The dream of a truly intelligent mobile assistant has been a staple of science fiction for decades. We imagine an AI that lives in our pocket, capable of not just answering trivia questions or setting ...

The world of robotics is currently undergoing a massive transformation. For years, the industry was dominated by two distinct categories: the rigid, wheeled rovers that offered stability but limited ...

Social business is defined in several ways as it touches many dimensions in a connected and social reality. An exploration and overview of potential business ...

In today’s connected economy, we work with an increasing number of third parties. And every time we onboard another third party, we open ourselves up to new possibilities and risks. Dealing with the ...

Customer loyalty is still looked upon as a holy grail in customer relationship management and marketing. We want loyal customers as they don’t just have a strong connection with our company and buy ...

The manufacturing industry is one of the industries which moved rather slow from an enterprise-wide and certainly ecosystem-wide digital transformation perspective. The changing expectations of ...

The number of smart port projects with a blockchain technology component keeps increasing. In several ports and port cities, such as Hamburg to name just one, blockchain has become part of the broader ...

Sensors have become ubiquitous. They have existed since long before the advent of the Internet and certainly before the Internet of Things or IoT. Modern smart sensors enable more applications than ...

There are many ways to look at an organization and thus how to transform and optimize its various ‘components’. One potential view is to see organizations as a group of people, working together to ...

Chance is high that by now you have heard about the third platform. If not, you probably will soon as it takes center stage in digital transformation. At the IDC Directions 2011 event Frank Gens of ...

EU GDPR approved codes of conduct: how the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) has changed the role of codes of conduct in EU privacy and personal data protection and what you need to know about ...

We’ve been living in the information age since at least the end of the seventies, early eighties. An age in which – digital – information has increasingly become a key driver and enabler of the ...