Cloudsourcing – How to leverage cloud when building new business
Building your company with an agile, cloud-based IT function is easier and more cost-effective than ever. Here’s how to do it the right way.
Engineering for resilience: Engineering excellence and how to achieve it
In the fifth and last of a series of articles on how businesses can make their IT more resilient, we examine how a strong engineering culture and skill set are essential to scaling modern architectures with resilience.
Why NOW is the Right Time to Rethink Your ERP Transformation
Organizations need to answer the most crucial question for ERP transformations: what is the right approach?
Protecting Digital Value with Third-Party Cyber Risk Management
As companies fight their way to a post-COVID-19 future, their executives are accelerating digital transformation efforts.
Designing for resilience: How next generation tech architecture can make your IT more scalable and robust
In the fourth in a series of articles on how businesses can make their IT more resilient, we discuss how architecture designs must evolve to integrate new technology changes and keep pace with faster change
Measuring resilience: How service level agreements can improve your company’s IT resilience
In the third of a series of articles on how businesses can make their IT more resilient, we discuss practical methods to identify and develop service-level metrics connecting business to technology resilience.
Flipping the Mindset: Viewing ERP Modernization as Business Transformation
Upgrading legacy and core systems is high risk but can be high reward if approached effectively. Key to success is flipping the mindset; treating it as an opportunity for business improvement rather than a technology project.
How to get there: Maturity models for SRE and stages of development
In the second of a series of articles on on IT resilience, we articulate five stages of development in our maturity model
Why Green IT is critical for the sustainable future of your company
Many companies and governments have set themselves ambitious targets to achieve carbon neutrality before 2050. To accomplish the set goals, an immense shift along the entire IT value chain is required.
Laying the foundation for a successful S/4HANA transformation
Planning and rolling out a complete ERP transformation can be quite challenging especially for globally operating enterprises.
Social Impact at BCG Platinion - We use digital expertise to make a difference in the world
We help organizations unlock their digital potential to make the most out of their nonprofit operations, thus building a better world for us all.
Stronger by Design: How ‘technology resilience’ can cut costs and boost your company’s profits
In the first of a series of articles on IT resilience, we tackle how ‘technology resilience’ can cut costs and boost your company’s profits.
Greenfield Mindset: How an evolved PMI setup can increase a company's innovative power
Typically, PMI focuses on the pure integration of the target company’s IT landscape. During this phase, it is decided whether and which applications of the target company should be retained.
Agile@Scale: A Critical Success Factor during the COVID-19 Pandemic
One team shares their experiences conducting an Agile S/4HANA transformation during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown.
Automated processes straight off the assembly line
From sophisticated production lines in the consumer goods industry to intelligent robots in state of the art battery factories: Automation was long considered the domain of the manufacturing industry.
Becoming one IT organization is a challenging journey
Post-Merger-Integration projects (‘PMIs’) are some of the most challenging projects for large organizations. Two or more fundamentally different “worlds” need to be fused into a new unique, homogeneous entity whilst realizing ambitious cost and efficiency targets.
Flexibility increases resilience: Preparing the IT function
The COVID-19 crisis has shown that companies who are set up for flexibility are more resilient against environmental change and are able to adapt quicker.
Avoiding the Cloud Cost Apocalypse
How can enterprises master emerging public cloud cost challenges? By following a sustainable approach to public cloud financial governance. Find out more in this article.
Personalisation excellence accelerates profits
COVID-19 has radically changed consumer behavior. Sales through Online channels have doubled since the first days of the COVID-19 pandemic. Find out more in this article.
Enabling IT based on an end-to-end Digital Twin
We support clients with an IT Stabilization Program in Engineering, Logistics and Manufacturing to strengthen operations and create the resilience required to think the Digital Twin end-to-end.
Enable Social Impact through technology
We want to drive Social Impact based on what we know best – Technology. Leveraging our strong consulting skills with comprehensive and deep IT expertise, we enable others to focus on their purpose.
A smoother, speedier path to agile in Industrial Goods
Mention industrial goods and “agile” doesn’t typically spring to mind. Yet the same methodologies that have turbocharged collaboration and responsiveness for tech companies can bring dramatic improvements to a wide range of industries.
How to make digital transformation a sustained force
How can companies sustain digital transformation? This article explores the deep-rooted, necessary change organizations need to take from three perspectives.
What Unique Role Can Digital Play in Tough Times?
Learn how IT-enabled efficiencies – not only in the core, but also in the IT function – have the potential to strengthen a company’s resilience.
The new rise of eCommerce
The global lockdown has driven demand for electronic commerce and now requires organizations to upgrade their strategy and technology.
Cloudsourcing – How to leverage cloud when building new business
Building your company with an agile, cloud-based IT function is easier and more cost-effective than ever. Here’s how to do it the right way.
How Cost Cutting Initiatives can be Supported by Digital Technologies
Digital technologies offer cost cutting opportunities which were not available during previous economic crises. Digital solutions enable business leaders to prepare their organizations for the time after shutdown by ensuring a more cost-effective return to day-to-day operations.
GitOps: Build infrastructure resilient applications
The Concept of DevOps is widely accepted and adopted into today’s business world, but automated deployments can often cause problems. Read on for a perspective on the GitOps approach and how it can positively impact modern CI/CD architectures.
Finding a New Normal in the Cloud
To maximize productivity and efficiency in this digital new normal environment, organizations will need to combine technology with organizational innovation.
Comfortable with being uncomfortable?
We are all gurus with large tool-kits at our disposal to help our teams and organisations adapt to rapidly changing corporate ecosystems. It is time we think of social justice as an equally important and relevant target for our skills and become better diversity allies.
The Sudden Rise of DeFi: Opportunities and Risks for Financial Services
In a joint research project, BCG Platinion and Crypto.com analyse the rise of decentralised finance and weigh its recent progress against its ability to substitute centralised services in payments, loans and exchanges.
Make technology change easy by reshaping your approach to Enterprise Integration
Larger organisations often make mistakes in their Enterprise Integration that lead to serious pain when they attempt to integrate IT systems. Read on to learn how to avoid these pitfalls.
Digital Transformation and Climate Change — Are they reconcilable?
Digital Transformation and Climate transition : should optimizing one be at the expense of the other? Could Tech, Digital and Data help? What if considering both topics at the same time is a better recipe for success? Tackle these burning questions in this article.
Making the right choice - steering business decisions for software development
Decisions are often unknowingly influenced by someone’s own preferences what might lead to wrong decisions.
Ten best practices on becoming a data driven company
Becoming a data-driven company is an imperative for many enterprises. The objective is clear, but the way to get there can be quite rocky.
The cloud market in LatAm: Jumping on a high-speed train
The LatAm cloud technology market has shown significant growth potential, with continued expansion across all segments as penetration of the solutions continues to be below that of developed markets.
Leveraging Customer Data in Energy Retail
“Stepping into a million shoes”. Data is growing in importance unlike ever before, empowering both utilities and their customer alike.
