E About Benjamin Pring
Ben Pring co-leads Cognizant's Future of Work Center and came to Cognizant in September 2011 after spending the previous 15 years with Gartner as a senior industry analyst researching and advising on areas such as Cloud Computing and Global Sourcing. Prior to Gartner, Ben worked for a number of consulting companies including Coopers and Lybrand.
At Gartner, Ben was one the of the lead analysts on all things Cloud; he wrote the industry's first research notes on Cloud Computing (in 1997!), on Salesforce.com (in 2001) and became well known in the IT industry for providing predictions of the nature and velocity of the change that would impact everyone as the paradigm shifted again and Cloud Computing become the foundation for the next wave of competition in global IT. Ben was also heavily involved in tracking and analyzing the emergence of IT talent from outside western markets and the impact that globalization would have on business and IT strategies for organizations of all types.
Ben's expertise in helping clients see around corners, think the unthinkable and calculate the compound annual growth rate of unintended consequences has brought him to Cognizant where his charter is to research and analyze how clients can leverage the incredibly powerful new opportunities that are being created as new technologies make computing power more pervasive, more affordable and more important than ever before.
Now based near Boston, MA, Ben graduated with a degree in Philosophy from Manchester University in the UK where he grew up.
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As the techlash continues to gather momentum, I wanted to share a perspective that seems to be being overlooked. It’s not...
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Traffic congestion marked by thick red lines on a Google Map. A browser that remembers your credit card code. Tracking down a...
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There’s a lot of talk in the market these days about the need to keep “the human in the loop”. Analysts, journalists,...
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AI and automation are forever altering the workplace, but work isn’t going away anytime soon. Our recent webinar explored...
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At last year’s annual gathering of the World Economic Forum in Davos, there was a palpable sense of shock and disbelief...
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As 2017 comes to an end, fear of the bot remains strong. In a year that’s seen an explosion of interest in all things AI,...
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Picture these scenes; A 45 year old man in a call center, at 9:17pm on a Wednesday evening, sitting at his phone waiting for...
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21 Jobs of the Future: A Guide to Getting – and Staying – Employed Over the Next 10 Years Concern about a “jobless...
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Work is changing due to automation and AI, but it’s not going away. Based on the major macroeconomic, political, demographic,...
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21 Jobs of the Future: A Guide to Getting – and Staying – Employed Over the Next 10 Years Concern about a “jobless...
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We made a conscious decision in writing What to Do When Machines Do Everything that we would focus on AI’s role in wealth...
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Quite rightly, we stand back in amazement at the progress artificial intelligence is making day by day. This week news broke...
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Here’s a curious thing. Anyone who’s at all interested in the leading edge of business and technology knows that...
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In the six months since the publication of What to Do When Machines Do Everything I, and my fellow authors, have been to all...
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With the recent deaths of Chuck Berry and Robert Pirsig, and the growing reality of self-driving cars, there is a sense that...
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We are in the midst of an under-reported work crisis. Not an employment crisis – unemployment levels in the G7 are at historic...
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Regular readers will know that we here at the Center for the Future of Work like to brand ourselves as “thinkers of the...
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According to Forrester Research, the global technology industry is worth just shy of $3 trillion. Some estimates suggest that...
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In writing What to Do When Machines Do Everything we met with lots of different people on the forefront of developing and deploying...
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Central to the election of President Trump, the populist support of Brexit, and the distrust of so many institutions at the heart...
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A lot of people are talking a lot about AI at the moment (including yours truly http://amzn.to/2oyH3c7) but nobody’s stopped...
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As the great Danish physicist, Niels Bohr, put it, “Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future”....
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Look into the future. Stare at it. Let your mind wander. Tell me, what do you see? Do you see possibility, opportunity, a blank...
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Given the trajectory artificial intelligence is on, machines will soon do everything that people do today. In a world of increasingly...
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We look at the insurance industry. Our research shows that insurers are highly aware of the need to rethink their processes,...
