Blumberg Capital, a leading early-stage venture capital firm, has announced the results of its 2022 AI survey examining consumer behavior and attitudes on artificial intelligence (AI). The AI study found that consumers have largely moved beyond the adoption phase of AI and have a generally positive perception of how AI can improve their experiences across areas such as healthcare, personal finance...

As an immersive technology, virtual reality (VR) has vast marketing potential to materialise consumers’ desires, says Dr. Chloe Preece, Associate Professor of Marketing at ESCP Business School.

However, it also has a dark side where it can be used to better conceal the current power asymmetries which capitalist systems depend upon.

Alongside colleagues from Royal Holloway and King’s College Lond...

A new report by Everest Group has highlighted that people across the world want flexible access to their wages, but global solutions that meet this demand are in short supply.

The report - Global Earned Wage Access (EWA): Strategic Benefits for Employers and Financial Well-being for Employees – reveals that a combination of new demands from staff in a flexible world of work, the need for quick ac...

Hitachi Vantara, the digital infrastructure, data management and analytics, and digital solutions subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd., has released the findings from a 451 Research report commissioned by Hitachi Vantara that found a lack of digital skills is jeopardizing industries' digital transformation initiatives. The report "Industry 4.0: Maturity of Adoption and Its Impact on Sustainability ...

SBI, a Go-to-Market Growth Advisory, has announced survey findings that reveal CMO vulnerabilities in the current economic climate. In response, the Advisory provides recommendations for CMOs to drive efficiency and successfully lead during challenging times.

SBI's benchmark data reveals that CMOs started 2022 with optimism anticipating a 31.2% increase in revenue and a 22.4% increase in bud...

Private sector investment will be key to growth in the nature investment space, a new report from Imperial College Business School has revealed. It identifies European companies in the food agriculture and pharma industries with a total value of $4.8 billion already integrating nature into their operations through ambitious circular economy and sustainable land use principles, and estimates that t...

Nearly 80% of companies that are considered as "digital disrupters" gained market share over the last two years, according to new research by Bain & Company. Bain's fifth annual Benchmarking Survey of Corporate Digital Transformation shows that digital disrupters put "digital" at the very top of their agendas, yet even they are having to adapt to a fresh wave of emergin...

A decline in population growth leads to a jump in investment in robots, research from Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU) has found.

According to the study, undertaken by Klaus Prettner and Ana Lucia Abeliansky of WU’s Department of Economics, for every one percent decline in population growth, robot density growth increases by two percent. Countries with particularly low population ...

Middle-managers get caught between different stakeholders’ perceptions of fair treatment in reaction to corporate changes, reveals new research from Aalto University School of Business.

According to Associate Professor Marjo-Riitta Diehl, from the Department of Management Studies, and her co-authors, these managers can often experience uncertainty, anxiety, and reluctance to take action as a resu...