How Machine Learning is Changing Business Communication
Machine learning is not a sci-fi concept anymore. Over the past few years, it has improved business operations in multiple ways. One of the areas that benefit from ML technologies the most is business communications. So, how does machine learning impact your internal and external communications? Let’s find out!
The Three Factors That Drive Consumer Behavior
As the adage goes, the only constant is change, and such is the case with consumer behavior. Thus, tracking trends, using business analytics to predict where the next trend may be, and acting accordingly with your marketing is a recipe for success.
Frugal Banking: An Opportunity to Create Customer Value in the Future?
Investments that are necessary to innovate and serve customers are no longer sustainable while COVID-19 hastens the need to exploit the potential of digital innovations. Serving customers accurately during unprecedented times requires a new mindset and business model innovations. If banks respond to customer requirements in completely new special situations, they can gain trust and integrity and become winners of the crisis.
10 Ways Medical Innovation will Transform Our Lives Over the Next Decade
Emerging technologies look set to transform the healthcare industry. In this year's Global Innovation Index, Francis Collins, Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), explores some of the innovations that could have the biggest impact in the next decade. Here's a summary of those findings from the report.
How Is Digital Innovation Changing Marketing?
In 2013, Adobe conducted a comprehensive research study and found that 76% of marketers believe that marketing changed more in the past 2 years than in the previous 50. Digital technologies were changing rapidly, impacting how marketers build their strategies and market to their audiences. Today, fast digital innovation has been replaced with the strategic implementation of new technologies in marketing.
How AI will Help us to Diagnose Disease Faster and More Accurately
Chinese internet-based technology and cultural enterprise Tencent is using AI innovations in medical imaging and data mining to provide better, faster, more comprehensive diagnoses. In this extract from the GLOBAL INNOVATION INDEX 2019, Tencent’s Founder and Chief Executive Ma Huateng looks at the revolutionary impact of AI and big data in China’s healthcare service.
Four Ways Data is Improving Healthcare
Harnessing medical data can, and will, improve healthcare, writes GE Healthcare President and CEO Kieran Murphy in the GLOBAL INNOVATION INDEX 2019. This article is part of a series about the power of innovation to solve social and economic challenges. Stories and statistics are drawn from the World Intellectual Property Organization’s Global Innovation Index 2019.
May the 4th Industrial Revolution be with You, Part 5: ‘Money’s too Tight to Mention’
This article is the fifth in a series which takes an in-depth look at how the changes brought about by the advent of the 4th Industrial Revolution are playing out on the world stage and how these changes are literally revolutionising the way things are done both at home and in the workplace.
Social Media Pictures Led Stalker to His Victim’s Home: How to Avoid Risk Online
Expert Provides Tips on How to Protect Yourself and Your Photos Online
Vision for 2020: 5 Innovative Marketing Strategies to Try Out in the New Year
With each new year, marketers think about the success and failures of the current year, as well as what they're going to do better during the next.
How Does the Sharing Economy Motivate Technology Startups?
Technology startups can get motivated by offering solutions to the sharing economy companies and utilising the services offered by them.
The 3 C’s: Complex Problem Solving, Creativity and Critical Thinking – Core Soft Skills Required in the Workplace of the 4th Industrial Revolution
The next in our series on the 4th Industrial Revolution, from the Business Optimization Training Institute (BOTI). Start with Part I here.
6 Future-focused Ways Technology Will Affect Customer Service
For as long as businesses have existed, so has customer service. With each advance in technology, it appears the way organisations deliver customer service has evolved. Similarly, customers themselves have grown to expect faster responses, at almost all times of day.
Protecting Your Company From Cyber Attacks
If you're running a business that exists digitally small or large, you do need to understand cyber threats, also known as cyber attacks.
How Image Recognition Is Transforming the Automobile Industry
Image recognition will make our cars safer, more efficient and reliable. Learn how image recognition technology is improving.
7 Modern Trends That Are Innovating Traditional Workplaces
The workplace of today little resembles the cubicles of yesteryear. More people telecommute and enjoy flextime options. Rather than a traditional top-down structure, many companies embrace a more democratic arrangement.
Innovative Ideas for Boosting Your Site & Brand
Business owners can boost the visibility of their digital assets by taking advantage of a few helpful practices.
How Data is Changing the Internet of Things
More than half of the world's data has been created in the past two years. As digital connection and creation - the Internet of Things - becomes ever more prevalent, we have to consider how data can better be interpreted, personalized, and improved. In this podcast, we explore IoT, and how it can impact your business.
Smart Business Uses for Your Smartphone
For small business owners, every day is a mission to sell products without surpassing the budget. Unfortunately, the expenses can add up. From obtaining vendors to shipping out the product and paying your employees, there is an expense at nearly every corner. However, what if there was a way to save money and streamline your processes right from the palm of your hand?
May the 4th Industrial Revolution be with You, Part 4: ‘High on Emotion’
Emotional Intelligence is the new X Factor: This is the fourth in a series of articles that explore how the effects of the 4th Industrial Revolution are filtering into our lives on a global scale, what the workplace of the future will look like in the years to come and how we can ensure that we have the right skills to succeed. This article explores the concept of Emotional Intelligence as the new X Factor in securing success in the new era of the 4th Industrial Revolution.
What NASA Can Teach Us About the Intrinsic Value of Connecting to Other Innovators
Numerous organizations run crowdsourced innovation programs, because companies can find better new ideas and take action on those ideas faster. This process allows companies to set a challenge and gather ideas from hundreds, thousands, or hundreds of thousands of participants.
A New Way to Collaborate: How Co-working Spaces Are Changing the Landscape for Remote Workers
If you’ve been looking to boost career satisfaction among your remote team members, co-working spaces may prove up to the task. Today, busy remote professionals around the world increasingly benefit from a changing office environment with the rapid proliferation of co-working spaces.
So You Think You Know Your Competitors? Think Again.
A brand-new car sold by a vending machine and a robot that brings in the laundry - in this article, we'll explore how to prepare for new competitors entering the market.
4 Ways Tech Is Innovating Ongoing Education for Businesses
Today's forward-thinking companies know that giving their employees access to ongoing education opportunities is an excellent way to prepare them to deal with changing circumstances in their industries.
How Going Green Can Help Your Profits and the Environment
The scientific consensus on anthropogenic climate change only grows stronger. The most recent word from scientists is that the present warming of the globe is "unprecedented" in the last 2,000 years. Some 99% of scientists stood in agreement on this in 2011, and now the scientific community has declared there's "no doubt left" that human activity is warming the earth.
Renewable Energy: A Growing Industry Welcoming Big Business and Startups Alike
With the rise in global warming and climate change as a product of burning fossil fuels to power a civilization on the cusp of a technological revolution, governments and their citizens are demanding a change.
May the 4th Industrial Revolution be with You, Part 3: ‘Domo Arigato, Mr Roboto…’
This is the third in a series of articles that explore the impact of the 4th Industrial Revolution on how we are living our lives today and what we can do to ready ourselves for the workplace of the future.
How Technology is Changing the Promotional Landscape
Technology continues to evolve at a steady pace. It's no secret that modern technology has, in many ways, shaped how businesses and companies promote themselves, as well as their products or services to their target audience.