Peter Bendor-Samuel

Moving your company to a digital operational environment requires much more than changing its technology. The goal of creating and delivering new value for your customers also necessitates changes to your talent model, processes, philosophies and organizational structure. A complicating factor is the nature of the initiative – transformation is a multi-year journey, and

After five years of buzz, there is now a lot of momentum in companies adopting Robotic Process Automation (RPA) technology. At Everest Group, our Pinnacle Model™ research assessed the impact of more than 200 leading companies on digital journeys implementing RPA. Our assessment identified companies achieving superior business outcomes (Pinnacle Enterprises™), including 4X the ROI as

Augmented reality is an exciting digital transformation technology that is surprisingly powerful, and it has a wide variety of applications across industries. But, to me, what is most striking – and more important – about AI is the enormous amount of organizational change it drives across core operations. If your company is considering implementing

The services industry is in disruption, pivoting from highly profitable but mature labor arbitrage factories to a rapidly growing, immature new market based on automation and software-defined market with digital platforms generating value. Most large companies have outsourced numerous IT and business process functions and now depend on the supply chain of services. However,

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is a powerful set of digital tools that is poised to have a dramatic effect on the services industry, particularly the business process industry. RPA tools automate well-understood processes currently being done by hand and that have been outsourced. But from our findings in my employer Everest Group’s Pinnacle Model research

Like most businesses today, your company is probably looking at the possible cost and productivity improvements achievable through digital technologies such as Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and analytics. If so, it’s important to understand that digital transformation is a journey of very deep and broad, company-wide change. Through our Pinnacle Model™ research on digital journeys, we

A business model change often overwhelms transformation initiatives. As I blogged previously, digital transformation collapses business processes into data. When organizations start looking at their business through the lens of data instead of the lens of a business process, serious issues arise. How the people in a company use the data and make decisions about

I believe we’re on the doorstep of very important changes in IT market conditions. IT groups have experimented with hybrid cloud, agile and DevOps, and businesses have experimented with analytics and increasingly experiment with AI. Companies are confident they can now move some pilot experiments into programs, knowing they will support the weight of

The effects digital transformation reminds me of the beginning words in Charles Dickens’ “A Tale of Two Cities” – it was the best of times, it was the worst of times, … it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair …. One of the interesting aspects of digital transformation is

As the third-party services industry pivots away from the factory model of labor arbitrage-based work toward digital work, having local delivery centers becomes increasingly important to service providers. Firms such as EPAM and Luxoft are investing in Eastern European operations (Bratislava, Krakow, Prague and Sofia, for instance). And Wipro has invested in a delivery