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COVID-19 has accelerated the already healthy pace of digital change across the Americas. This has created a fresh set of challenges for businesses to tackle.
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The pandemic’s impact validated the industry’s initial digital investment priorities; now is the time to fine-tune them—or play catch-up—to align with shifting COVID-influenced trends.
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By exposing the worst elements of our digital have and have-not world, COVID-19 has shone light on how the divide can and should be bridged.
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Against the odds, category-leading retailers got it done during the pandemic. Next up is getting ready for the post-vaccine era.
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COVID-19 has changed the world. The latest research reveals that many companies benefit by rethinking their analytics models and data management processes to keep up with the new reality of doing business.
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Our recent research reveals that organizations are reassessing the pros and cons of captive services. The advantages – technology and process standardization, economies of scale and lower-cost labor – are pitted against mounting geopolitical, business continuity and innovation concerns.
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As we launch our Pandemic Response Challenge with XPRIZE, we’re certain everything we’ve learned about AI will help mitigate the impact of COVID.
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In the year since we published our book "Transforming While Performing," the need for a culture of agility and collaboration has only grown more important.
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As COVID-19 derails most aspects of our professional and personal lives, most digitally-enabled jobs of the future have taken the hardest hit, our latest index reveals.
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As restrictions around COVID-19 ease, employees and customers will look up to businesses for ensuring their safety indoors.
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Businesses can take these five steps to improve employees' sense of belonging, even at a time of remote work and office shutdowns.
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With event-streaming technology, health providers and payers can quickly enable responsive experiences such as virtual care, without legacy complexity.
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In a preview of forthcoming research findings, we offer five takeaways for leaders to reset the workforce and develop a future-forward script for the COVID-19 aftermath.
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Smart offices will turn the workplace left empty by the pandemic into a more effective environment that is safe, secure and attractive to employees.
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To succeed in the post-COVID-19 world, manufacturers must embrace change at myriad levels. Consider this as an opportunity to reevaluate strategies, business models, processes and technology adoption—and we’ve developed a roadmap.
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We explore the top challenges that businesses face as they bring employees, customers and visitors back to facilities—and offer a roadmap for success.
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Working in your pajamas. Bidding farewell completely to hardcopy. Using voice commands for darn near everything. We knew these shifts were coming, but the pandemic changed the timetable.
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A remote manageability system empowers IT to monitor, restore, upgrade and protect devices whether they're powered-up or powered-down.
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COVID-19 has delivered a profound shock worldwide. With close to seven million cases and almost 400,000 deaths at the time of writing, COVID-19 was something few people had heard of at the turn of the year.
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Thrust into large-scale work-from-home programs by COVID-19, businesses are learning that customers demand a high-quality experience no matter what. We explain how to meet customer expectations in a robust, scalable manner.
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Anxiety has become a fact of life in the post-pandemic workplace. Here are a few tools that can help employees work with their stress, not against it.
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As senior managers assess the fallout of the pandemic, top priorities range from accelerating digital initiatives amid cost-cutting pressures, to ensuring health and well-being, according to our recent study.
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It's been 10 weeks since the virus turned our lives upside down. Here are a few musings about the good and the bad of living and working—all from home.
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We need affinity groups now more than ever to help us deal with the curveballs that come our way and unite us with a common purpose.
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During the COVID-19 crisis, it's essential to establish an engaging culture that keeps employees motivated and connected, regardless of their location.
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Here's a device management approach that will boost productivity of remote workers, lower CapEx, eliminate manual work and reduce dependence on IT.
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In a post COVID-19 world, it’s more important than ever for businesses to give employees a sense of belonging whether they’re in an office or not.
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With millions working remotely, digital congestion has replaced physical traffic jams. Here's how we can all take part in freeing up bandwidth.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has had an unexpected consequence: The ability to reveal our vulnerability to the people we work with.
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While much uncertainty surrounds the COVID-19 crisis, it's clear the best way forward is to accelerate digital business change.
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Many organizations suddenly have hundreds or thousands of employees working from home. Apply lessons learned from remote working veterans to keep teams focused and productive.
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Even as physical distance is required, maintaining close ties to customers, partners and employees is critical to sustaining the long-term health of the business.
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Since the coronavirus struck, millions are suddenly having to work from home. Here are a few tips from someone who’s been doing it, happily, for 20 years.
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How well an organization weathers the effects of the COVID-19 outbreak will depend a great deal on how effectively it cares for its employees.
