HFS PODCASTS

HFS PODCASTS

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HFS PODCASTS episodes

  • Phil Fersht Talks with Sunil Mittal, CEO, Movate™ (formerly CSS Corp)

    On this special Fireside Chat, HFS CEO Phil Fersht is in conversation with Sunil Mittal, CEO at Movate where Sunil shares the big news of rebranding and renaming CSS Corp and the overall rebranding journey.

    Phil and Sunil cover a range of topics, including:

    • What’s the new name of CSS Corp and why did you rebrand it?
    • What does the new name signify?
    • What is the vision behind the directly on-demand acquisition, and how does this strengthen your go-to-market?
    • Do you feel that the directly on-demand app is really bringing new capability, and access to talent in this economy? So how effective are you finding this?
    • How does the future direction plan look like after rebranding?
    • 11 min
    • Hot Vendor Firesides: Discover AuraQuantic’s 9 million-user No Code process management platform

      AuraQuantic is as close to a low-code (they would say no code) platform as any we’ve heard a client attest to. Often described as an iBPMS (intelligent business process management system), the platform has approximately 100 employees and has amassed about 9 million active users across 27 industries. AuraQuantic partners with various system integrators (SIs) and business consultancies including Accenture, Capgemini, Microsoft, and PWC, spread throughout 52 countries. HFS designates AuraQuantic a OneOffice™ Hot Vendor because of a relentless customer focus, co-innovation, and co-development of its platform and for showing what successful low-code outcomes are in real life.

      AuraQuantic has a fascinating founding story – find out why the man who was Spain’s youngest ever engineering graduate chose to create the company in this videocast. It was named an HFS OneOffice Hot Vendor in Q3, 2021.

      The HFS OneOffice Hot Vendors are an exclusive group of emerging players, each with a differentiated value proposition for the OneOffice. HFS analysts regularly speak with numerous exciting start-ups and emerging players. We designate a select group as the HFS Hot Vendors based on their distinctiveness, ecosystem robustness, client impact, financial position, and the impact on our OneOffice Framework. Those selected are collated and published in our quarterly series. They each have the vision and strategy to impact and disrupt the market.

      The videocast is in three sections in which we:

      • Warm-up: What does this Hot Vendor deliver?
      • Fan the flames: This Hot Vendor’s journey, what they learned, what makes them different, and how do they see the market?
      • Light the way: Take a glance into what’s next on the agenda for this Hot Vendor.
      • 29 min
      • Unfiltered Stories | Supply Chain elevated to key level and board room conversational topic

        In this edition of Unfiltered Stories, Saurabh Gupta, President of Research & Advisory Services at HFS connects with Sumit Dutta, Principal/Partner, Americas Co-leader Supply Chain & Operations at EY, and Matthew Burton, Partner, EMEIA Supply Chain and Operations Leader at EY to discuss the most talked topic the supply chain, its challenges and the way to deal with it.

        Saurabh, Sumit, and Matthew cover a range of topics, including:

        • How and why supply chain has become the key level and board room conversational topic?
        • How can enterprises address these supply chain challenges - Transparency and Resilience?
        • Is there a mindset shift that we also need to think about beyond these points – becoming more predictable, leveraging digital technologies, making some structural changes, etc.?
        • How do we get to solve or attempt to solve some of these sustainability challenges?
        • What is EY doing to help clients in this supply chain journey?
        • Are we heading into a recession? What is the one ray of light that you will share with the enterprises?
        • 27 min
        • HFS OneOffice Awards Videocast | With winners of Data and Decisions category

          In this HFS OneOffice Awards Videocast, Sam Duncan, Practice Leader at HFS Research, talks with Sandeep Arora, Vice President at Sysco Business Services, and Rajeev Girdhar, Global Relationship Manager at Genpact about their OneOfficeTM Award win in Data and Decision category and overall journey.

          Sam, Sandeep, and Rajeev cover a range of topics, including:

          • The unexpected issues, benefits, or learnings they experienced.
          • What they would do differently if they were to do this again.
          • Any tips they can offer to others considering this journey.
          • To know more, visit here https://www.hfsresearch.com/one-office-awards/sysco-in-partnership-with-genpact/

            19 min
          • Fireside Chat between Phil Fersht and Avinash Misra

            On this special Fireside Chat, HFS CEO Phil Fersht talks with Avinash Misra, CEO at Skan.ai about the evolution, digital journey, and future strategy of Skan.ai

            Phil and Avinash cover a range of topics, including:

            • Why is process intelligence such a topic of the area at this moment and why should people care?
            • What is process intelligence?
            • What’s the link between RPA and process intelligence and where it is going next?
            • Do we see much more involvement of CTOs/CIOs in automation and process intelligence now?
            • Where is Skan.ai in its evolution and what do you think is going to happen in this whole process of the tech industry?
            • How do we see Skan.ai fitting into the corporate tech jigsaws in a couple of years?
            • 19 min
            • Up Close: Healthcare and Life Sciences | Practice Leader Rohan Kulkarni reviews his latest research and looks ahead to the next few months

              In this fourth episode of Up Close, Mark Reed-Edwards talks with our healthcare and life sciences practice leader at HFS, Rohan Kulkarni. Rohan looks back on the past few months and shares what he has published right up to the most recent research on HFSResearch.com.

