Most companies fail to recognize the importance of building a solid data foundation to understand their impact on environmental issues and manage them effectively. Companies must augment their sustainability strategy with a data strategy to reduce overhead costs. In this episode, we explore how brands can leverage technology to operationalize sustainability goals and develop a sustainable business model. Delve deeper into the world of sustainable business practices with Dana Vannen Anderson, Industry Plus North America Advisory Services Practice Lead at Cognizant, and learn how companies can make a positive impact on the environment while achieving long-term success.

The often-missing link in the sustainability equation

LOHAS consumers — short for Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability — represent more than one-third of American adults. A remarkably savvy segment, the LOHAS customer is both well-informed and hard to impress – which means that brands need to be ambitious in their goals and authentic in their approach to build lasting relationships with this group. So how do brands win the hearts and minds of the LOHAS shopper? There are three areas of critical importance — circularity, carbon neutrality and transparency. In this episode, we will deep dive into transparency with Anca Novacovici Lunn, Senior Principal Sustainability Advisor in Cognizant’s North America Sustainability Services Advisory. Listen to hear why brands are struggling to meet their goals in the space, how they can overcome these obstacles, and why tackling the challenge is essential in meeting the demands of today’s changing consumer.

The transparency imperative: meeting the demands of the LOHAS consumer (Part 2 of 2)

The transparency imperative: meeting the demands of the LOHAS consumer (Part 1 of 2)

Why should organizations be blending customer and employee experience and what does that mean for brands in today’s world? Hear John McVay, Head of Digital Experience Solutions for the Americas at Cognizant discuss how this methodology can ensure both topline growth and employee retention. It’s clear why a synchronized experience between customers and employees is imperative for customer-facing workers, but it’s also invaluable for employees whose roles contribute indirectly to the customer experience itself.

Why the customer and employee experience should be treated as one (Part 2 of 2)

Why the customer and employee experience should be treated as one (Part 1 of 2)

The pandemic has rapidly accelerated consumer adoption of online purchasing. To meet customer expectations, brands need PIM solutions to support the entire process of collecting, validating, enriching, and syndicating product information. What does product information management (PIM) mean for your brand and your success in the marketplace? Anup Prasad, VP and Market Leader of Retail and Consumer Goods, Cognizant and Stephanie Wiles, Senior Director of Consulting in Retail and Consumer Goods, Cognizant, discuss and dive into why PIM is key to staying relevant with consumers, how it is evolving, and why your brand could lose market share if it doesn’t embrace PIM today.

Why product information management (PIM) is key to your e-commerce success

For media streaming service providers, search plays a crucial role in connecting relevant content to customers. It needs to be constantly tested basis user insights and performance. The focus should not just be on what consumers want via search but what more they can find from the media company’s existing listings.Tune into our final installment of our three-part podcast series featuring Chris Kuthan, Global Head Of Business Development for direct to consumer at Amazon Web Services, and Simon Adams, Chief Product Officer at Gracenote, a Nielsen company and Tiran Dagan, Chief Digital Officer and Head Of Industry Solutions for Communications, Media and Technology at Cognizant, who discuss the importance of enhancing search’s role and improved content browsing capabilities.

For media streaming service providers, search plays a crucial role in connecting relevant content to customers. It needs to be constantly tested basis user insights and performance. The focus should not just be on what consumers want via search but what more they can find from the media company’s existing listings. Tune into our final installment of our three-part podcast series featuring Chris Kuthan, Global Head Of Business Development for direct to consumer at Amazon Web Services, and Simon Adams, Chief Product Officer at Gracenote, a Nielsen company and Tiran Dagan, Chief Digital Officer and Head Of Industry Solutions for Communications, Media and Technology at Cognizant, who discuss the importance of enhancing search’s role and improved content browsing capabilities.

Why Search is Key for Streaming Businesses

One of the key challenges for media companies offering direct-to-consumer streaming services is delivering content that customers want or would prefer to watch. Moreover, cross-content search still remains a challenge and just redesigning the user interface will not suffice. Listen on as we bring you a three-part podcast series featuring Chris Kuthan, Global Head Of Business Development for direct to consumer at Amazon Web Services, and Simon Adams, Chief Product Officer at Gracenote, a Nielsen company and Tiran Dagan, Chief Digital Officer and Head Of Industry Solutions for Communications, Media and Technology at Cognizant, who emphasize on the need of bettering content delivery.