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What To Do When Machines Do Everything Discussing the ways digital machines and artificial intelligence (AI) will change our...
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For those of us in the futurology business the concept of disruption has long been a central organizing principle of how we look...
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The second hottest topic of conversation in World Economic Forum (WEF) conference rooms and Davos restaurants this week: What...
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As we approach this year’s annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, a new economy – a digital economy –...
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2017 is set to be a big year for the digitally transforming. To check you’re on course, take this quick and dirty self-diagnostic,...
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So, as turkeys across America are read their last rites, it’s that time of the year when we take stock of what’s...
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"The great benefit of computer sequencers is that they remove the issue of skill, and replace it with the issue of judgment."...
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With new machines and new business models based on information, the rules of the game are being rewritten. In this, the first...
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With new machines and new business models based on information, the rules of the game are being rewritten. In this, the first...
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A few years ago, I had the good fortune to have dinner at the Goldeneye Hotel in Jamaica. With a name like that, you won’t...
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“Why did music hall die out? Because it was sh-te”. Alexei Sayle The nostalgics who are clogging up your group, department,...
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The $26bn acquisition of Linked-In by Microsoft last week is a bit of a digital Rorschach test. To some folks I’ve talked...
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One of the most frequent questions I get on my travels is “what should my kids study and/or do early in their career to...
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Amazon’s unanticipated success with Echo – try getting hold of one at the moment! – has begun an interesting...
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As a minor representative of the Earth bound, life based form, commonly known as a “human being,” I think a lot –...
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As someone who’s worked remotely for the last 17 years at companies leveraging “flat world” principles http://amzn.to/1j6j1yN...
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The music industry has been the canary in the coal mine of digital disruption over the last 25 years. From the launch of the...
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“Computers are useless; they can only give you answers”. Pablo Picasso For anyone paying attention – as I know,...
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Here’s a question for you; what do the following quotes from the news this week have in common? “In 2014, for the...
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2015 has been an incredible year for “Digital” as the pace of adoption and transformation has accelerated. 2016 is...
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With due acknowledgment of the shoulders I’m standing on – Marcel Proust and Graydon Carter take a bow – I...
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Two vignettes that illustrate how fast the world is changing ... --------------------------- SCENE ONE A corporate meeting room....
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Two recent pieces of data to consider; firstly, a report on the future of the IT Services market by UBS http://bit.ly/1XtmIxi...
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If the future of work is about creativity, imagination, thinking differently, then it stands to reason that creating the environment,...
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If software is eating the world – and who am I to disagree with @pmarca? – then it stands to reason that your business...
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We live in an age of miracles. It is a miracle that; I can watch West Ham United play live while I’m on a plane flying...
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While we wait for the Apple Car, here’s another idea for Tim and Jonny to noodle on (you’re welcome fellas); perhaps...
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On my travels talking to executives about the world of digital and Code Halos I’ve noticed an interesting disconnect. On...
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Amidst all of the existential questioning of the modern world that pervades the media (and our dinner parties) at the moment,...
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The most impactful book that I’ve read about business recently is one that’s got nothing to do with business. The...
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As the co-director of Cognizant’s Center for the Future of Work and the parent of two teenage children thinking about the...
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I’ve been thinking a lot about two statistics I’ve heard recently, one from a colleague, the other from a client;...
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Wandering the electronics aisles of my local big box retailer the other day (no names, but you can probably guess who) as Cost...
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As the digital revolution has gathered momentum, it has become widely understood that the “digital customer experience”...
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For Christmas Santa Claus brought me an iRobot Roomba 650 vacuum cleaner. It’s fabulous. I’m really not sure I’ve...
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Over Christmas I was back in England enjoying the holiday season with family and friends. In the very pretty village of Winchelsea,...
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Every day brings new evidence that we’re seemingly doomed to lose the race against the machine; now even the quants have...
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If you’re old enough to remember, the phrase “Y2K” either brings back nightmarish memories or a yawn. My old...
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