How to Achieve a Successful Agile Adoption and Deployment
Shaping the 'bank of tomorrow'
- Given the clear lessons learned from the financial crises, financial institutions in India are playing safe and guarding their interests. With the right emphasis, they could very well harness each one of these opportunities to architect a successful and promising era in Indian financial services ahead.
Measuring the cost of IT services to control IT spend
- CIOs and IT decision makers have to contend with lack of insight into the consumption pattern of IT. An IT Cost Accounting Framework, which helps you discover the application operating cost and allows you to manage your IT cost transparently, could be the much-needed solution.
Is Shared Services right for your Business?
- All good business practitioners inherently drive improvement and success; and Shared Services comes with a big promise attached - ‘reduce costs and improve service quality’. So, is Shared Services right for your business?
Cloud Computing: The Next Big Thing?
- TCS believes that Cloud Computing will be very attractive to the Enterprise IT world and specifically to IT service providers, primarily due the infinite opportunities around business models. Read on to know what you can get out of the Cloud.
TCS Annual Research Report 2008-09
- TCS' scientists are pioneering "out of the box" inter-disciplinary thinking focused on solving globally relevant problems. For a compilation of leading edge IT and domain research this year, read the TCS Annual Research Report 2008-09.
Building Competence in IT Transformation
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At TCS, we have helped our global clients navigate through many waves of IT Transformation over several decades. This collective knowledge and experience accumulated by our consultants now finds expression in the inaugural issue of our Journal ‘Perspectives’.
Accelerating Time to Market for Insurance Products
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The changing economy will define unique opportunities for those insurance companies that can develop appropriate products and get them to market quickly in an environment of both tight budgets and limited resources.
Beyond Traditional Lean: Take Lean to your Value Network
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Successful Lean adoptions have paid a lot of attention to technology enablement strategies as well as a disaggregated process model with baked in concepts of Lean. This holistic approach has helped organizations eliminate waste.
Leveraging Basel II for Enterprise Risk Management
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Many institutions are turning to the Basel II framework as a set of best practices for the implementation of sound, enterprise-wide risk management. However, the implementation process itself raises many challenges that must be addressed.
Effecting Agile and Economic Software Development and Delivery
- The current challenging business environment demands much of organizations. Businesses need to turn out their best in order to merely survive the downturn.
Innovation Networks: Casting a Wider Net for IT Innovation
- Innovation is a key ingredient of success in every industry and Information Technology (IT) is ideally suited to be a company’s innovation champion.
Evolving IT from "Running the Business" to "Changing the Business"
- One of the prime differentiators that separates market leaders from the rest is the amount of time IT spends running the business vs. transforming the business. It's time to capitalize on IT, not just pay for it.
Reduce Application Complexity, Reduce IT Costs
- In challenging economic climates, IT organizations need to balance short-term cuts with long-term structural improvements in areas such as applications.
Rebalancing IT Cost to Fund Business Change
- IT executives continue to be challenged by their ability to meet cost and agility demands from business partners. Today’s IT cost is predominantly devoted to “running the business” (80%), leaving very little for “changing the business” (20%).
Redefining the Value Experience in Banking
- Financial upheavals across the globe have left many ailing institutions bracing for survival. Those that are in good shape are making quick decisions on how to gain competitive advantage while others are assessing the damage.
SMB Comes of Age, Needs IT on Tap!
- The demand for IT services from the SMB sector is growing. Until now, the IT industry has seen this as a market for niche solutions in hardware and software. The business needs of SMBs demand ‘holistic partnership’.
Towards an ideal e-Governance scenario in India
- E-Governance has the potential to benefit India’s citizens exponentially and maximize the return on the government’s investment in it.
IT project underperformance accepted as the norm by global business management, research reveals
- 1 in 3 companies’ IT projects fail to perform against expectations, research from Tata Consultancy Services has revealed. Yet, 43% of organisations say that their business managers and the Board accept problems as the norm.
A Call for Raising Industry Benchmarks in IT Service Delivery
- For all the business insight information technology claims to drive, here’s something to consider about the IT industry for any business that consumes its services – on average you are a consumer of below par IT service delivery; you’re most likely aware of this and have accepted it as fait accompli.