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From offering SMB-specific products and financing options, to joining digital marketplaces, there are many ways for banks to support small businesses.
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COVID-19 could be the catalyst for lasting change throughout the industry—if providers and payers re-imagine their future roles in a world reshaped by the pandemic.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for better elderly care forcing hospitals to quickly adopt technologies that could make elder care more affordable, on-demand and human-centric.
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There are many pragmatic, achievable measures that financial institutions can take to remain relevant and competitive in a post-pandemic world.
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U.S. healthcare providers must transform their revenue cycle management practices to weather the added financial strain of the pandemic and prepare for business in a profoundly reshaped industry.
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The need for virtual teams puts newcomers to Agile in a tough position: Communications and media companies, are still learning the development methodology’s techniques just when they most need its strengths.
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As remote work normalizes, banks need to adopt workforce analytics to assess job performance and identify productivity bottlenecks.
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When COVID-19 forced social distancing, Cognizant Softvision teamed with a leader in college and career readiness to virtualize test taking.
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As the pandemic persists, banks' digital operating models are maturing, turning the quick fix of "work from home" to a more permanent "work from anywhere."
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Telecoms are playing a front-line role in the smart city movement. But to best support post-coronavirus urban needs, such as enabling more real-time healthcare, they must aggressively push beyond their current infrastructure ambitions.
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As current social distancing guidelines prevent most face-to-face clinical trials, move to decentralized clinical trials that can improve care, empower patients and speed access to data.
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With telemetry, organizations can uncover areas ripe for cost-cutting and understand the factors affecting productivity when employees work from home.
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With consumers at home creating sophisticated, imaginative videos, brands and advertisers should be preparing to capitalize with truly immersive campaigns.
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Forget return on investment (ROI). For media and entertainment (M&E) companies, the pandemic has triggered a new set of measures to prioritize project portfolios.
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Empowered healthcare consumers will use the new published prices (with quality information) to comparison shop, defying industry skeptics.
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Healthcare systems, governments and distributors must create a more responsive and resilient healthcare supply chain to contend with future pandemics.
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Dealing with aggressive global pandemics. It’s time to reconsider the current paradigm of drug development, clinical trials and regulatory approvals.
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As the pandemic has revealed, life sciences companies must significantly improve their ability to sense and respond to change. Longer term, they must rethink their reliance on far-flung global manufacturing and just-in-time inventory.
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AI and machine learning are transforming how and where diagnosis takes place, which will help tame COVID-19 and future diseases.
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The COVID-19 crisis has exposed the need to design and test e-commerce experiences that enable all types of users to access needed goods and services.
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All that's missing from a high-tech approach to quelling a future outbreak is the ability to share personal and portable health records.
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How a large grocery retailer in Australia and New Zealand limited sales of essential items while helping to protect the health of shoppers and employees alike.
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By opening ourselves up to health-based monitoring, we're also introducing the long-term dangers of citizen surveillance and losing our grip on privacy.
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Even before COVID-19, Remotopia, work from home was emerging as a place of the future. Leaders need new rules for managing remote workers. Now is the time for your organization to experiment and fine-tune remote working.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed a lack of preparedness across the global supply chain to a variety of business disruptions. Here are three concrete actions your organization should consider to reinforce supply chain resilience in the event of future supply shocks.
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COVID-19 could catalyze a more open, distributed model of care delivery and hasten the emergence of new health disciplines.
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A platform with Waze’s design simplicity and reliance on personalized data sources could help us detect and prevent infectious disease outbreaks.
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The industry needs new tools, technologies and partnerships to collaborate virtually on drug development and clinical trials for COVID-19 treatments.
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Srini Shankar and a panel of experts discuss adapting existing technologies to drug development using real-time, real-world evidence and clinical analysis to accelerate critically needed therapies to reach patients and save lives.
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Digital tools can equip manufacturers with the foresight and resiliency they’ll need to recover from the COVID-19 crisis.
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Here are the common missteps banks should avoid to successfully enable remote work and digital operations, during the pandemic and beyond.
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Due to COVID-19, the retail customer experience is undergoing a complete makeover. Here’s where brands should focus as they wisely revamp their experiences to reflect what consumers value most today and may seek in a post-pandemic world.
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Virtual healthcare, data science, and digital interoperability can help the healthcare ecosystem stay effective in a chaotic pandemic. They can also help life science companies remain strong in the post-COVID commercial, social and regulatory environment.
