For someone who is deaf, communicating with a clerk at a retail store or non-ASL-speaking friend over dinner often involves laboriously writing notes. An app called Jeenie offers an alternative: Push a button, and a live ASL interpreter appears in…
To date, travel innovation, such as ride hailing, has contributed to rather than alleviated these challenges. Ride hailing was responsible for two-thirds of the increase in traffic congestion in San Francisco from 2010 to 2016, according to an academic study.…
Mobility is complex and most HR professionals don’t always understand what mobility professionals do. Mobility is often guilty of not proactively looking for interaction with others and, as a result, positioning itself in a purely administrative manner. Read more in…
There are already 1.2 billion A/C units pumping cool air into people’s homes, and that number is on track to reach 4.5 billion by 2050; energy demand is expected to triple in the same amount of time. It’s a vicious…
What’s the best place to work? Twenty-five years ago, it might have been a shiny office with a fully stocked canteen for an always-on and always-in-the-office workforce. Cut to today, and the digital era has made mobility a quality today’s…
The smartphone though has become an extension of ourselves. It goes pretty much wherever we do. There are probably three things most of us leave the house with every day – keys, wallet or purse and our phone. And, thanks…
Modern mobility proponents seek perpetual motion, too, using both established forms of transit and new ones: ride sharing, free-floating bikes and scooters, and more Read moe in BCG Seeking Perpetual Motion with Mobility as a Service By Joël Hazan ,…
A few decades ago, AI was the stuff of science fiction novels, movies, and television shows. A fantasy. A figment of an overactive imagination. Isaac Asimov. Star Trek. The Terminator.But now? AI is already here or has been for quite…
Some 1.7 billion people around the world lack access to basic financial services such as a bank or mobile money account. Digital financial services have the potential to bring this population, concentrated in developing countries, into the financial system—giving them…
After years of phone sales stagnating, manufacturers are starting to experiment with new design elements, user experiences, and even new phone shapes. This experimentation got underway at the end of 2018 and is about to bloom in full force on…
