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• Sales, Marketing and Operations are most active early adopters of IoT today.
• Early adopters most often initiate pilots to drive revenue and gain operational efficiencies faster than anticipated.
• 32% of enterprises are investing in IoT, and 48% are planning to in 2019.
• IoT early adopters lead their industries in advanced and predictive analytics adoption.

The future of retail by Trendwatching: "Because while consumers may not care about the future of retail, they’re still busy creating that future. They’re fueled by a set of unchanging human needs. And their expectations never stand still. They want greater convenience. They want better value. They want excitement, meaning, status, relevance, authenticity, social connection and more."

Know what it takes to deliver the kind of experience that keeps customers coming back.

Are you wondering what the future holds for your eCommerce website? Want to know the future trends likely to decide the success of your online shop?
Here’s a quick summary of the key points of focus:
Personalized experience
Multiple shopping channels
Customer service automation
Cryptocurrencies as a payment method
On-site and in-app mobile commerce
Same-day delivery
Pay-monthly models
The future of delivery services
Increasing video use
Pop up shops

Forrester's Top Technology Trends To Watch 2018 to 2020 by Vice President and Principal Analyst Brian Hopkins. Technology influenced business changes.

Checkout 12 Most Popular Trends In Education For 2018 by TeachThought Staff. What are the popular trends in education in 2018? Well, that’s a tricky ques.

As we approach the year's second quarter, Google is already returning over 46,600 results for “digital trends 2017.” And if you’re in the digital marketing space, there seems to be an unspoken rule that you must always have an opinion on what the key trends will be for the year ahead.

But could it be that we’re all stuck in an industry echo chamber? As it turns out, some new research from Code Computerlove might burst that bubble.

Code Computerlove surveyed 1,000 U.K. adults to find out what they really think about these trend predictions -- things like voice search, virtual reality, and chat-bots. That data was then compared to what’s actually making the most noise online....

Au moment où les éditeurs de logiciels proposent des fonctionnalités toujours plus avancées pour affiner les critères de recherche du candidat idoine, aperçu de ce qui attend les professionnels RH avec les solutions de demain.

Key Findings:

1. A multimodal experience that incorporates conversational and visual interfaces has a bigger impact on the conversion funnel than any single mode.
2. Unified commerce across channels and throughout the customer purchase journey offers the flexibility and consistency to deliver a superior customer experience.
3. Business models such as subscription, thing commerce and enterprise marketplaces help organizations move toward digital business via new ways of doing business and/or facilitating digital platforms.
4. API-oriented architecture, artificial intelligence (AI), personalization engines and product configurators are key technologies and architecture that enable compelling customer experience and digital business models.

In our 26-criterion evaluation of web content management system (web CMS) providers, we identified the 15 most significant ones — Acquia, Adobe, Amplience, Automattic, BloomReach, Contentful, CoreMedia, Crownpeak, Episerver, Kentico Software, Magnolia, OpenText, Progress, SDL, and Sitecore — and researched, analyzed, and scored them. This report shows how each provider measures up and helps digital experience (DX) and strategy professionals make the right choice.

In this article, we cover a variety of examples in which AI is being integrated in the retail industry, broken down into the following sub-categories: Sales and CRM Applications, Customer Recommendations, Manufacturing, Logistics and Delivery, Payments and Payment Services

Top 20 new social media tools to try in 2018, including their prices, a quick walkthrough, and a review.

In today's "digital age," the dominant narrative is that e-commerce has fully eclipsed physical retail. The truth looks a bit different.

The Fourth Industrial Revolution represents a fundamental change in the way we live, work and relate to one another. It is a new chapter in human development, enabled by extraordinary technology advances commensurate with those of the first, second and third industrial revolutions. These advances are merging the physical, digital and biological worlds in ways that create both huge promise and potential peril. The speed, breadth and depth of this revolution is forcing us to rethink how countries develop, how organisations create value and even what it means to be human. The Fourth Industrial Revolution is about more than just technology-driven change; it is an opportunity to help everyone, including leaders, policy-makers and people from all income groups and nations, to harness converging technologies in order to create an inclusive, human-centred future. The real opportunity is to look beyond technology, and find ways to give the greatest number of people the ability to positively impact their families, organisations and communities.

Currently, dramatic changes take place in terms of rapidly emerging modes of communication, technologies, increased cultural diversity, evolving workplaces cultures, new challenges for equitable education and the varying and changing identities of students everywhere. Bearing this in mind, this article draws on a design-based research study to argue of the need for museums to respond to global trends and fulfill their social and educational imperatives by investigating the potential of a particular pedagogical framework that is grounded in culturally inclusive pedagogical practices and characteristics of ubiquitous learning.

Dans les prochaines décennies, des Steve Jobs de l’impression 3D feront fureur avec leurs applications user-friendly : les adolescents et les jeunes adultes s’en donneront à cœur joie à la maison, à l’école, à l’université et au travail.

“Tell me about your cap table?” I asked the founder of an early-stage startup. He was clearly passionate about his business, and had assembled a top-notch..

Le modèle du travail est en train de se transformer complètement. Des postes salariés de plus en plus rares, des créateurs d'entreprises de plus en plus précoces, des freelances en hausse... Désormais, le travail c'est du slash, du slow, du nomadisme ou du néo-ruralisme. Bref, on se réinvente.