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AI and Big Data
Harnessing AI to Combat Fraud in Retail and E-Commerce
Our reporters attended the Paris Retail Week 2024 event, a trade show of which we are media partners, to take stock of fraud and the role of AI. We collected a lot of valuable feedback on threats (both in-store and e-commerce) and the countermeasures proposed by artificial intelligence. To do…
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Breaking News
NRF Europe: a new name for Paris Retail Week
Paris Retail Week is soon to be rebranded as NRF Europe. Matthew Shay, president and CEO of the NRF and Laurent Noel, Divisional Managing Director of France’s B2B event giant Comexposium made a surprise announcement on the main stage of the Paris Retail Week exhibition show in Paris on September…
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AI and Big Data
GenAI impact on jobs: doom or boon?
What is the likely impact of AI and GenAI in particular on jobs, especially in Europe? Two recent reports on the topic, one in the UK and another one in France shed light on this question. According to the French report, such impact could amount to 5%. Yet another case…
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digital marketing
Music and AI: Back to the Future
Whether it’s music and AI, or innovation in the broad sense of the term, at Visionary Marketing we like to look back in time. A few days ago, while doing the housekeeping of some of our 3,000 articles, we rediscovered this post by Mia Tawile written in July 2016. Eight…
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AI and Big Data
Learning AI with the help of robots
Thomas Deneux is the founder of Learning Robots whose aim is to help pupils, students and businesses to learn AI, with the help of home-made self-driving gizmos. These little machines on two wheels are more serious than you’d think. They are all about the teaching of advanced computing. Thomas described…
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b2b marketing & sales
B2B vs. B2C Marketing
B2B vs B2C Marketing. One often opposes the two main kinds of marketing but aren’t they more or less six of one and half a dozen of the other? Some time ago, Capgemini consulting, that used to be my employer at the turn of the 21st century, organised a meeting…
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Web, Internet and the Economy
Rendanheyi, the Haier Management Model
It’s customary to turn to the US for management lessons, yet Haier, a Chinese company, has probably a lot to teach us too with its Rendanheyi management model. Jérôme Delacroix, a seasoned expert in Chinese management suggests that one could — ironically and provocatively — start copying Chinese companies’ management…
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Future of IT
Multicloud Synchronisation: Onecloud, Google Cloud and others
How do you achieve multicloud synchronisation, i.e. the synchronisation between multiple clouds such as Onedrive, Google Drive and the other platforms that keep your precious files in the cloud? When these are spread across several incompatible services, this can quickly become mind-boggling. I discovered, somewhat by chance, a service (and even…
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AI and Big Data
Perceptron: A History of Neural Networks
The Perceptron is the ancestor of Neural Networks and Generative AI, but it arrived 60 years too early and, above all, its promise was a tad overstated, to say the least. One started to imagine impossible things. Besides, artificial intelligence as no match for natural human resentment. Especially that of…
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social media & social networks
Networking and Growing Your B2B Business with LinkedIn
Walking down the roads of strategic thinking for professional networking or business building, most of us would agree to name LinkedIn as a well-built pathway to tread on. What’s better than understanding the dynamics of LinkedIn as a professional networking platform from someone who trains consultants and is an expert…
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Breaking News
Nobody understands how AI works
No one knows now AI really works an MIT reviewer states. A little while ago, at the beginning of 2024, we released a piece stating that the AI revolution would not take place. We understand that this was a very bold move. A few readers laughed, most dismissed the idea…
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AI and Big Data
Naturally Smart Writing, Beyond the Artificial
This piece is about proposing a framework for smart human writing. There’s such a flurry of social media content on AI one can legitimately feel bewildered. Every day we are overwhelmed with new GenAI tools, all deemed more “revolutionary” than those we had the day before. But do these tools really make…
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