Working at the leading edge of technology and innovation can bring great rewards and commercial advantages to the organization that manages these situations carefully.
A combination of a new technological innovation, combined with a system integrator's expert delivery organization, gives significant potential to exploit established and new technologies. But it can also bring unwanted risk.
Partner and Risk Management
To ensure that risk is reduced, while exploiting the advantages of technology:
- We have introduced a rigorous process for assessing each potential alliance program partner
- We have a risk assessment and management process which is controlled by our corporate global consulting and systems integration team
- We have approved polices and procedures in place to ensure that we work with organizations in a manner that is consistent with our company values and the way that the whole of the Atos Origin Group does business
We are confident that when we work with an alliance partner that is operating close to the innovation frontier that we can manage the situation in the best interests of our clients.
We continually scan the market to identify new potential partners and innovative technologies as a part of our portfolio of emerging solutions.
There is a close link between our Customer Technology Strategy and our interest in new and innovative products that may form a part of our portfolio of alliances going forward. This analysis is derived from our annual on-going review of the technology market and the needs of our clients world-wide.
In addition, we seek other agile players operating in the second, Emerging Solutions, area to work alongside and within the existing partner ecosystem with both:
- Major accounts and
- Global offerings
On the lookout for new technologies and ideas
The importance of this process is that our technical and industry focused experts are continually looking for new technologies and ideas that can be integrated into our solutions in order to:
- Add competitive advantage to the offerings we bring to our clients business
- Identify emerging technologies early, and integrate them into our product lifecycle management process
- Assist new and incubator businesses to thrive in conjunction with our industry solutions and the established technology sets associated with the Worlds Leading Technology Companies
In this way we are able to offer continually to our clients, the most appropriate, effective and risk managed portfolio of solutions to assist them to develop their business and market position.
Our analysis, which also draws upon the views of the market; analysts and external technology experts is updated twice a year and provides a strategic view of change within the technology market.