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Lloyd’s Register Group, a global engineering, technical and business services organisation and maritime classification society, has signed a five-year £36 million contract with Capgemini to deliver IT infrastructure and application services. The contract is built on an existing relationship between the two organisations dating back to 2001. For more details, read the full article. Click here to view the article

Capgemini is one of the world’s leading providers of consulting, technology, and outsourcing services, employing more than 130,000 people across 40 countries. Capgemini is committed to corporate responsibility, sustainability and diversity for a number of reasons: hiring and retaining the best people, developing the community, and increasing the diversity of thinking in order to enhance innovation. The USA is Capgemini’s second biggest market, accounting for more than $2 billion in revenue in 2013. Capgemini's US Application Services CEO, Tim Bridges, sees Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability as central component of Capgemini's growth strategy. Although, ironically, it doesn't appear to be because he believes in Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability himself, but because he believes that millennials do. Forbes quotes Bridges as saying, “[being a] workplace of choice is [about] attracting the best talent, and to the millennials of today, that’s important. They make their selection of who they want to work for based upon whether the company has a social conscience and social responsibility profile.” For more details, read the full article. Click here to view the article

Hi everyone, I thought this would be of interest to those with a technological bent and based in Oz. Capgemini Australia has appointed a new top dog, Deepak Nangia, who has made a few big changes during his first month in office including making senior appointments and sharpening Capgemini's focus on its top 10 clients. He has also created a new chief technology office to help clients exploit upcoming tech trends. I think focusing on key clients and on exploiting tech trends are interesting strategies and most likely good ones. They follow the 80/20 rule, that is, the idea that 80% of your returns come from just 20% of your efforts. The implication being that you should figure out which activities produce most of the value, and focus mostly on those activities.

Capgemini Consulting, a global strategy and transformation consultancy, has been recognised by Source for its consistently high quality of thought leadership. Capgemini has been ranked in the top 5 best consultancies in the world for thought leadership in the second half of 2013; a rise of 10 places from the second half of 2012. Source ranked Capgemini Consulting’s digital transformation study ‘Digital Transformation: A road-map for billion-dollar organizations’ in the top 5 thought leadership publications of the last decade. Fore more details, read the full article.

Capgemini, the management consulting and technology firm, is increasing its capacity to deliver business out of India. On Wednesday, it expanded its facility in Talwade (near Pune) bringing its total investment in the facility up to around Rs 3 billion. Over the last 5 years, Capgemini has increased staff numbers in India by over 40,000. There are a two implications of Capgemini's move. Firstly, the firm has said it plans to target growth in the Asia-Pacific and Latin America. Since the expansion of man-power is in India, it will be interesting to see what share of the value will be provided in the local markets and how much can be provided in India. It is common practice for firms like McKinsey, BCG and Bain to outsource the production of powerpoint slides to India, while sending well dressed and well spoken management consultants to meet with clients on the ground in local markets. With the recent rise of websites like Expert 360, and with the increasing quality and capabilities of Indian workers, it is an open question whether well dressed (and expensive) consultants will continue to be needed in coming years. Secondly, the large investment in capacity helps Capgemini build a barrier to entry in the market for management and IT services. It will presumably give Capgemini a cost advantage and so the ability to undercut new entrants on price. It also raises the amount of capital required by new entrants to compete in this space. For more details, read the full article.

Capgemini is planning a new global service line called ‘Digital Customer Experience’ (DCX). This will consolidate Capgemini's existing digital resources and capabilities with the aim of enabling companies to deliver a seamless multi-channel digital experience to their customers. Simon Short, Head of the Digital Customer Experience Global Service Line at Capgemini, stated that DCX will enable companies to create a “meaningful experience for their customers”. For more details, read the full article.