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An expert panel will discuss how out-of-the-box thinking and technology can be applied to counter future global health emergencies.
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Decisions made by nations and businesses on how food is grown, bred, transported and sold will play a key role in preventing or causing the next pandemic.
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App-first, on-demand, anywhere/anytime healthcare will help stop virus outbreaks from turning into the next pandemic.
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The pandemic is driving consumers toward digital healthcare channels. Healthcare organizations must ensure their current offerings meet this demand while simultaneously building new digital capabilities to serve members and patients long term in a profoundly reshaped industry.
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The COVID-19 pandemic reaffirms why AI is essential to accelerating the time it takes to discover a treatment for all types of viral disease.
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Exercising digital strengths will help insurers maintain high-quality experiences for policyholders during the pandemic while improving business resiliency.
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Financial institutions have a critical role to play in keeping the world running during the COVID-19 outbreak. Here’s how to do it.
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The need for agile drug development is more critical than ever as the world contends with an unprecedented healthcare crisis.
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Here are some of the short- and long-term impacts that will likely result from manufacturers' response to COVID-19 and the best actions to take.
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To fight the spread of COVID-19, U.S. healthcare organizations need to share health data while meeting federal data interoperability requirements.
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To cope with the coronavirus pandemic, consumer goods and retail organizations need a holistic supply chain strategy built on a flexible and robust digital foundation that anticipates disruptions and provides proactive recommendations to keep pace with the fluctuating demand and fulfillment cycle.
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Sensyne acts quickly during the pandemic to provide people with a digital medical symptom tracker to help individuals and families monitor their own health and support members of the community who are most in need.
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Here's what PPP lenders can do during this period of legislative limbo to ensure they can act quickly when more clarity is gained.
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As the hard-hit restaurant industry eyes a future in which the coronavirus remains a threat, forward-looking businesses are using technology to implement changes that are in many cases long overdue.
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New survey shows IoT at scale is a critical path, but many companies struggle to realize value. See how 10 companies are overcoming these challenges and succeeding in the new normal.
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In the post-COVID-19 world, software engineering organizations must respond to a rapidly changing reality. This will require organizations to holistically embrace new technologies, mindsets and cultural changes to emerge stronger.
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Many SAP shops see cloud migration as a steep hill to climb. However, those that have made the move are better equipped to meet today's business challenges.
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Implementing Microsoft’s cloud-based Windows Virtual Desktop solution and an enterprise mobile management platform enabled one retail player to ensure business continuity during the COVID-19 crisis.
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More businesses are moving to the cloud. With these six parameters, enterprises can ensure they orchestrate an effective and accelerated cloud migration.
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A pandemic pivot for a new retail point-of-sale platform Cognizant Softvision’s “Virtual Pods” nimbly adapt to mid-project redirection and deliver a solution for COVID-19 and beyond.
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IT and IT-enabled services organizations play a vital role in assuring business continuity. Now working from home, QA groups must take assertive steps to collaborate and safeguard critical client information.
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By taking a methodical approach, businesses can refine, groom and prioritize their IT backlogs, and ensuring that important endeavors don't get put on hold.
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Evolutionary AI offers a new model for determining the most effective prescriptions for meeting goals, whether to mitigate disease or optimize the business.
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True application modernization goes beyond cloud hosting and microservices architectures. Don't overlook these other essentials.
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Software product engineering’s popular approach, Agile, withstands the constraints of crises.
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Businesses are relying more than ever on customer service center solutions that deliver a consistent and self-enabling customer experience.
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Innovating in a post-pandemic world will pose new challenges—from unpredictable shifts in customer behavior to development teams that work from home by necessity or choice.
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Although APAC and Middle East companies have been slow to embrace AI, the ongoing pandemic creates new business-technology imperatives.
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Cloud migration will make it more convenient and affordable to manage IT infrastructure and calibrate the computing needs of remote employees in real-time.
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Agile analytics is key to adjusting to fast-changing customer realities, now and after the pandemic subsides. Here's what we've learned from our experience.
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While governments work on an economic stimulus, businesses need to offer an “experience stimulus" to reflect new consumer concerns and behaviors.
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Advanced forms of AI are already critical to fighting the pandemic, and they'll be increasingly vital in combatting infectious disease in the future.
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The pandemic has brought tectonic shifts in consumer behavior that demand similar changes in your approach to software. Here are key recommendations and places to start.