              Highlights of some recent work in Healthcare & Life sciences include:

              • The release of the bi-annual HCP Top 10 with 18 service providers
              • Our views on Metaverse and healthcare will lay to rest the hype vs. reality
              • A recent study indicated how social determinants of Health solutions are commercially viable
              • A digital round table about personalizing healthcare with cloud-enabled data and analytics
              • The research on how service provider capabilities have matured in the LS industry to drive disruption and redefine GT
              • Looking ahead to the next couple of months, Rohan has some interesting work waiting in the wings, including:

                • We just launched the 2022 Healthcare Services Top 10 and expect to evaluate close to 30 service providers across multiple market segments
                • Our research on Amazon’s acquisition of OneMedical will disrupt health insurance for primary care in the US – our prediction is coming true
                • Our research on the impact of the recession on healthcare
                • Our research on why not having a chief medical officer in the ranks of service providers leadership is missing a trick
                • We’ll be back next month with another update. Until then, keep an eye on HFSResearch.com for Rohan's latest work, and drop him a line if you have any questions.

                  10 min
                • Unfiltered Stories | Why Ethereum is the number one blockchain platform for enterprises

                  In this edition of Unfiltered Stories, Saurabh Gupta, President of Research & Advisory Services at HFS connects with Dan Burnett, Executive Director at Enterprise Ethereum Alliance to discuss the usage of public blockchain in enterprise use cases.

                  Saurabh and Dan cover a range of topics, including:

                  • What is Enterprise Ethereum Alliance and what’s its mission?
                  • What does success mean to Enterprise Ethereum Alliance?
                  • How should an average business owner look at all these things – Krypto, Blockchain, Smart Contracts, Private vs Public, NFTs, CBDCs, Web3?
                  • Where is Enterprise Ethereum Alliance right now with respect to enterprise blockchain from an adoption perspective – Still in the hype phase or beyond it?
                  • What is EEA doing to address some of the environmental impacts?
                  • What are some of the examples of using Ethereum in everyday life?
                  • Where do we see Enterprise Ethereum Alliance playing a role as this Web3, Metaverse starts to gain momentum beyond just behind?
                  • 36 min
                  • Unfiltered Stories | In conversation with Cognizant executives on the challenges their customers faced in their App Modernization journey

                    In this edition of Unfiltered Stories, Joel Martin, Research Leader at HFS connects with Srini Thiagarajan, CTO at Cognizant Application Services, Aurimas Adomavicius, Head of Product at Cognizant Digital Engineering, and Saleha Williams, Global Head of Strategy at Cognizant Application Services to discuss what is driving application modernization efforts, challenges, and stories from the front line.

                    Joel, Srini, Aurimas, and Saleha covers cover a range of topics, including:

                    • What are the perspectives gained from in-field experiences with helping clients address the changes as they move beyond the digital transformation?
                    • What are the challenges that CTO/CIO/CEOs faced with modernizing their business to become cloud-native?
                    • What is the impact they are bringing even as the pandemic continues to be on their minds?
                    • What is the importance of acting as a OneOffice?
                    • 54 min
                    • Unfiltered Stories | The supply chain & sustainability connection

                      We need greater visibility and collaboration

                      In this edition of Unfiltered Stories, Josh Matthew, Practice Leader at HFS connects with Sheri Hinish, Global Sustainability Services and Alliances Leader at IBM, and Janina Nakladal, Global Director of Sustainability at Celonis to discuss about supply chain and sustainability and the connection between them.

                      Sustainability is this massive systems-level problem. Supply chains are massive systems within that problem. Supply chains and sustainability are becoming intertwined in every strategy, technology, and process conversation. Visibility and transparency are critical - but they need new context. Perhaps the overriding priority is collaboration.

                      24 min
                    • HFS Sustainability Services Top 10, 2022

                      On this HFS Videocast, Mark Reed-Edwards, Chief Marketing Officer, HFS is joined by Josh Matthews, Practice Leader, HFS to discuss the HFS Sustainability Services Top 10, 2022 which was released recently.

                      Josh walks us through the HFS Sustainability Services Top 10, 2022 — and exactly what it covers and finally, reveals the notable performers in the Top 10.

                      You can read this Top 10 at https://www.hfsresearch.com/research/hfs-top-10-sustainability-services-2022/

                      7 min

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