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Commodity Management & Trading

Transforming trading ecosystems through data-driven insights and secure, agile platforms that empower global commerce.

Customer & Marketing Strategy

Reimagining customer engagement with personalized, connected experiences that build trust and long-term value.

Digital Engineering

Turning ideas into scalable digital solutions—accelerating transformation through design, technology, and engineering excellence.

Station Studio

Redefining mobility hubs with digital innovation to create smarter, sustainable experiences for people and businesses on the move.

Supply Chain & Industry 5.0

Building resilient, intelligent supply networks that anticipate change and deliver efficiency with purpose.

Sustainability

Driving responsible innovation to help organizations achieve net-zero goals and create a positive impact for future generations.

Physical AI

Physical AI gives machines, robots and physical operations the ability to perceive their environment, decide what matters and act in real time. Factories, plants, stores and infrastructure become systems able to sense conditions, learn from them and improve on their own, closing the gap between the physical and the digital world.

Next-Gen Infrastructure

From networks as infrastructure to connected platforms that enable critical, autonomous and intelligent operations.

43% more invoices per person in an automated Procure-to-Pay cycle

Purchasing teams spent hours on each invoice, and the cycle had gaps in control. NTT DATA reviewed operations, tools and the organizational model, then built a roadmap with four automation scenarios. Each person in the process now handles 43% more invoices, and the process runs with 34% fewer full-time employees.

43% more invoices per person in an automated Procure-to-Pay cycle

43 initiatives and an estimated 570 million pesos for a department store’s financial services

For a Mexican department store retailer, financial services were a side offering with room to grow. NTT DATA analyzed products, processes, operations and systems and designed a digital transformation plan with 43 initiatives. The plan carries an estimated impact of about 570 million Mexican pesos on EBITDA.

43 initiatives and an estimated 570 million pesos for a department store’s financial services

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Expanded distribution infrastructure serving homes, businesses and public buildings, illustrating the connection between utility capital investment and customer affordability.

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Utilities

Affordability is becoming a financing covenant for Utility investment

9 Oct 2026

Affordability, investment and regulatory recovery

Capital need now has to survive the customer bill test

Across New York, Maine and Connecticut, utilities face rising investment needs alongside tighter scrutiny of customer bill impacts. The source shows three different regulatory mechanisms: New York retained a large capital program while reducing the first-year revenue path; Maine closed a five-year proposal when planning and evidentiary support were insufficient; and Connecticut changed revenue and return treatment through reconsideration. The executive issue is whether system need, cost, bill impact, performance and regulatory proof remain connected as assumptions change.

At a glance

Across three states, investment recovery depends on a reviewable chain from system need through customer impact and regulatory proof.

Capital need and revenue recovery are separate decisions

$11.7 billion of electric capital investment remained in New York’s plan while first-year delivery revenues were cut by more than $1.37 billion.

Planning coherence determines whether need can be reviewed

Maine closed a five-year proposal over investment pace, ratepayer impact, missing integrated planning and insufficient evidentiary support.

Regulatory economics can change as the record evolves

Connecticut increased authorized revenue by about $2 million on reconsideration and removed previously issued return-on-equity penalties.

Affordability is becoming a measurable constraint

New York targets household energy burden at 6% or less for eligible customers and expanded income-based bill relief in 2025.

What leaders should do

Require each material investment to connect system need, cost, bill impact, performance and regulatory evidence before the filing baseline is locked.

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