Tag: Industries

June 23, 2016

  3D printing is disrupting the way we source products and do business around the world. What was once viewed as a distant possibility is now very much a reality. Companies across all industries should be looking at how they […]

June 6, 2016

The market for drone business services is worth more than $126 billion, according to a recent PwC report. Another report, which separates drones by type and use, predicts the market will reach $5.59 billion by 2020, a 32.22 percent increase […]

May 10, 2016

Henry Ford wouldn’t be happy. The car magnate’s model of mass production is on the verge of obsolescence. What will take its place? Microfactories. Microfactories are small manufacturing environments that make small-scale goods. They save space, can be environmentally sustainable […]

March 3, 2016

Shopping is social. Millennials are setting the tone and the medium is mobile. These consumer-driven trends in retail aren’t surprising. What is surprising is the amount of power they give consumers and how much pressure they put on retailers. Until […]

March 2, 2016

Science fiction writer William Gibson is credited with saying, ”The future is already here—it’s just not evenly distributed.” Such is the case with the Internet of Things (IoT). Digital business requires both data and the equipment to capture, store, manage, […]

November 17, 2015

Imagine you’re relaxing on a sunny beach when along comes an annoying buzz that rises above the sound of your radio. It could be a banner plane or a jet-ski — or it could be an unmanned aircraft system (UAS), […]

September 28, 2015

One of the truly exciting things about viral digital phenomena is how rapidly they can take hold, outstripping the slow, methodical spread of innovations in the pre-digital era. I suspect we may be on the verge of that happening again, […]

September 23, 2015

Our world is turning into one gigantic interconnected web, thanks to the growing number of devices and physical objects linked to the Internet—and to each other—via wireless networks. That’s the basic idea behind a term that’s being tossed around a […]