“Of all the industries in the world right now, mining might actually be the ripest for disruptive change."
Category: Insight
Study: Digital Transformation to Begin Adding $150 Billion to Indian GDP by 2021
Digital transformation will begin adding more than $150 billion to the GDP of India each year by 2021 and begin pushing overall economic expansion by an annual growth rate of 1%.
Frenemies: IBM Teams with Google on Power9 to Compete Against Intel and Amazon in Machine Learning, Data Centers
After spurring Intel’s growth in the CPU market and making the technology company a household name, IBM may be issuing a direct challenge to the chip maker by releasing its new Power9 CPU to the open market. In what may turn out to be a soap opera without the sex or bad lighting, Google seems...
Why Moving Our Telephony to AWS Gives Us a Clear Path to Deep Learning and Conversation Bots
Before launching Cognitive Business News and Unido Digital, I worked as an editor covering customer experience and disruptive technologies in the BPO sector. We are currently researching ways to apply many of these deep learning and artificial intelligence technologies like Lex, SageMaker, DeepLens, and Polly to business use cases. One of the things we are...
Avasant’s Anupam Govil Discusses RPA, Other Trends Affecting Caribbean Outsourcers During CAIPA Conference
The Caribbean Association of Investment Promotion Agencies (CAIPA) in association with the Caribbean Export Development Agency, Jamaica Promotions Corporation (JAMPRO) and the European Union hosted the first-ever pan-Caribbean outsourcing conference on December 6, 2017 at the Iberostar Rose Hall Beach Hotel in Montego Bay, Jamaica. Titled ‘Outsource to the Caribbean Conference 2017’ (OCC 2017), the...
How Long Will It Take for ‘Virtual Advisors’ to Arrive in the Workplace?
While many companies already have digital chatbots, robo-advisors, and other digital automation, the bulk of workplaces are still fully run by human brains. While some professions — like a butcher or hair stylist — may remain this way for some time, most companies with more than a few employees will soon be embracing automation. The...