digital Transformation
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Why should future managers invest in Data Science ?
Managers to be had better invest time in Data Science. The Business Analytics Institute will once again be hosting its Summer School in Data Science for Management in Bayonne, France from July 2 to 11 2018. In this exclusive five-part series, we will explore the BAI’s unique value proposition around improving…
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Click and Mortar: Is this the Future of Retail Marketing?
Have you ever shopped online and wished that you could physically see or feel an item? Have you ever shopped at a store and wished that the associate could understand precisely what you wanted? Companies are now moving in a direction in which both of these needs, and more, could…
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Digital Training: My Advice to Executives In the Middle of a Career Move
Digital training? But what the hell is digital in the first place? Digital training in the information age seems pretty straightforward. And yet. The very definition of the digital domain is mind-boggling and fuzzy. Where does it start, where does it end? Also, choosing a digital training programme, like any…
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Online sales, fashion retail and digital: The Burberry case
What can we learn from Burberry in Fashion online sales ? I recently came across a study done by ContactLab which reveals some amazing facts about Fashion Retail merging with Digital. According to their study “Digitally driven in-store sales already account for 1/4 of retail revenues already. The study anticipates that by…
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Digital nomads: combining work and travel
Not a long time ago, we’ve all heard about the blogger Sam Cookney who lived in Barcelona and worked in London. This sounded like a weird thing to do. However, a lot of people have that exact same lifestyle today. Indeed, there is an increasing number of digital nomads. If…
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User behaviour deeply impacted by digital technology
Changes in user behaviour are happening now, due to the uptake in digital technology. David Shing, also known as Shingy, is a digital prophet. His job is to identify trends for brands, audiences and companies at large. He spoke at the SAS Forum 2015 which took place in Paris on…
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Digital transformation of chartered accountants the Boiling Frog syndrome
Digital transformation for accountants or any other service industry reminds me of the so-called ‘boiling frog syndrome’. Recently, I delivered several presentations to the chartered accountants’ community in and around town. Digital transformation and the Boiling Frog syndrome This phenomenon mirrors the issues linked to change management in a large…
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The future of smart cities: do we really need them?
Smart cities are real but will we really need them in the future to solve the modern urban conundrum. On one hand, we can observe a huge increase in population and resource consumption and waste. On the other, nobody can fail to notice all the technological advances. This evolution in…
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Digital transformation: one size fits all does not apply
What do a butterfly and the emission of water vapour have in common? At first sight nothing, except that both are the results of a transformation, the latter of a certain quantity of water, the former of a caterpillar. Nobody would usually compare both, since the nature of these transformations, the…
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Interactive Intelligence conquers collaboration market from the cloud
The collaboration market and “unified communication space” is a weird space. It has been around for ages (I used to be in charge of that product line for Orange at the turn of the 21st century). Now a new player in that field is rising, and they are no newcomer.…
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Digital transformation: reinventing retail banking
With digital transformation, the retail banking market is being completely reconfigured. New players are entering the market and new expectations are high. Hence, retail banks need to change the way they operate. They should try and adapt to this transforming market, and maintain their ability to grow. Digital transformation is…
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Big Data: there is a dire need to get back to basics
Back to basics! Belgian expert Pierre Nicolas Schwab’s piece on Big Data is based on his past assignments with companies trying to launch such initiatives. When I discovered Pierre Nicolas’s prose, I must admit that I felt better for discovering that the issue of “small data” is ubiquitous. Big Data:…
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