Our thought leadership initiatives focus on deep understanding of business and industry issues. Wipro's Council for Industry Research, in collaboration with leading academic institutions and industry bodies, studies potential market trends and equips organizations with insights that would facilitate their IT and business strategy. This is one of the first such councils set up in our industry, focusing on research that would address the business issues of customers. ‘Future drivers’ is a collection of insights and perspectives that we believe will drive the industry of tomorrow.

• Variabilization of Technology
• World of Constraints
• Consumerization of Technology
• Analytics

Variabilization of Technology to enhance business agility

Uses tenets like scale, standardization, simplification and Lean to drive efficiency, optimize delivery and lower unit costs.

 

Variabilization of It – Transforming The Business Landscape

This paper focuses on how variabilization is transforming today's enterprises and provides a comparison of the various commercial models and the strategic benefits they bring in.

The Global Supply Chain Goes Collaborative

This paper highlights the importance of developing the ability to secure business continuity to anticipate and mitigate possible supply chain disruptions.

Identity & Access Management In The Cloud

This paper intends to provide a Point of View on the various considerations for IAM for the cloud and guidance to organizations on the approach to take for IAM deployment.

Identify your Cloud Potential

The Cloud is a revolution. Find out where your organization stands in cloud strategies and adoption as compared to the competition. Take this short assessment.

An opportunity to Invent and Reinvent business - Watch this video

See how Cloud is becoming integral to corporate strategy and moving from the back office to the boardroom.

CLOUD POTENTIAL:
The Opportunity to Invent and Reinvent Business

Wipro's survey of 100 CXOs reveals how the Cloud is becoming integral to corporate strategy and is moving from the back office to the boardroom.

Multiscreen Cloud Based Content Delivery to Serve as ‘Backbone’ for Telcos

Read about multi-screen cloud based content delivery services, the new business models it opens up and how telcos can tap this opportunity.

Cloud First: Not Just Transformation, But Innovation

Cloud adoption has gone from small back room Proofs of Concept and experiments to mainstream. This paper examines how quickly organizations have understood the criticality of the cloud and its role in business.

Variabilization of Information Technology

This infographic highlights the opportunities that exist in variabilization of information technology and virtualization and what it means for enterprises.

Capitalizing on IT infrastructure services for an effective IT risk management in banks

This paper examines the importance of IT risk management in banks. The various frameworks used to adhere to regulatory compliances and manage risks better are detailed with emphasis on Basel II/III.

Software Vendor's Evolution in the new Industry Paradigm

Continued consolidation in the ISV, rapid technological advances, intense competition, shrinking product lifecycles are changing the way software products are being developed and delivered.

IT INVESTMENTS AND BUSINESS VALUE

This Wipro survey of 268 global business executives demonstrates the positive impact IT investments have on business outcomes and how companies are increasingly looking at IT as a strategic enabler.

FOI - new business options for TMT in the digital age

In this white paper produced jointly by Knowledge@Wharton and Wipro, Ayan Mukerji and Kevin Werbach assess the upcoming changes in TMT and what it will take to address them successfully.

Prospects of M2M

We argue that the future of M2M is brightened by the advent of smart devices.This paper discusses the various telemetry based M2M models and their impact on the industry.

The state of Global Clinical Research Trials

This exclusive UBM TechWeb and Wipro research explores the key trends and challenges of conducting clinical trials in emerging markets.

Telematics

The automotive industry has come a long way since the invention of the steam-powered automobile. This paper discusses the emerging significance of telematics, the various challenges and the opportunities that galore for service providers.

SaaS Maturity Evolution for ISVs

This whitepaper discusses about the evolution of SaaS maturity models amongst the ISVs and how they are leveraging the SaaS model to do business better.

Moving forward in reverse: Why US telecom companies should forget the past?

Read about the phenomenal growth of the Indian telecom sector and the concept of reverse innovation.

The Road to Better Visibility: Virtualization, the Cloud and Managed Services

The growing popularity of Virtualization has also led to a host of technological complexities cropping up, initiating the need to fine tune the associated problems and strengthen the IT systems available.

The Basel 3 Era: Banking on IT to Power Growth

Banks face regulations and restrictions, yet they need to cope with the increasing demands of market expansion; a partner expert in IT and business process optimization can be an invaluable asset.

CIO series: Chris Perreta

In this edition of the CIO series, State Street CIO Chris Perretta reveals how to bring Precision, Planning and Execution to IT Projects and advance Business Strategy.

Wipro Voice: How Outsourcing Service Providers enable Business growth through IT Infrastructure Transformation

Deepak Jain, President and Global Head, Technology Infrastructure Services talks about the 21st century virtual corporation

Innovation to win in a world of constraints (global resources)

As resources (energy, capital or talent) diminish, organizations will need to innovate in various ways to sustain themselves.