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The level—and speed—of international collaboration triggered by COVID-19 has transcended baseline expectations and set a new historical benchmark.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has forever changed many of our behavior patterns, which is enforcing a shift in how we approach software engineering.
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Amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, senior leaders need to recalibrate how they position and manage change throughout the organization so the business can emerge stronger and more in tune with human and market needs both now and once the crisis subsides. Here’s how.
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Here's a look at two companies that have successfully turned to intelligent automation to tackle the unprecedented challenges resulting from COVID-19.
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Forward-looking businesses are offloading data center maintenance and management to the cloud to keep things running during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Investing in intelligent automation will help enterprises meet the business imperatives spurred by the pandemic and prepare for the "new normal."
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Welcome to the Part 2 of the Remotopia podcast series where our experts, discuss a range of subjects around the billowing virtual workplace–from questions to ask when the workplace goes virtual.
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In a contactless world, organizations will turn to augmented and virtual reality to design employee and customer interactions.
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Led by China, the Asia-Pacific region is well positioned when it comes to digital transformation, leveraging a multifaceted approach to “engineering the modern business.” The result: digital advantages enjoyed by digital-natives.
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In the COVID crisis, businesses need 'chunkers' who can see the big picture of a loosely described endeavor and determine the details needed for success.
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The COVID-19 crisis is leaving destruction in its wake, but it’s also redefining the future business terrain. We asked 500 senior executives what to expect going forward.
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When global lockdowns and stay-at-home orders due to COVID-19 forced millions of workers to go virtual, contact centers were not immune.
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Loan forgiveness is here. The question on every bank’s mind is what will it be like?
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Our bold predictions on next-generation careers in the ever-more-important human resources field.
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Without internal disruption, businesses will struggle to realize the full value of initiatives they undertake to stay relevant in these fast-changing times.
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Environmental changes, new lifestyles, diet and a high level of mobility are expected to give rise to a wide array of infectious diseases that could emerge as the number-one threat to civilization. To minimize the loss of lives and societal disruptions, a set of digitally-enabled measures can ensure that we are better prepared for whatever the future brings.
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In a post-pandemic world, workers and customers simply will not enter a building unless they’re safe—and are reassured of it. We offer pragmatic advice on assessing safety needs and introducing new technologies to existing spaces.
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The remote work directives that resulted from the COVID-19 pandemic reveal that virtual work is no longer a utopian ideal. It’s real and here to stay. To assist in the transition, we present recommendations that help everyone succeed in this new normal.
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As the sense of crisis dissipates, remote work will remain the rule rather than the exception for many. Organizations must now apply their COVID-19 learnings so remote employees feel as comfortable and productive working virtually as they would be if they were physically present in the office.
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To take advantage of all that today’s workforce has to offer, organizations must shift away from a career model that never imagined the working population becoming so diverse.
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Smart productivity solutions can help businesses facilitate uninterrupted work and enhance the user experience for remote workers.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has forced a complete re-evaluation of our physical plants. Consumers and workers won’t set foot in facilities they don’t believe to be safe. Fortunately, IoT technology can make it happen.
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At home or in the office, the workplace will never be the same. Here are a few ways organizations can optimize workforce productivity and safety.
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After a strong start to the year, the impact of coronavirus in March on the Cognizant Jobs of the Future Index was immediate, revealing job growth disruption in many employment categories beyond those that pivot around social distancing and virtual work.
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Because of the coronavirus, a more complete picture of what #WFH—aka, Remotopia— looks like is coming into view. Learn how to reap the benefits of a more engaged and agile global workforce.
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Even before COVID-19, Remotopia, work from home was emerging as a place of the future. Leaders need new rules for managing remote workers. Now is the time for your organization to experiment and fine-tune remote working.
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How a large grocery retailer in Australia and New Zealand limited sales of essential items while helping to protect the health of shoppers and employees alike.
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By making use of contactless technologies, businesses and societies can help employees and citizens interact safely, now and after the pandemic.
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Take a four-phased approach to managing the coronavirus chaos and transform the shockwaves into a catalyst for positive change.
SPECIAL REPORT
What will the world look like in 2023? This special report looks at the impacts of the virus.
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Take a deep-dive discussion into the no regret catalytic moves you and your organization can make to keep your people and business healthy today and tomorrow.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has forever changed many of our behavior patterns, which is enforcing a shift in how we approach software engineering.
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