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Your Business Is Going to Depend on Connected Spenders, So You’d Better Understand Who They Are

Harvard Business

Today connected spenders count for about 19% of the global population, and that is projected to grow to 37% by 2025. where internet access is just shy of 90%, only 36% of the population are currently connected spenders, a number that will grow to over 50% by 2025. In markets such as the U.S.,

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Reader Asks "Without a Job, Who Can Afford to Buy What Robots Make?"

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McKinsey : Automation Will Change Jobs More Than Kill Them Bank of America : Robots and other forms of artificial intelligence will transform the world beyond recognition as soon as 2025 Pater Tenebrarum at the Acting Man blog pinged me with his thoughts (similar to ideas I have expressed before). Emphasis his, video follows.

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Self-Driving "WEpod" Shuttles Hit the Road in Europe; Autonomous Car Updates

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Link if video does not play: Audi's Self-Driving Car in Action. And millions of truck driving jobs will vanish by 2025. Visit [link] to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific. I suspect that may be too slow for safety reasons, not too fast. Then check this out.

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8 Ways Machine Learning Is Improving Companies’ Work Processes

Harvard Business

Corporate investment in artificial intelligence is predicted to triple in 2017 , becoming a $100 billion market by 2025. Related Video. Combined with profitability data, this allows organizations to optimize “next best action” strategies and personalize the end-to-end customer experience. Measuring brand exposure.

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How Gaming Is Shaping the Future of Work

Harvard Business

While most bosses would frown on playing Halo at the office, it’s video games that are driving much of the innovation in video, virtual reality, and collaboration technologies today—something that has important implications for how we work, especially with far-flung colleagues. Virtual reality promises a solution.

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Companies Are Working with Consumers to Reduce Waste

Harvard Business

billion by 2025. But as some companies are realizing, placing the burden of recycling entirely on the consumer is not an effective strategy—especially when tossing something away seems like the easiest and most convenient option. As consumers, we are very wasteful. Annually, the world generates 1.3 billion tons of solid waste.

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Stop Focusing on Profitability and Go for Growth

Harvard Business

Our models suggest that by 2025 global financial capital could easily surpass a quadrillion dollars, more than 10 times global GDP. The ready access to low-cost capital should change the way business leaders think about strategy, and in particular the relative value of improving profit margins versus accelerating growth. Related Video.