The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on our world and cost millions their lives. It’s disrupted economies and education systems and taken away livelihoods.

Spending on technology among manufacturing respondents will rise from 5.5% of revenue currently to a predicted 8.5% of revenue by 2023, which is below the cross-industry average.

Business and tech leaders need to combine forces to convince skeptics that artificial intelligence should be doing more picking low hanging fruit.

The more data that drops, the clearer the message for institutes of higher learning—in order to keep pace with today’s society, operations must change. In this episode, Kshitij Nerurkar, Education Business Leader at Cognizant, drills down on his numbers for further evidence.

A new survey of 1,000 senior executives finds that only 20% of U.S. companies are fully employing AI for decision-making in business.

Pushed into uncharted territories by the COVID-19 crisis, businesses across industries are relying more on process automation, but have a long way to go before reaping its full potential, says Mariesa Coughanour, an AVP within Cognizant’s Intelligent Automation practice.

Having a vision for customer experience is important, but it’s not enough, says Mark Taylor, a global leader in Cognizant’s Digital Experience practice. Here are the other dimensions and insights needed to differentiate the brand.

Chain restaurants of all culinary persuasions have experimented with virtual assistants, which provide another digital channel through which customers may order food. However, few quick-service chains are using artificial intelligence (AI) to help humans take orders more quickly and personalize service.

Rob Walker, UK&I managing director at Cognizant, explores the data management parallels between Formula 1 and government work.

As advancements like digital humans, machine learning, robotic process automation and quantum computing fuse, captains of business will soon have the technological wherewithal to reach greater heights and fend off exogenous events says Ben Pring, chief futurist within Cognizant’s Center for the Future of Work.