 

The Future is Green

Adopting green manufacturing practices and achieving green targets require long-term commitment and sustained effort on the part of business, however, sustainability is non-negotiable argues Anand Sankaran, Senior Vice President and Business Head, India and Middle East, Global Business Head, Infrastructure and Services

Sustainability Reporting Mirror, Microscope, Springboard

Sustainability reporting by the corporate sector is today at a potential inflection point. Whether it can fulfill its role will depend on a variety of factors, extrinsic and intrinsic to companies says P.S. Narayan, Vice President, Ecoeye

Making the Carbon Commitments

Achieving the carbon reduction goals is a reward in itself apart from operational efficiencies and enhanced sustainability profile. It is undoubtedly the path to be pursued resolutely recommends Syed Mansoor Ahmad and Ravi Meghani

Achieving Energy Savings in the Age of Capital Constraints

Mohan Gunaratham – Practice Head, Water & Energy Management, Ciaran Oliver Heaney – Sr. Consultant suggest that organizations need to ensure that their energy efficiency programs are managed holistically, with processes established to enable visibility into critical areas of operations.

The New Journey to the Center of the Earth

Tomorrow’s mines will almost certainly need to have fewer humans resulting in greater efficiency, lower costs and improved safety and environmental performance. Kenneth Mathews, Vice President & Head – Natural Resources explains how

Successful Change Management to Build a Sustainable Organization

The key to successful change management is about inducing a behavioral change among the people involved says Kaushik Sanyal, Associate Practice Partner, WCS and Shiv Kumar Muthyala, Manager, Functional Excellence, WCS

Innovation To Win In a World of Constraints

The rapid rise in consumption and growth in the last few years has made resource constraints of various kinds an important factor in the operating calculus of enterprises forcing them to shift to new business models

Arming Your Security Operations Center With The Right Technology & Services

This whitepaper discusses the importance of IT security for enterprises and why it is imperative for them to embark on a holistic security program in their SOC.

A Practical Approach to Post-Merger Integration

This paper highlights the importance of structured decision making in a large deal through a business example.

Maximizing the Value of an M&A!

Read about the various M&A integration options, the role of organization structure, the common integration challenges, the impact of delayed integration and typical post integration challenges.

Revolutionizing the Downstream Supply Chain

This paper discusses the challenges faced by haulers in the transportation of product in the downstream sector and the role of technology-based strategies to add agility to operations with significant operational and cost breakthroughs.

Avoiding quality chaos online

Read about quality and its role and importance in an organization.

E-Invoicing : fulfilling the promise of collaboration

This paper discusses the role of e-invoicing in an organization, the adoption process and the various benefits it brings in.

CIO series: Chris Perreta

In this edition of the CIO series, State Street CIO Chris Perretta reveals how to bring Precision, Planning and Execution to IT Projects and advance Business Strategy.

Lean Knowledge Work - HBR

This joint paper by HBR and Wipro technologies presents a 6-step methodology for turning organizations lean

IT 360 Whitepaper

How can businesses leverage IT for growth? How can IT help lower operational cost? How can IT help meet regulatory pressure and de-risk business? - Find out how Wipro’s IT 360 helps answer these questions.

Opportunities in Cleantech Services

This joint report by Stanford University and Wipro Technologies discusses the policy and business drivers of cleantech, and the development of the cleantech sector in terms of business models, globalization, technological diffusion and growth.

How can companies come together without going apart?

How should teams respond to change in IT organizations, processes and governance that are an inevitable part of an M&A? How different is it to redesign value chains for an M&A? – This paper answers these questions.

GREEN - Enabling India's Agenda for Inclusive Growth

This paper discusses in detail how India can take a path of development, which will be environment-friendly and focuses on inclusive growth, where it is shown how the greening of India's economy can help in generating green jobs and bridging the energy divide....

Where is Upstream Data and Information Management Headed?

This joint survey by the Oil and Gas Journal Online Research Centre and Wipro reveals the variety of data-related needs, constraints and perceptions in the O&G industry.

Consumerization of Technology fuelling business value through productivity

Services and products in the consumer space are driving enterprise technology advances and its deployment today.

 

Mobile Application Management

It is possible that your business, riding the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) trend, was busy developing and deploying a Mobile Device Management (MDM) strategy.

Mobile Payments

When you think of mobile payments, the image conjured is of consumers tapping their smartphones at a POS terminal, picking up their purchase and walking out.

The Future is Mobile

We are witnessing a consumer led IT revolution. Find out how it challenges organizations to re-look at existing business practices and continuously reinvent themselves.

Windows 8: Suitability For Enterprises

Read about how enterprises can benefit from Windows 8 and the challenges they face in adoption.