One of the key challenges for media companies offering direct-to-consumer streaming services is delivering content that customers want or would prefer to watch. Moreover, cross-content search still remains a challenge and just redesigning the user interface will not suffice. Listen on as we bring you a three-part podcast series featuring Chris Kuthan, Global Head Of Business Development for direct to consumer at Amazon Web Services, and Simon Adams, Chief Product Officer at Gracenote, a Nielsen company and Tiran Dagan, Chief Digital Officer and Head Of Industry Solutions for Communications, Media and Technology at Cognizant, who emphasize on the need of bettering content delivery.

Delivering Impactful Content in a Direct-to-Consumer Streaming Business

Globally, media companies providing direct-to-consumer streaming services operate in an extremely competitive market led by AI, data and engineering. Every advantage counts where sales is tightly intertwined to technology-driven subscriber experience.Listen on as we bring you a three-part podcast series featuring Chris Kuthan, Global Head Of Business Development for direct to consumer at Amazon Web Services, and Simon Adams, Chief Product Officer at Gracenote, a Nielsen company and Tiran Dagan, Chief Digital Officer and Head Of Industry Solutions for Communications, Media and Technology at Cognizant, who share their take on building a better streaming service using technology and data.

Globally, media companies providing direct-to-consumer streaming services operate in an extremely competitive market led by AI, data and engineering. Every advantage counts where sales is tightly intertwined to technology-driven subscriber experience. Listen on as we bring you a three-part podcast series featuring Chris Kuthan, Global Head Of Business Development for direct to consumer at Amazon Web Services, and Simon Adams, Chief Product Officer at Gracenote, a Nielsen company and Tiran Dagan, Chief Digital Officer and Head Of Industry Solutions for Communications, Media and Technology at Cognizant, who share their take on building a better streaming service using technology and data.

How Media Companies Can Build a Resilient & Profitable Streaming Business

Today, just about every company is sitting on a pile of potentially valuable data. Anil Nagaraj, Head of Data Engineering, Cognizant, and Kevin Miller, VP Global Systems Integrators, Snowflake, look at the growing data marketplace to see how organizations are monetizing that data. Listen now to explore how businesses across all industries—including telecoms, healthcare, and financial services—are benefiting from the data marketplace and data-sharing capabilities. Hear, for example, how some banks are teaming up with retailers to create unique data sets, which can give valuable information on the buying behaviours of customers. And discover how the data marketplace can ensure supply chain visibility in unpredictable times.

How Businesses Gain More Value from the Data Cloud

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Cognizant (Nasdaq-100: CTSH) engineers modern businesses. We help our clients modernize technology, reimagine processes and transform experiences so they can stay ahead in our fast-changing world. Together, we’re improving everyday life. See how at <a href="http://www.cognizant.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.cognizant.com</a> or @cognizant.

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Digital technologies are fundamentally changing the way we live, socialize and work. Blockchain, artificial intelligence, machine learning and connected devices are supercharging industry at an astonishing rate. Ultimately, our future of work is shaping up to be vastly different to the work we’ve done in the past. And in the Center for the Future of Work, these topics are our bread and butter. So for the 12th episode in our CFoW podcast series we’re going to be tackling this topic with Cognizant’s Rob Brown and Guy Nadivi.

Digital technologies are fundamentally changing the way we live, socialize and work. Blockchain, artificial intelligence, machine learning and connected devices are supercharging industry at an astonishing rate. Ultimately, our future of work is shaping up to be vastly different to the work we’ve done in the past. And in the Center for the Future of Work, these topics are our bread and butter. So for the 12th episode in our CFoW podcast series we’re going to be tackling this topic with Cognizant’s Rob Brown and Guy Nadivi.

