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BearingPoint Institute Report Issue 002 - Extract Will your company pass the Sustainability Stress Tests?

Who will be the winners in the Mobile Payments battle?

Xavier Houot

Dr. Andreas Merbecks Christian Bruck

Faster, Higher, Stronger: Government Administrations can sprint too

Hypercube – Seeing Beyond the Big (data) Picture

Andrew Montgomery Paul Allen

Augustin Huret

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In Cloud We Trust?

Stefan Pechardscheck Christoph Schiefer

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BearingPoint Institute Report Issue 002 - Extract Leadership Team Jon Abele Eric Falque Markus Laqua Dr. Andreas Merbecks James Rodger Sergey Tkachenko

Advisory Board Denis Delmas, President of TNS Sofres, Vice-President Europe and Board member of TNS Group Dr. Jonathan Freeman, CPsychol AMRS Managing Director, i2 media research ltd. & Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology Goldsmiths, University of London Prof. Dr. Fons Trompenaars, Founder and owner, THT Consulting Dr. Victor Vroom, Professor of Management and Professor of Psychology, Yale School Management

Editorial Team Ludovic Leforestier Jean-Michel Huet Tanja Dietenberger Jennifer Bierce AngĂŠlique Tourneux

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Editorial Peter Mockler, Managing Partner – BearingPoint

Welcome to this second issue of the BearingPoint Institute Report. In these challenging economic times, a few certainties hold: that all relationships are based on trust – including in business; that the pace of change is not abating – quite the opposite in fact. We believe that the way businesses and administrations respond to those imperatives will further extend the gap between the best and worst performers.

This report explores the dynamics of trust and transformation across varied domains, with five papers each the result of a collaboration between consultants working for real customers “in the field”, academics and our global network partners – ABeam and West Monroe Partners.

Trust is of course a foundation stone for Corporate and Social Responsibility programmes and in particular for their sustainability disclosure part where it translates into transparency and disclosure efforts. This is just a start, change being the only certainty, it is safe to predict 2030 will be a very different place from today. Business leaders have told us why embedding sustainability into their corporate strategy is now an urgent imperative for them. Read on to understand how Sustainability Stress Tests can help businesses translate structural trends into a graphical representation of how prepared they are and shape their future course.

Public administrations also have to cope with increased transparency expectations and change imperatives. Picking up from our open government piece in the first BearingPoint Institute Report, we explore in this current issue how new agile principles can be applied to government

transformation and modernisation.

The agile government opinion piece advocates driving change in a series of “sprints” to deliver results before the end of a term.

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In the financial industry, nonconventional entrants play the innovation card with emerging mobile payments solutions at a time consumers’ confidence in banks is at its lowest. Our research indicates that the response from banks, internet players and telecommunication companies to consumer demands will determine which ecosystem will dominate this market.

With “as a service” technologies adoption gaining momentum at a very fast pace, we provide in this publication a practical framework to explore if and how business can safely entrust the cloud with their data and processes.

Big data is yet another area that epitomises transparency and change, yet answers often remain hidden in plain sight. We explore how advances in mathematical sciences combined with cloud computing and industry expertise can answer complex business phenomena. In many cases, insight lies beyond the big data and out of reach from traditional statistics: answers you can trust are rather extrapolated out of the detail the small-data.

Read on for more on those subjects.

We have also launched an iPad app, with the first issue of our BearingPoint Institute Report in full, plus some video interviews of its authors… and more is to come!

We’re keen to know what you think!

Email me your feedback at institute@bearingpoint.com

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Stefan Pechardscheck Stefan is a Partner within the IT Strategy and Transformation practice of BearingPoint Berlin

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Christoph Schiefer Christoph is a Senior Manager within the IT Strategy and Transformation practice of BearingPoint Berlin

In Cloud we trust?

Driving trusted cloud computing as a foundation for business

Cloud Computing, as an IT megatrend, already has a solid market share and its future prospects are promising.

While it offers many benefits, organisations still doubt whether the Cloud can be ‘trusted’. Aspects from service assurance and information security to broader questions of compliance and governance are under the spotlight, as enterprises remain unsure whether they should be putting faith in Cloud-based service delivery models.

In this paper we explore the factors that make up trusted Cloud Computing. Using the “Cloud Trust Pyramid” as a framework, we set out what organisations should be looking for in their partnerships with Cloud service providers, and how they can think about their own readiness for the Cloud journey.

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