The Top Digital Priorities of Today’s CMO

This article, part of the Wipro Voice series, talks about the three most important levers of marketing departments today – developing relevant content, targeting the right channels and expanding the reach.

BYOD - An erosion of Information Security and Privacy

This paper explores the security related challenges related to BYOD and proposes an approach to handle them.

Driving Innovation for Transformation: How CIOs Can Capture the Opportunity in Mobile Business Applications

Read about the consumer influenced Enterprise Mobile Applications(EMA) mindset and how CIOs can capture this opportunity.

The Mobile Enterprise Employee Self Service

This paper discusses the growing trend of millennials entering organizations and the impact they have on the organizational policies.

How retail partners and mobility can help deliver value to bank customers

Faced with 3 seemingly disparate trends – need for savings, growth in mobile usage and the advent of coupon aggregators, how can banks create a sticky solution at the convergence of these three trends?

Harnessing the Power of "like" on Facebook

E-commerce is faced with several challenges such as sterile shopping experience and lack of personal touch. Read this paper to find out how e-tailers can harness the power of facebook “LIKE” to create a revolution.

The Consumer IT Revolution

This report examines the impact of C.IT on economic productivity and, in particular, explores the future benefits and challenges it presents for businesses.

Meet the Enterprise Smart Store

This paper highlights the growing importance of Enterprise Mobile Applications based on a survey of senior leaders of 161 companies

Mobility: Creating the Usability Revolution

This paper focusses on the evolution in the user experience created by a usability revolution and the challenges involved in creating an outstanding user experience.

The Role of Social Media in Business

This paper discusses the rapid rise of social media in Asia and its impact on business and society. It sheds light on the factors responsible for this growth and how businesses can use this to connect better with their customers and employees.

The Digital TV Transformation Opportunity: From Idiot Box to an Evolutionizing Gadget

Read about the rapidly changing DTV market and the opportunities it opens up for all the stakeholders – OEMs, Content providers, semiconductor companies, ISVs and ODMs

Winning the enterprise mobility opportunity

Wipro’s survey for this report reveals that organizations who succeed with enterprise mobility will establish a competitive edge in sales performance, operational efficiency, and employee productivity.

Influencing Customers Buying Decisions Through Digital Platforms

Read about how Consumer Goods companies can use social, location and mobile based services to influence buying decisions of consumers in stores.

Content Monetization Strategies for the Digital Publisher

This whitepaper looks at different segments like newspaper publishing, periodical publishing, trade publishing, and business information services, the various models they use and their content monetization strategies.

Customers Are Ready For Mobile Commerce, But Are Retailers Ready?

This paper discusses the various upcoming trends in the retail landscape and what it takes for retailers to achieve accelerated growth and improve their business performance.

CIO Series: Diversey

In this edition of the CIO series, Brent Hoag, VP and CIO at Diversey says that Information Technology (IT) can and should function as a business unto itself, not as a support organization.

Ringing in the change- facets of Mobile Technology Adoption in Manufacturing

"Almost 35% of the worldwide workforce will be mobile by 2013. This will bring fresh opportunities with it to leverage mobile technologies that deliver better collaboration, workflow, productivity gains, improved quality and lowered cost in manufacturing."

Software Vendor's Evolution in the new Industry Paradigm

Continued consolidation in the ISV, rapid technological advances, intense competition, shrinking product lifecycles are changing the way software products are being developed and delivered.

The enterprise app store

Can an enterprise afford to ignore the demands of its employees? Which enterprises will need their own Enterprise App Stores (EAS) and how will these stores operate?Read more to find out.

HTML5 - An opportunity for innovation

The battle between PCs and mobile devices has tilted in favor of mobiles. It’s an irreversible trend. There is considerable curiosity around HTML5. Its ability to stitch together the fragmented mobile OS market holds an alluring promise.

Resetting the testing approach

Read about how mobile application testing is increasingly emerging as a critical function as the mobile usage revolution gets underway.

Managing the BYOD trend successfully

This paper focuses on the growing trend of Bring your Own Device (BYOD) and the challenges before enterprises in dealing with this trend.

Wireless Increases Shoppers' Happiness Index

This thought paper highlights the importance of a wireless strategy for retailers and the role of a partner who can support it from architecture to security to centralized managed services to end-user implementations

Social Media & Future of Business

This paper discusses the informational aspects of different social media platforms and relates these to their potential for influencing different types of business outcomes.

How can organizations provide their workforce with all the information they want, wherever they want it?

Read about the enterprise mobility wave and what organizations can do to embrace this disruption.

Mobility in Manufacturing: Optimizing Process and Productivity

This article from the Wipro Industry Outlook series focusses on the growing adoption of mobile devices and its impact on the manufacturing environment.

