We live in a world where increasingly globalisation is under threat. The biggest threat comes from trade wars, started by Mr Trump, that could significantly harm the world economy. This week, the International Monetary Fund warned that Trump’s trade war could cost the global economy $430 billion in 2020
Read MoreThe fast-changing, uncertain and ambiguous environments that organisations operate in today, require organisations to re-think all their internal business processes and customer touch points. In addition, due to the availability of Emerging Information Technologies such as big data analytics, blockchain and artificial intelligence, it has become easier for startups to
Read MoreArtificial Intelligence is like Lego; to build something nice, you need to combine the right pieces in the right way. Most of us have played with Lego when we were small. I did at least and I absolutely loved it. I can remember the days when my friends and I
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Read MoreIt is that time of the year again and 2017 is over before we knew it. The Year of Intelligence [https://datafloq.com/read/the-top-7-big-data-trends-for-2017/2493] brought us a lot of progress and change; from over-hyped ICO’s to algorithms that created secret languages. As every year since 2012, I
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Read MoreWith technological advancement, artificial intelligence is set to touch and modify the financial sector, specifically retail banking in many different ways. It’s still the beginning stages of AI adoption for most banks. A Narrative Science survey [https://thefinancialbrand.com/63322/artificial-intelligence-ai-banking-big-data-analytics/] highlighted that 32 percent of financial executive participants
Read MoreThe earth is having a difficult time, for quite a while now. Deforestation is still happening at a large scale across the globe, in Brazil alone, 40,200 hectares [http://www.redd-monitor.org/2014/10/31/what-next-brazils-deforestation-soared-by-290-in-september-2014/] were deforested in the past year. The great pacific garbage patch is still
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