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Data–a valuable resource, advertising pool, or infrastructure? In the new study “Out and about with smart assistants,” GDI researchers developed three data employment  strategies for the tourism industry.

GDI researchers write in the study "The End of Consumption as We Know It" that there is no longer a classic way for a product to reach the consumer via manufacturing and retailing. Anyone can take up any position in the chain.

Recently, the first digital-only dress by the label The Fabricant was sold in New York for nearly 10,000 US dollars. Still a special niche market, but the business with digital apparel has potential.

"Synthetic", artificially generated experiences could soon be as real as physical ones. But what are the consequences? - A thought experiment on the future of consumption.

Back to the roots with new strategies: Olaf Koch has been leading and changing German retailer Metro since 2012. On 6 September 2019, he will speak at the GDI about the challenges of wholesale 360.

The analog age is over, and the digital age has long since begun. How can the data-driven world be made future-proof? - Answers from the new GDI study "The End of Consumption".

Hendrik Blijdenstein is CCO at Digitec Galaxus, the largest online retailer in Switzerland. In an interview ahead of the GDI Retail Summit in September, at which he is due to speak, he reveals how to keep up with Amazon and Alibaba, and how important drone delivery is to him.

If you want both to win and retain customers in the future, you must rethink the way your company communicates - more holistically and personally, write researchers at the GDI in a study.

Artificial intelligence can recognise and anticipate our feelings and moods with increasing accuracy. For algorithms, we have become an open book. No psychiatrist could sketch as precise a picture of our minds as this technology.

Demna Gvasalia is a fashion icon. The designer once founded the hip label Vetements together with his brother. Today, among other things, he is creative director of the luxury brand Balenciaga. At the GDI Retail Summit, he will be interviewed by Hans Ulrich Obrist, artistic director of the Serpentine Galleries in London. Here Obrist explains Gvasalia’s influence.