The sharing economy is powered by declining transaction costs. Smartphones, internet connectivity, and the cloud allow consumers to efficiently search for their desired goods and services, understand the terms, ensure timely logistics, and enforce the agreed-upon contract. Read more in…
Customer journey just a couple of years ago would have taken days, weeks, or even months, now happens in a few seconds. All the steps of the consumer journey have effectively collapsed into one moment. Read more in zeusjones The…
Many of the more than 100,000 robots across Amazon’s fulfillment centers are designed to accommodate some interaction with people. Sensor-enabled path planning and obstacle avoidance are front-line defenses against robot-involved accidents. Read more in ZDnet 2019 is the year robotics…
One major risk in the coming year is the sharp drop-off in world trade growth, which fell from over 5% at the beginning of 2018 to nearly zero at the end. With anticipated escalation in trade conflicts, a contraction in…
These days, though, many CEOs worry that confidence is waning. PwC’s 21st Global CEO Survey found that most CEOs (65 percent globally) are concerned about declining trust in business, even though only 18 percent think it’s a problem for their…
Employees hate open offices. They’re distracting. They’re loud. There’s often little privacy.According to commercial real estate association CoreNet Global, the average space allotted to individual employees globally fell from 225 square feet in 2010 to 176 square feet in 2013,…
In the area of transportation, it’s clear consumers are paying attention to coverage of (some might say “hype around”) EVs, air taxis, and hyperloops. More than half of respondents expect to be using an autonomous vehicle (63 percent), a driverless…
Have you ever considered moving permanently to a new country? If the answer is yes, you’re far from alone. A new poll reveals that 15% of the global population – over 750 million people – would migrate if they could.…
For the past seven decades, the world has been moulded by a strong, transatlantic relationship with the US and EU underwriting the terms of peace, stability and economic prosperity.Proliferating transnational relationships and new flows of finance, trade, technology, information, energy…
Do you know where do you fall in the IoT adoption curve? Well, it doesn’t matter as long as you are learning about different technologies complimenting IoT and its integration into existing systems. The following post emphasizes Artificial Intelligence and…