The Virtual Office: The Next-Generation Workplace

This article from the Wipro Industry Outlook series explains how enabling mobile access to corporate applications drives workforce productivity, while self-service capabilities and a cost-efficient architecture speed adoption.

Analytics driven experimentation and performance improvement

Leading companies are leveraging analytics to outperform their peers and succeed in a globalized market.

 

CIO series :Aircel

In this edition of the CIO series, Ravinder Jain, CIO, Aircel says that he has chalked up interesting gains in speed-to-market, especially with third-generation services and bite-sized Internet features.

Accountability in Health Care: Collaboration and Analytics Are Key

In this FOI series paper, Sangita Singh and Patricia Danzon explore the need for healthcare and life sciences companies to reinvent their business strategies to survive and grow.

Analytics Research-Making an impact with analytics

This joint research by CGT and Wipro Technologies takes a look at how analytics is used and where efforts to transform data are most successful.

The Fast Path to Big Data

This article from the Wipro industry outlook series highlights how big data template architectures can be leveraged to drive business outcomes.

Assessing the Bounties and Boundaries in Big Data Analytics

In this white paper, Fader and K.R Sanjiv, SVP and Global Head, AIM explore the opportunities and challenges ahead as businesses evolve in their use of data analytics.

Optimize the In-Store Experience

This paper reveals how retailers faced with razor-thin margins and multi-channel competition can develop ways to enhance the store experience to encourage purchases.

Big Gains Await Retailers, Consumer Goods Makers in a Digitally Savvy, Analytics-driven World

In this Future of Industry series white paper, Marshall L. Fisher and Srini Pallia explore the challenges and opportunities ahead.

The Strategic CFO and Supply Chain Planning

This paper discusses how CFOs need to be actively involved in supply chain initiatives and the role of analytics in driving this transformation.

Leveraging Device Generated Data for Business Growth

The world is waking up to data. It is recognizing that data is an asset. This paper highlights the need to create new business models to leverage this deluge of data for business growth

Why Life Sciences Companies Should Engage on Social Media?

Faced with a lack of clarity on regulations for social media, this paper highlights the need for Pharma companies to engage on social media.

Transparency in Physician Payments leads to business efficiency

This paper explores the impact of the federal Sunshine act on physician payments

Care Management and the Future of Health Care

Read about the current landscape of the healthcare environment, impact of new reforms and delivery methods, integrated care management processes and the technology used.

Driving Semiconductor Manufacturing Business Performance Through Analytics

This paper examines some of the analytical techniques, predictive models and control charts that can be leveraged by the semiconductor industry.

The New Mating Rituals of Consumer Goods Companies and the Buyers They Want to Attract

In this article from the Wipro Voice series, Vivek Venugopalan highlights the approaches that CG companies should take to attract buyers.

Health means more

This paper focusses on the new growth opportunities for healthcare and life sciences (HLS) organizations and how they are tackling complex business situations through analytics.

Wipro-RIS paper: Analytics-driven retailing

This joint paper by RIS and Wipro Technologies reveals how analytics driven retailing can yield better insights, decisions and results

Next Best Action : The one-to-one future

The ability to analyze and predict at a granular level what a customer may want at a particular point of time is a paradigm shift in marketing which can be accomplished by an analytics-driven approach. Read more in this paper

FOI - new business options for TMT in the digital age

In this white paper produced jointly by Knowledge@Wharton and Wipro, Ayan Mukerji and Kevin Werbach assess the upcoming changes in TMT and what it will take to address them successfully.

Prospects of M2M

We argue that the future of M2M is brightened by the advent of smart devices. This paper discusses the various telemetry based M2M models and their impact on the industry.

The state of Global Clinical Research Trials

This exclusive UBM TechWeb and Wipro research explores the key trends and challenges of conducting clinical trials in emerging markets.

Telematics

The automotive industry has come a long way since the invention of the steam-powered automobile. This paper discusses the emerging significance of telematics, the various challenges and the opportunities that galore for service providers.

Global Transformation in Energy & Utilities Through Strategic Use of Technology

This article from the Wipro Industry Outlook series focusses on the difficulties faced by the Energy and utility companies how a big picture business view and cutting-edge technology expertise helps.

The data is growing. Why aren't Insights?

In this paper, Srini Pallia highlights the importance of structuring your information strategy and the growing importance of predictive analytics.

Customers are ready for mobile commerce but are retailers ready?

This paper discusses the various upcoming trends in the retail landscape and what it takes for retailers to achieve accelerated growth and improve their business performance.

Overloaded With Data?

In this article from the Wipro Voice series, K R Sanjiv discusses how enterprises, awash with data, can make sense of all the information at their disposal.