The value of making an informed decision is the paradigm of Business Intelligence (BI). In my experience, SAP implementations tend to focus on making business processes efficient, but seem to lose sight on measuring corporate performance ...

I’m lucky we have demanding clients. Throughout my 20 years in the manufacturing sector my employers and clients have sought to achieve more while spending less. Recently, the speed of rising expectations has accelerated as my clients ...

Business Inspired By Nature - Tomorrow’s Company: Redesigning For Resilience & Agility – future-proofing your business in volatile timesWe are shifting from growth based on consumption to growth based on knowledge. The pace of ...

As companies strive to become more cost effective and maintain focus on core competencies and market differentiators, changes to organizational approach are being applied in an effort to commoditize transactional processes. These processes must achieve the lowest possible costs ...

Atos and SAP have invested in the people side of change, as well as the technology and solutions for improving performance across all of our clients’ business functions (read more). A key offering, organizational change ...

Gene's Point of ViewVisionary companies take advantage during a recession by stepping up innovation and marketing to capture market share from weaker companies. Studies of the last recession show that those companies that maintained or increased advertising during the ...

The central theme of this paper is: The Firm of the Future is a Business Inspired by Nature.We are entering a decade of changes that are likely to be both very fast paced and very fundamental across all areas ...

Leveraging a Global Factory Delivery Model to Improve Your Web Program’s Efficiency How can a marketing tool, based on creativity, work in a “factory” model? Sometimes the biggest challenge for your website is determining the ...

The primary responsibility of Atos’ Organizational Change Management (OCM) & Training team is to prepare your company for the necessary changes that impact how the business functions and how employees do their jobs. Not only does ...

Integrating Training into a Larger Change Management Approach - Isn't training enough?The end user training is complete. Attendance was poor. Evaluations were mediocre, and the business is grumbling that they are not ready. But ...

As working professionals, the economic challenges of the last year have redefined how we look at so many things. Our jobs and job security, our personal spend/save choices, and our trust of public and private entities ...

Making IT work for business and the environment The pressure on companies to reduce carbon emissions will undoubtedly increase, as Governments worldwide seek to reduce the carbon emissions of industrialized nations and limit greenhouse gases of developing nations. Information ...

  In troubled economic times, as companies look for ways to reduce costs to maximize earnings, it’s tempting to look at cuts to the marketing budget as a way to improve margins.  However, such ...

Tae’s Point of ViewMany MES initiatives continue to leave 40-60% 2009 saving opportunities on the table by not blending on and offshore skills. Given the current economic climate, many MES practitioners are faced with challenged implementation ...

Achieving improved operating efficiencies is a material part of any M&A business case. Leveraging an economy of scale and supporting combined revenue with something less than combined costs, businesses can deliver on their economic promise to stakeholders. ...

Atos Origin maintains quality as it grows its offshore footprint“Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail”      -- Ralph Waldo ...

As discussed in my last article, offshoring has led many organizations to believe that rushing into a ‘one size fits all’ model is immediately beneficial. When in reality, it actually introduces new risks and disruption. ...

From the business perspective, we know that IT outsourcing makes sense. Outsourcing simply allows companies to concentrate on their core business while a quality IT service provider, such as Atos Origin, offers a comprehensive and strategic partnership ...

Security is an essential component to sustainable corporate success. As technological innovation continues to redefine and improve how companies conduct business, so too expands the list of threats, vulnerabilities, and risks to an organization’s wellbeing.Perhaps ...

Why read this?We have written this paper specifi cally to help people with a professional focus on operational excellence in manufacturing, energy and utilities. If you work in any of these sectors, sustainability is nothing new. ...

Municipalities might not be top-of-mind candidates for the technologies used by Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) applications since their business models and information technology needs appear to differ considerably from those of traditional manufacturing companies. For example, ...

It is interesting to see from Google Trends® and Google Insights® that the interest in ‘project management office’, ‘program management’ and ‘project management maturity’ have been steadily decreasing and the interest in ...

Globalization is creating new dynamics in the way we do business. Ibero America (Spain and Latin America) has significantly intensified its economic activity in Europe and in the U.S. over the past ten years. With ...

Adapting to the changing landscape In what are now some of the toughest market conditions in over 20 years, organizations are under increasing pressure to cut costs and to run leaner and more efficient operations. This challenging economic climate ...