Exploring the Future of Work and Automation

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Artificial Intelligence is an inescapable reality that businesses and individuals must come to terms with. It is becoming a pervasive force, simultaneously promising productivity gains and operational challenges for us all. AI can help ensure that businesses stay ahead of market changes, anticipate customer desires, and forecast faster and more accurately than competitors. However, if businesses are not technologically grounded, getting started with AI can be a frightening endeavor.The content of this episode is a reproduction of Daniel Faggella’s Apple Podcast episode titled ‘How to Think About and Lead AI Projects in Business - With Bret Greenstein of Cognizant.’ This podcast track was originally posted on https://emerj.com and can be accessed by following the link: https://player.fm/series/artificial-intelligence-in-industry-with-daniel-faggella/how-to-think-about-and-lead-ai-projects-in-business-with-bret-greenstein-of-cognizant.

Artificial Intelligence is an inescapable reality that businesses and individuals must come to terms with. It is becoming a pervasive force, simultaneously promising productivity gains and operational challenges for us all. AI can help ensure that businesses stay ahead of market changes, anticipate customer desires, and forecast faster and more accurately than competitors. However, if businesses are not technologically grounded, getting started with AI can be a frightening endeavor. The content of this episode is a reproduction of Daniel Faggella’s Apple Podcast episode titled ‘How to Think About and Lead AI Projects in Business - With Bret Greenstein of Cognizant.’ This podcast track was originally posted on <a href="https://emerj.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://emerj.com</a> and can be accessed by following the link: <a href="https://player.fm/series/artificial-intelligence-in-industry-with-daniel-faggella/how-to-think-about-and-lead-ai-projects-in-business-with-bret-greenstein-of-cognizant" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://player.fm/series/artificial-intelligence-in-industry-with-daniel-faggella/how-to-think-about-and-lead-ai-projects-in-business-with-bret-greenstein-of-cognizant</a>.

How to Think About and Lead AI Projects in Business

James Jeude, AI leader from Cognizant and Steve Levitt, the much acclaimed economist continue their conversation in part 2 of this AI/economics series. In this episode, they discuss about ways machine intelligence and data analytics can inform business strategy and market leadership.

How AI Can Help Inform Business Strategy & Market Leadership

In this podcast episode, Emma Aiken-Klar, SVP Human Insights at Idea Couture, a Cognizant company, speaks with Marc Fonteijn from Service Design Show, on her experience of moving away from service design projects and embarking on a new type of engagement process. This installment is a reproduction of Marc Fonteijn’s podcast episode titled ‘Moving away from service design projects’ from Service Design Show.

Rethinking Service Design Projects to Offer Better Value

In today's episode, Babak Hodjat, Vice President of evolutionary innovation within Cognizant Digital Business's AI &amp; Analytics practice, discusses AI's ongoing evolution &amp; future with Ojas Rege, Chief Strategy Officer at MobileIron, a mobile enterprise security company. We thank MobileIron and Ojas Rege for their permission to repurpose this podcast. Make sure to listen to a complimentary MobileIron podcast track where Babak lays out lessons of natural language technology at https://www.mobileiron.com/en/resources/rethink-IT-podcast.

In today's episode, Babak Hodjat, Vice President of evolutionary innovation within Cognizant Digital Business's AI &amp; Analytics practice, discusses AI's ongoing evolution &amp; future with Ojas Rege, Chief Strategy Officer at MobileIron, a mobile enterprise security company. We thank MobileIron and Ojas Rege for their permission to repurpose this podcast. Make sure to listen to a complimentary MobileIron podcast track where Babak lays out lessons of natural language technology at <a href="https://www.mobileiron.com/en/resources/rethink-IT-podcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.mobileiron.com/en/resources/rethink-IT-podcast</a>.

The Missing Link in Artificial Intelligence

Data modernization is the fastest way to achieve an AI-driven foundation with a proven method and platform, to source all data that matters to the business and deliver enterprise-wide intelligence. This episode reveals ways established organizations can rethink how they can modernize data. Our conversation is moderated by former Computerworld Editor, Paul Gillin, with expert insights provided by Lead MIT researcher, Barbara Wixom, Anurag Sehgal, who heads Data Analytics and Machine Learning/AI at Credit Suisse, and Alex Rosenthal, Head of Enterprise Data &amp; Insights at Guardian Life.

