I quote one of the last Peter Diamandis' newsletters… as it sets up the right mindset (in my opinion) to "front facing" the future.We’re living in a period of rapid change, and over the next 5 years, we’re going to see significant disruptive advancements that will reshape the world as we know it. So many people fear [...]
The Innovation Group presents our snapshot of the year ahead and the most compelling trends to keep on the radar: The Future 100: Trends and Change to Watch in 2018 The Future 100: 2018 - JWT IntelligenceToday, trends scale rapidly through technological change and digital networks. New models of commerce are causing disruption, while technology like augmented reality [...]
Why the World Is Better Than Ever—and Will Get Better StillIn the last hundred years, we’ve seen the average human life expectancy nearly double, the global GDP per capita rise exponentially, and childhood mortality drop 10-fold.…“In the hands of smart and driven innovators, science and technology take things which were once scarce and make them abundant and accessible to [...]
Robo-Advisors Aren't A Difficult Tech Problem And Are Already On Their Way To Being CommoditizedRobin: Well, the buzzwords, I’ve noticed, are very much in the financial industry… Is machine learning. But, basically, using more modern artificial intelligence techniques in everything from investing to solving problems that they have on the consumer side, [inaudible 01:01:00]How much of [...]
from intensive competition, consolidation, and saturation by @andrewchenGrowth is getting hard from intensive competition, consolidation, and saturation"The reason for the above is that there are multiple trends – happening right now – that impede growth for new products. These trends are being driven by the biggest players – Google/Facebook, et al – but also by the significant [...]
LSE Business Review – Co-workers and makers: New public policies and corporate strategies for the cityOur seven propositions to make communities more open, sustainable and inclusive:More emphasis should be put on ‘infra-organisations’, i.e. transparent platforms designed for independent entities to share identity and governance.‘Infra-organisations’ provide infrastructural services without searching for the increasing returns likely to lead to a [...]
vía @luxonomy la barrera entre eCommerce y comercio físico está rota.Según el barómetro de consumo de Google, en España, durante el periodo 2014-2015, un 27% de consumidores realizaron esta práctica. En 2016 está cifra se ha elevado al 40%, y sigue en aumento. Para decantarnos más por la importancia del efecto ROPO, indicar que los consumidores [...]
by @Luxonomy Big Data para la venta de artículos de LujoAquellas empresas que venden directamente al usuario o cliente final son las que más pueden poner en práctica y mayor utilidad pueden obtener de Data Mining y Business Intelligence, porque reciben gran información sobre los clientes y pueden redirigir sus campañas hacía estos. Big Data incluye varios [...]
@isidremch, director del Master “ei” de la UV (Universidad de Valencia) presentó hace casi una mes el interesante estudio sobre la capacidad de innovación y el desempeño económico de la empresa valenciana entre 2007 y 2014.Se puede encontrar el estudio en pdf en este enlace.El primer dato importante que cabe resaltar es que el gasto [...]
Machine learning offers the promise that a lot of very large and very boring analyses of data can be automated - not just running the search, but working out what the search should be to find the result you want. That is, the eye-catching demos of speech interfaces or image recognition are just the most visible demos of [...]