PARIS, Sept. 12, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Capgemini today launched Capgemini Invent, a new global business line1 that will focus on helping
business leaders plot a path to the future and provide the right vehicle for getting there. Capgemini Invent combines, under one brand, the multi-disciplinary strengths of Capgemini Consulting and key
expertise in technology and data science from the rest of the Group, with recent acquisitions of customer engagement firm
LiquidHub, innovation consultancy Fahrenheit 212, and its three creative design agencies Idean, Adaptive Lab and Backelite.
The global business line comprises a 6,000+ strong team located in over 30 offices and 10 creative studios around the world.
Capgemini Invent's specialist capabilities provide clients with the ability to operate at the speed of digital; to ideate and
design digital transformation strategy, tangible digital solution prototypes and transformation plans, while assessing the path
for scaling and monitoring them by leveraging the full expertise of the Group. Capgemini Invent helps its clients to stay
relevant and be ahead of the competition.
"We have built Capgemini Invent to meet increasing client demand for our advanced digital services," comments
Paul Hermelin, Chairman and CEO, Capgemini Group. "This integrated global business line
combines perfectly our specialist capabilities and expertise that are needed to design, create and trial new digital solutions
and business models of the future, all supported by the recognized strengths of the Group to implement them at speed and
scale."
The introduction of Capgemini Invent is in response to a critical need for businesses to answer the complex question of
"what's next?" when it comes to their digital transformation strategy. Whether it's CEOs assessing the viability of adjacent
markets or CMOs looking at new ways to engage customers, Capgemini Invent aims to provide clients with solutions to business
problems, accelerating the development of ideas into prototypes and then progressing prototypes into scalable products and
services by leveraging the rest of the Group, in order to drive new revenue streams, new ways to engage with customers and
sustainable growth.
"For businesses today, determining what's next is a question that's getting harder to answer and even harder to
realize. Leading companies must be open to invention – a radical rethinking and redesign of their core business models –
to find new sources of value and ensure survival," said Cyril Garcia, CEO Capgemini Invent.
"Capgemini Invent offers a new model for digital transformation delivery, bringing key sector expertise together with a broad
cross-section of disciplines, from strategy and technology to data science and creative design. It also engages with its growing
innovation eco-system of partners and start-ups to benefit digital projects. Working in close collaboration with our clients,
Capgemini Invent applies a spirit of innovation to bring to life 'what's next'; orchestrating meaningful change across every
facet of their business in an agile way to drive continuous growth."
Capgemini Invent encapsulates the new ways that the Group is working with clients worldwide. Today, it is not only advising
clients on digital innovation and transformation, but is also designing, building, operating and transferring expertise to help
them reinvent their core businesses, along with inventing and implementing truly new processes, products and services. One
example in the data space is the Group's recent work with Airbus on the 'skywise' digital aviation data platform, which will be
the single platform of reference used by all major aviation players in Airbus' ecosystem to improve operational performance and
business results.
Stephane Bronoff, Connectivity Enterprise Architect at Airbus said, "Throughout our journey to design and implement our
innovative global skywise.connect platform, Capgemini has been a trusted partner, providing robust telecom expertise to shape our
connectivity vision and supporting us in the operational phases of minimum viable product (MVP) and implementation leading to the
commercial entry in service."
Capgemini Invent combines key digital capabilities with deep sector expertise to help organizations to prototype, test and
scale new products, services and business models, quickly and effectively. To do this, the new global business line comprises six
integrated practices:
- Innovation and Strategy to help envision change across organizations, helping to imagine, design and build the
products, services, and business models of the future.
- Customer Engagement to help businesses deliver value at every interaction, transforming the relationships they have
with customers to drive business transformation.
- Future of Technology to help businesses capture the possibilities of emerging technology by creating tailored
solutions for every type of business and sector.
- Insight Driven Enterprise to utilize advanced data analytics, AI and automation technologies to drive financial
excellence and enable strategic and real-time business decision-making.
- Operations Transformation to help create smarter businesses by reinventing their supply chain, asset management and
operational processes, to ultimately increase productivity and reduce time to market.
- People and Organization to help businesses master transformation, and prepare for the future of work, by developing
the culture, workforce and skills they need for holistic business success in the digital age.
Organizations struggle to make progress with their digital transformation investments
The launch of Capgemini Invent comes at a critical time for businesses, many of whom feel they do not have the digital
and leadership capabilities needed to make their digital transformation journey a success. This, according to the Capgemini
Research Institute, which recently released the results of a report entitled "Understanding Digital Mastery Today: Why companies are struggling with their digital
transformations." The report showed that despite huge investments in digital transformation initiatives, set to exceed
$2 trillion by 20212, organizations today feel less equipped with the right leadership
capabilities than they were six years ago (45 percent in 2012 compared to 35 percent in 2018), while less than half still feel
they have the right digital capabilities to advance their transformations (39 percent in both 2012 and 2018.)
For more information on Capgemini Invent, visit www.capgemini.com/invent.
About Capgemini
A global leader in consulting, technology services and digital transformation, Capgemini is at the forefront of
innovation to address the entire breadth of clients' opportunities in the evolving world of cloud, digital and platforms.
Building on its strong 50-year heritage and deep industry-specific expertise, Capgemini enables organizations to realize their
business ambitions through an array of services from strategy to operations. Capgemini is driven by the conviction that the
business value of technology comes from and through people. It is a multicultural company of 200,000 team members in over
40 countries. The Group reported 2017 global revenues of EUR 12.8 billion.
Visit us at www.capgemini.com. People matter, results count.
1 Capgemini's Global Business Lines (GBLs) manage key offerings; taking care of pre-sales, solutioning, client
focused delivery, and developing talents and expertise in key domains for the Group including high-growth and emerging
markets.
2 IDC, "IDC Forecasts Worldwide Spending on Digital Transformation Technologies to Reach $1.3 Trillion in 2018", December 2017
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