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Sport and technology have a long history, but 2018 marked a significant milestone: Video Assistant Referee tech finally made its World Cup debut. Tennis embraced Hawk-Eye years ago, but football was much slower to adopt this kind of technology to help athletes and officials. But it isn’t just those on the pitch, or court, who are seeing the impact of technological change. Mobile apps can improve the fan experience, whether you’re at home or in the stands, by sharing match info...

The benefits of AI to HR are here now. It can improve employee productivity, direct employees on where and how to grow skillsets, and boost job satisfaction, ultimately empowering the HR function to play a more crucial role in the organization. Change is the only constant. It’s a cliché, but in the business world that cliché is absolutely true – nothing stays the same for long. And when it comes to technology, change seems to be particularly fast, no more so than with...

Avoid the tunnel vision. Look at the wider landscape. Don’t use data to look at individual channels performance now, but to create personal and compelling content that your customers want today and tomorrow. There’s a saying in sport that you should watch the game, not the ball. What this means is, the smartest players are several moves ahead ─ they anticipate where the ball might be next rather than where it is now. In evolving strategies to adapt to and deal with each...

Sport and technology have a long history, but 2018 marked a significant milestone: Video Assistant Referee tech finally made its World Cup debut. Tennis embraced Hawk-Eye years ago, but football was much slower to adopt this kind of technology to help athletes and officials. But it isn’t just those on the pitch, or court, who are seeing the impact of technological change. Mobile apps can improve the fan experience, whether you’re at home or in the stands, by sharing match info...

Cognitive tools and technologies, defined recently by Deloitte in a related blog, include artificial intelligence, machine learning, and predictive analytics, many of which mimic (to varying degrees) how the human brain thinks. Here is a summary of their findings and thinking with regards to the applications for CFOs Cognitive solutions can help companies get smarter and more efficient over time—just like humans do, only faster and more accurately. Far from esoteric, these...

Shared services centers are, by definition, characterized by process-driven, repetitive tasks. Pioneering organizations are already showing what automation can do to make them more efficient. New opportunities are round the corner. Robots are nothing new in factories. But over the past two years, many services-based businesses – and service teams – have made the connection between single-task robotic desktop automation and much deeper robotic process automation (RPA). Research ...

Recruiting, retention, and the employee experience can all be improved with better access to data. Most HR leaders know this, and see cloud-based human capital management (HCM) as the way to deliver on this promise. But convincing other stakeholders can be tricky. According to Matt Richards, MD at KPMG, around half of proposals to upgrade to HCM cloud technology are denied. So how can HR leaders deliver a proposal that succeeds? Structure the business case The C-suite receives...

Customer relationships are not the sole remit of the marketing department, however marketers can play a key role in highlighting the issues that prevent a company from being fully committed to improving their customers’ experience. Up to 20 years ago, Customer relationships were the responsibility of one or maybe 2 departments within a business, often working in isolation. In recent years, new thinking has been applied to how organizations should view and build...

Cloud adoption just keeps climbing. Public cloud services are now used by 85% of IT and cybersecurity professionals, up from 57% in 2013. But could there be a security storm in the air? Each year Oracle and KPMG produce the Oracle and KPMG Cloud Threat Report, based on a survey examining public cloud usage and cybersecurity measures. The latest findings show there’s plenty of confidence, but we see some mistakes more often than others – here are our top 5. Responsibility Cloud...