Rethinking Data To Unlock True Business Value

Businesses can more effectively pivot to a fully integrated digital infrastructure, and establish a cloud strategy that works for them. Learn how from today's conversation between Bill Martorelli, Principal Analyst, Forrester, Venu Lambu, Vice President of Cognizant Cloud Services and Baiju Panicker, Chief Technology Officer, Comerica Bank.

Powering a Cloud-led Digital Transformation Journey - Part 1

With every click we make online, our interests, preferences, intentand even location are revealed to those we trust – and those we don’t know. In this conversation moderated by Gary Beach, publisher emeritus of CIO magazine, and a columnist with the Wall Street Journal’s CIO Journal, our panel of experts - Ben Pring and Rob Brown, from Cognizant’s Center for the Future of Work, and Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Internet Law and Computer Science at Harvard University lay out what privacy means in the age of the algorithm, why it is not dead and highlight how the data privacy fight is playing out across the global internet.

With every click we make online, our interests, preferences, intent and even location are revealed to those we trust – and those we don’t know. In this conversation moderated by Gary Beach, publisher emeritus of CIO magazine, and a columnist with the Wall Street Journal’s CIO Journal, our panel of experts - Ben Pring and Rob Brown, from Cognizant’s Center for the Future of Work, and Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Internet Law and Computer Science at Harvard University lay out what privacy means in the age of the algorithm, why it is not dead and highlight how the data privacy fight is playing out across the global internet.

Privacy in The Age of Algorithm

Digital technologies are fundamentally changing the way we live, socialize and work. Blockchain, artificial intelligence, machine learning and connected devices are supercharging industry at an astonishing rate. On the face of it, our business and personal lives seem to be heading for a state of nirvana. However, behind the scenes at many organizations, leadership is struggling to cope with one major issue. A lack of digital skills. And this skills gap is only increasing, the bureau of labor statistics indicates that over the next decade the US will need as many as 100,000 new IT workers, however only around 60,000 relevantly skilled workers enter the workforce each year. In this podcast we get to grips with what organizations are doing to address this hot topic.

Understanding the US Skills Gap

Bruce Bergwall

Rob Brown

Career fluidity is now a stable of the modern working world. Many of us entering the workforce will not have similar roles in years to come to what we do today. But herein lies the issue, how are organizations equipping this future workforce for ever changing roles? Not very well is the answer, as among US learners who have needed to upskill for their jobs in the last two years, 42% said they found information online and taught themselves. How do we make sure employees have meaningful and relevant upskilling and professional development opportunities? And how can looking at on the job learning through a prism of future jobs help start this journey today? For the 15th episode in our CFoW podcast series we’ll be looking at how to build the future of talent with Bruce Bergwall and Cognizant’s Rob Brown.

CFoW Podcast 15 – Bruce Bergwall and Rob Brown Explore the Future of Learning

Powering a Cloud-led Digital Transformation Journey - Part 2

At the end of 2017 the Center for the Future of Work published a landmark report titled 21 jobs of the future. Here we laid out in no uncertain terms 21 jobs that are going to emerge over the next 10 years. For the 9th CFoW podcast Rob Brown and myself will be speaking to Marta Michelle Colon, who has experience with individuals who through disaster, have lost everything and see how she sees the role of one of these emerging jobs, Personal Memory Curator, playing out in the next few years.

Digital Memories Are More Powerful than a Hurricane

A real and responsible Artificial intelligence deployment is about strategy, governance and ethics than technology. In this 2-part episode series, experts from Cognizant’s AI &amp; Analytics practice, Poornima Ramaswamy, Dr. Jerry Smith &amp; James Jeude suggest ways to get these elements right and responsibly embrace machine intelligence.

Essential Components of Real and Responsible AI (Part 1)

The future of our modern society currently swings in the balance. With rising carbon emissions and diminishing global forests we are currently facing a new reality as global temperatures continue to increase. Through this shift, oceans around the world will begin to rise and seaside cities such as Osaka, Shanghai and Rio De Janeiro will be vulnerable to flooding. In our recent 21 More Jobs of the Future report, the Center for the Future of Work proposed the idea of Tidewater Architect, a professional that will help mitigate cities such as these against rising sea levels. For this the 13th episode in our CFoW podcast series we’ll be looking at another example of our now 42 jobs of the future coming to life, or as we call it “Spotted in the Wild”. To discuss this today we have Marta Kephart and Cognizant’s Rob Brown.

