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As retail businesses are closing down their storefronts on the high street, they are focusing more and more on online sales. With this change, comes an influx of useful data to retailers that must be stored and made good use…

By 2030, robots, artificial intelligence, automatons, call them what you like, will have displaced up to 800 million workers or one fifth of the global workforce. How about in 2032, or 2042, and beyond? What tools should we be arming today’s…

With modern healthcare and improvements in sanitation, people are living longer. Meanwhile, broader access to reliable birth control means many people are having fewer children. This is leading to a higher proportion of people in older age groups. Read more…

Because we’re living longer, our focus is starting to shift toward well-being. This transformation is happening slowly. Like most forms of progress, the change is so gradual that it’s hard to perceive. It’s a matter of decades, not years—and I…

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,…