Themes

The financial services industry is on the brink of disruption, as the use of technology poses a challenge to market players and their existing products and services and associated costs. Thus it is important to revisit one of the oldest industries and re-conceptualize how it will thrive in the future aligning itself to looming social and technologi...

Consumer robots have been experiencing significant technology enhancements in the recent years. Robots are destined to play a vital role in transforming everyday lives of humans. Consumer robots can be classified into four main types: • Personal and Educational • Security and Surveillance • Social and Home • Domestic and Tasks Th...

As Europe battles unequal growth and environmental, economic, social, and political challenges, Britain has chosen to fight its challenges alone. This study puts forth a hypothetical timeline to the events that might unfold in the next five years and examines the potential trade models that may come to reality between Britain and the European Union...

With the growth of online retail in Europe, the return logistics market is seeing tremendous expansion and giving rise to a range of new participants offering innovative returns models. By 2020, the business for logistics companies focusing on product returns will double. This implies significant growth of nearly 13% over the next 5 years and provi...

There have been significant, positive shifts in the approach to women’s roles in society around the world. More women are now moving to leadership positions, occupying more seats in the boardroom, scaling successful companies, and even making a successful political presence. Women can drive the world’s economy as they represent a growth market ...

With improvements in data acquisition and computing power, artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming more of a reality each day. Companies are constantly developing self-evolving machine learning approaches and hardware enhancements to support AI applications. This study explores new innovations in machine learning and computing that will enable the...

Availability of information is one of the major challenges that exists in healthcare system due to lack of technology infrastructure and connectivity. With a distributed network architecture, information is scattered across several repositories, however it fails to integrate these repositories to provide valuable insights in critical situations. Th...

In an increasingly convergent industry such as healthcare, business collaborations are not only a necessity, but an inevitability. It is interesting to note that technologies and market segments that receive the most funding and research focus, are also the areas that are ripe for collaborative partnerships. Market segments such as personalized med...