Imagine this situation. A concrete-producing truck, equipped with GPS tracking is on its way to a site to make a delivery. The delivery window is, say, 2 p.m. and the GPS tracking pinpoints the current location at 11 30 a.m. Now, there is information from the site that there is a delay and that the supply is needed only after two days. Here is where the distinction between location tracking and operational intelligence matters. The latter will confirm if the truck can be re-routed to another site for its requirement, thus saving transportation cost.

It is no secret that globally, cement and concrete manufacture is responsible for about 7% of CO₂ emissions. Six years ago, the member organisations of the Global Cement and Concrete Association (GCCA) joined hands to commit themselves to bringing in carbon-neutral concrete by 2050, and to accelerate CO2 reductions. According to the Association, the roadmap actions that it has set out should prevent close to 5 bn tonnes of CO2 emissions will from entering the atmosphere by 2030.

Quick question: when was the last time you fully trusted a number in a report without quietly wondering if it was right?

A role that feels new - but isn't

Open LinkedIn and browse for just five minutes — and you will meet the Forward Deployed Engineer. Training institutes advertise FDE bootcamps. Services firms announce FDE academies. Enterprises quietly reclassify senior developers under the new banner. Postings for "Forward Deployed Engineer" and its variants have grown by an increasing order of magnitude year on year.

Intellectual property law was not designed to protect ideas. It was designed to make investing in ideas worth the risk. The entire edifice of modern IP law rests on a single economic premise: that innovation is expensive and imitation is cheap, and therefore innovators need temporary monopoly rights to recoup their investment. This was a defensible premise in a world of pharmaceutical R&D, semiconductor fabrication, and Hollywood film production — industries where the upfront cost of creation is enormous and the marginal cost of copying is near-zero.

For nearly two decades, the industry has treated Managed Services as a horizontal commodity - a race to the bottom on IT cost. At Mastek, we believe the future of AI-powered Managed Services lies not in managing IT incidents, but in managing industry outcomes. We are re-architecting the traditional service model from ticket-centric operations to AI-powered industry value streams, deploying verticalized AI solutions that understand the specific regulatory, operational, and causal nuances of our clients' industries.

Manufacturers have spent years connecting plants, modernizing ERP environments, deploying sensors, and building analytics capabilities as part of their smart manufacturing journey. Yet many organizations still struggle with a more fundamental problem: getting the right operational data into one usable, trusted view.

As healthcare moves to AI-native environments. GenAI generates clinical narratives backed by synthesized information and context. AI-enabled ambient documentation and clinical copilots can augment intelligent decision-making in clinical productivity, revenue cycle management, patient engagement, research and more.