The future of our modern society currently swings in the balance. With rising carbon emissions and diminishing global forests we are currently facing a new reality as global temperatures continue to increase. Through this shift, oceans around the world will begin to rise and seaside cities such as Osaka, Shanghai and Rio De Janeiro will be vulnerable to flooding. In our recent 21 More Jobs of the Future report, the Center for the Future of Work proposed the idea of Tidewater Architect, a professional that will help mitigate cities such as these against rising sea levels. For this the 13th episode in our CFoW podcast series we’ll be looking at another example of our now 42 jobs of the future coming to life, or as we call it “Spotted in the Wild”. To discuss this today we have Marta Kephart and Cognizant’s Rob Brown.

Tidewater Architects Spotted in the Wild

Matt O’Kane, Vice President and EMEA Head of AI &amp; Analytics at Cognizant, discusses how companies can mimic the successes of digital and internet giants such as Google, Facebook and Uber, using AI and analytics. In this episode, as Matt says, Google is becoming a Machine Learning-first company, layering AI and ML into every area. But to succeed in optimizing for AI, firms must recognize that it needs a different set of criteria to prepare and curate data. By making AI a “first-class citizen” for data and creating a feature store to develop AI models, firms can accelerate and enter a new era where they can re-engineer their businesses by reimagining processes and rethinking challenges.

How to use AI and Analytics like an Internet Giant

In part 1 of this 2-part series, James Jeude, Vice President of the AI &amp; Analytics practice and Steve Levitt, the award winning economist, exchange their views on how artificial intelligence is changing economic theory. Do not miss part 2 of this series to learn how the AI/economics interface helps inform business strategy and market leadership.

Role of AI in Economic Theory

Lou Celi

Robert Brown

Just like our phones, watches and thermostats, so too our cities are becoming smart. These smart cities will utilize IoT, data analytics, quantum computing and artificial intelligence to drive new waves of convenience, safety, efficiency, sustainability and economic growth. Around the world these cities will become the nucleus of industry 4.0. CEO of ESI Thoughtlab, Lou Celi and Cognizant’s Rob Brown take a look at the future of smart cities, how they will be defined and what will make them a reality.

CFoW Podcast 14 – Lou Celi and Robert Brown Explore the Future of Smart Cities

Leaders of companies across the globe are struggling to fill vital digital roles within their organizations. This isn’t due to inept hiring practices but rather a severe lack of digital talent within the jobs market. Many companies are therefore looking to reskill their current workforce to help address this talent gap. In this podcast we get to grips with the intricacies of this reskilling.

Getting To Grips With Reskilling The Workforce

The banking industry in Europe is changing, rapidly! Fintechs and challenger banks, further enabled by PSD2, are changing the competition dynamic for incumbent banks. In some cases these new entrants are disintermediating banks in their very own value chain, specifically in lending. For the 7th CFoW podcast we spoke to one of these disruptors. Alwin Meyer from Swisspeers breaks down the dynamics of P2P lending in Europe.

The Fintech Revolution in Peer to Peer Lending

Though the future of work will always be in the future, the future of your work has never been closer. For nearly 10 years, Cognizant’s Center for the Future of Work has cataloged and commented on these developments, as well as other extraordinary workplace dynamics. In this two-part podcast series on the ever-morphing dynamics of work, we bring you insights into the powerful technological, business and societal trends that remaking work today and in tomorrow.

Though the future of work will always be in the future, the future of your work has never been closer. For nearly 10 years, Cognizant’s Center for the Future of Work has cataloged and commented on these developments, as well as other extraordinary workplace dynamics. In this two-part podcast series on the ever-morphing dynamics of work, we bring you insights into the powerful technological, business and societal trends that remaking work today and in tomorrow.

Prepping for the Future of Work Today (Part 1)

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