Mark Taylor, Global Markets Lead - Digital Experience, shares his thoughts on the four-day working week.

Cognizant, one of the world’s biggest professional services and outsourcing companies, plans to create 320 jobs in Ireland over the next three years, mostly in its life sciences manufacturing division serving the pharmaceutical sector.

The Australian explosives and chemicals group Orica tapped Cognizant to provide a digital ESG platform that shows real-time reporting and forecasting of its greenhouse gas emissions.

In support of Data Privacy Week leaders from across the cybersecurity community have offered their views on the trending threats facing data privacy, and how organisations can best protect themselves.

“Leading players in the banking industry have made notable progress in key areas, such as modernisation of their core and personalisation of services. These are positive steps in the right direction, but the banking and capital markets industry as a whole still has a lot to do to build on these initial successes and continue on its modernisation journey.”

Services providers continue investing in cloud professional services businesses. Cognizant, an IT services company based in Teaneck, N.J., said last week it will acquire the professional services and application management practices of OneSource Virtual, a company that provides services around Workday's SaaS ERP platform.

Cognizant has appointed two new members to its executive committee leadership team. Ravi Kumar will join Cognizant as president of Cognizant Americas. The other appointment is that of Prasad Sankaran who will be joining Cognizant as the new head of the Software and Platform Engineering practice area.

John Kim, General Counsel at Cognizant, has been named one of the top 20 in-house legal leaders by Financial Times. Learn more about his philosophy on success and how that translates to Cognizant’s growth.

AI can be beneficial in advancing the future of life sciences as long as a human touch is used to respect ethics. With good governance and controls, AI will help the life sciences industry find insights for new therapies from its vast quantities of scientific research and clinical studies.

Sophia Mendelsohn, Chief Sustainability Officer, and Global Head of ESG at Cognizant, addresses Cognizant’s ESG strategy and why employee well-being needs to be considered in the context of climate change on the GreenBiz 350 podcast.

If you’re looking for a story about what a B2B brand can do to drive awareness, shift brand perceptions, and build a top-talent pit crew—this episode with Cognizant CMO Gaurav Chand is a hole-in-one. Tune in for a fascinating look into the world of B2B sports sponsorships, a track that Cognizant has entered full throttle with Formula One, PGA Tour, and LPGA Tour sponsorships.

The USISPF, which announced three new business executives have joined its Board of Directors, said their experience as leaders in healthcare, IT services and consulting, and private equity, will prove an asset in its work to create a "powerful bilateral partnership" between the United States and India. Rajesh Nambiar, Chairman and Managing Director of Cognizant India, is among the trio of new business leaders joining its Board.

Cognizant’s Chief Financial Officer Jan Siegmund was featured on Bridge Between’s podcast Return on Generosity on how to “Lead with Authenticity.” In this personal account of Jan’s career, he shares both his own story of entering the workforce as well as his approach to demonstrating authentic leadership and fostering inclusive workplaces.

Amid political instability, climate crisis, runaway inflation and war, it would be easy to miss the signal through the noise: The world no longer functions as it once did, and the first digital era—that of emerging digital connections, stable societies, slowly warming climates and predictable economies—concluded with two years lost to the pandemic.

Interview of the week: Brian Humphries, Cognizant Chief Executive

The post-pandemic era has well and truly begun. With changing times come changing expectations, and as with every new movement, expectation around ‘how things have been’ has evolved. A key focus of where this change is necessary is in the workplace.

Everything has changed about the workplace during the past two years – and the future's going to involve some big changes, too.

Five ways leaders can help employees develop a stronger connection between their work and a purpose that’s meaningful to them.

Recruiting and retention are tough at the moment, and employers need to work harder than ever to acquire and keep the talent they need. Purpose is often talked about as a critical differentiator in employer branding, but what does that actually mean in practical terms?

The analysts at Bloomberg Intelligence track some 2,000 companies in finance, retail, energy, technology, and more, have identified 50 worth watching carefully in the year ahead.