Digitisation

At the 69th International Retail Summit, Jeongwen Chiang, Professor of Marketing at CEIBS, gave an interview on the development of the Chinese market and the main differences between European and Chinese retailing.

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.

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".

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.

Everyone is collecting data, but hardly anyone is using it. This slumbering potential can only be fully utilised with common standards and a common language. The latest GDI study describes what this could mean for the tourism industry.

Cooking series or SciFi adventures – Netflix knows what we want to watch. And Michelle Ufford knows which intelligent algorithms help make predictions and how they work. In an interview with the GDI, the former data manager of the streaming portal talks about Netflix, binge-watching and why we could be more creative than ever in a predictable world.

Reality or fiction? In terms of consumption, this question will soon be irrelevant. We are in the midst of a fundamental change in which the physical components of consumption are increasingly combined with virtual ones: "Entanglement" and “Vireality.”

We have seen a very significant surge of interest in AI recently, says Ajay Agrawal, Professor at the University of Toronto. In a video interview, conducted at the GDI conference "The Power of Predictions", he names three reasons for this phenomenon and points out the rising importance of human judgement when working with AI.

The possibilities of radically more accurate predictions through artificial intelligence will also radically change our lives. GDI Head of Research Karin Frick has put forward six theses regarding artificial intelligence.

On 7 May 2019, at a ceremony attended by top international representatives from the worlds of business, research and politics, the 13th Gottlieb Duttweiler Prize was awarded to the AI platform Watson – and accepted on its behalf by John E. Kelly III, IBM Executive Vice President.