative approach that integrates RPA bots and chatbots. The result was a tool that freed users from time-consuming, repetitive tasks, allowing them to focus on adding value while using natural conversation capabilities.
AutomationBreakthrough technologiesOperational excellenceTalent management
How to implement an automation strategy that actually works
Leaders want their automation strategy to deliver long-lasting value and an attractive ROI. To achieve this, you need a data-driven strategy and a unified IT landscape, plus the courage to forge into new automation territories.
AutomationOperational excellenceStrategy
Artificial intelligence tells brands where to invest
AI is maturing. One of its newest uses can help advertising match the most relevant content to the viewer, touching gaming, TV. Here’s how.
Artificial intelligenceBrandSports & culture
The Future of Work is More Flexible, Greener and Smarter
Smarter and more sustainable workplaces are essential for all businesses as we tentatively emerge from the restrictions of the pandemic. Technology is pivotal in not only providing a seamless user experience but also in building a greener IT strategy.
Breakthrough technologiesPost-Covid workplaceTeam dynamicWorking practices
The Blue Economy: Combining Technology and Sustainability to Defend the Seas
Technological development is an important vehicle to achieve sustainability, but companies must open up to innovation. Developments in the Blue Economy – protecting our marine environment and sustainably using ocean resources for improved social and economic life – offer inspiring examples of how technology is helping to protect and enhance the most vital element of our planet’s natural resources.
Breakthrough technologiesEnvironmental impactPartnershipsSocial impact
The AIDA Project: Using AI to Help Caregivers Communicate with Autistic Children
Innovation in technology has great potential in helping to provide accessible, tailored learning for every child. Through our AIDA project, we created a unique system that could give caregivers and educators the information they need by bringing together elements from design, AI, IoT and VR.
Artificial intelligenceDiversity, equity & inclusionSocial impactVR
Achieving Sustainable Growth By Attracting Young Talent
Worldwide retention of top talent has been an organisational issue for some time now. The recent ‘turnover tsunami’ headlines show us the problem isn’t getting better. Here’s how NTT DATA Business Solutions Turkey, Middle East and North Africa have managed to retain 97% of new employees in the last five years.
EXPost-Covid workplaceRecruitmentTalent management
Sustainable Public Places and Infrastructure for a Greener Future
One of the UN’s Global Goals is that of Sustainable Cities and Communities, to make these urban areas safe, resilient and inclusive as well as reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions. On the Danish island of Rømø, NTT DATA Business Solutions is employing a versatile data platform to analyse and forecast flows of people, holidaymakers’ buying habits, water and energy consumption, traffic flows, weather information, and data from the web – making Rømø a truly ‘smart island’.
Breakthrough technologiesESGIoTSocial impact
Electric Mobility: Trend or Key to a Truly Green Future?
Today, there is no lack of critical issues that are holding back the take-off of electric mobility. Here are the issues to be solved for a more sustainable tomorrow. Translated from Italian
Energy & utilitiesEnvironmental impactESG
The Media Sector Transformed in Covid Times
Covid has accelerated the trend towards “digitally-oriented” consumers. Companies in the media sector must be ready to seize the opportunities linked to this evolution, investing in key areas including security, data and blockchain. This will be crucial for companies in the media sector to survive in a hyper-competitive and fragmented market.
BlockchainData strategy & BISecurity
The Disruption of the Energy & Utilities Sector: Future Scenarios
With the radical changes affecting both business and technology, the energy sector has to deal with significant upheaval in the coming years, focusing on the key themes of digital transformation, electric mobility and people.
InnovationIoTMachine learning
Leadership in Lockdown
Understanding how best to care for your employees, as we transition into a post-pandemic working environment, stems from a strong company culture. With culture as the foundation, leaders can protect and promote wellbeing, authenticity and effective communication.
Employee wellbeingHybrid workingShaping culture
Accelerating Data Insights to Steer Smoothly Through Crisis
Leaders will do well to remember that crises always present opportunities for improvement and advancement. By embracing agility and using data and analytics to their best advantage, leaders will be in a stronger position to navigate through the near-term challenges that the pandemic has raised.
Data strategy & BIOperational agilityWorking practices
Open Innovation: the virtuous collaboration between companies, universities and startups
In the processes of conceiving and applying technological transformations, partnerships between universities and the business world have proved to be indispensable says Giorgio Scarpelli, Senior VP, Chief Technology & Innovation Officer at NTT Data Italy
InnovationPartnershipsSocial impact
Pandemic response unlocks unprecedented innovation
They say that necessity is the mother of invention, and that has certainly proved to be the case in the NHS pandemic response.
InnovationPublic sectorSocial impact
Five lessons learned from the Covid-19 crisis shaping our approach to citizen service delivery
Crises are usually accompanied by a host of challenges to overcome. Vicki Chauhan, Head of Public Sector at NTT DATA UK, is focusing on opportunities for improvement born out of the recent global pandemic.
InnovationPost-Covid workplaceSocial impactWorking practices
Distant, but close: a new way to experience spaces in the “liquid” office
The experience of the past months has been an opportunity to reflect on the office of the future. Here's how we imagined it. Translated from Italian
Hybrid workingIoTOperational agilityTeam dynamic
The Question on Every Prospective Employee’s Lips: “What’s Your Purpose?”
The dynamic between employee and employer has shifted. People are now more selective about who they work for, placing greater importance on purpose and culture. To attract and retain talent, organisations need to be clear about why they exist, and live those values in everything they do.
EXPurposeRecruitmentTalent management
If They Work For You, You Work For Them
Effective leaders know how to cultivate the environment that is most conducive with experimentation and learning, by having an unwavering focus on putting your people first.
EXShaping cultureTeam dynamic
No More Us and Them
Why leaders need to embrace change at an organisational and cultural level to be able to manage the evolving landscape of business relationships, and how small steps can make all the difference.
Shaping cultureStrategyTeam dynamic