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GOOGLE ANNOUNCES INVESTMENTS IN RENEWABLE ENERGIES

In a blog entry, Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced the “largest purchase of renewable energies in history” on the international action day of the Fridays for Future movement. The Internet group will purchase a package from a total of 1,600...

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INDIRECT PROCUREMENT HAS BECOME CRUCIAL FOR YOUR COMPANY SUCCESS – EXPLORE WHY

Since 2011, global indirect spending has risen by about 7 percent annually. Nevertheless, companies still do not pay the attention they deserve to indirect purchasing categories. In contrast, leading purchasing organizations are increasingly adopting a radically new understanding of the...

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COLLABORATIVE COMPANY BUILDING: BUILDING COMPANIES USING THE SPEEDBOAT APPROACH

In the past, a good idea was enough to be successful for years, but in the age of digitalization and globalization, the pressure to innovate is many times greater. Innovation cycles are becoming shorter, disruptions more profound and framework conditions...

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THE DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION BEGINS IN THE HEAD

Digitalization is changing markets and businesses to an unprecedented extent. By 2030, the pace of change will increase dramatically. But how can one profit from this and become a winner of this digital change? In his guest article, Jens-Uwe Meyer (expert...

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WHAT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE CAN DO IN MEDICINE?

Are computers wiser than a team of medical specialists for cancer diagnoses? Doctors doubt this and use computers so far mostly only as supporting assistants. But will it stay that way? For Dietmar Frey this is not science fiction. The...

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FIRST LONG-DISTANCE HEART SURGERY PERFORMED VIA ROBOT

A doctor in India has performed a series of five percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) procedures on patients who were 20 miles away from him. The feat was pulled off using a precision vascular robot developed by Corindus. The results of...

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ROBOTICS: SINGAPORE TAKES OVER WORLD CLASS AND SWITZERLAND IS CATCHING UP SLOWLY

The International Federation of Robotics has published figures on the global robotics market. While installations are stagnating in China, Europe and the USA are stepping on the gas in automation. But Switzerland is catching up only slowly. Most robots per...

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NATIONAL CONFERENCE DIGITAL SWITZERLAND: IF YOU WANT TO DIGITALIZE, YOU HAVE TO TAKE RISKS

Who actually makes the rules of digitalization? Does artificial intelligence need ethics? And where does Switzerland stand in the race for technological leadership? These questions were the focus of the National Conference Digital Switzerland in Basel. The name of the...

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THINKING THE BUSINESS MODEL DIGITALLY – HOW SMEs IN THE MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY BENEFIT FROM NETWORKING

The networking of things permeates all areas of life and forces the manufacturing industry to react to it. The Internet of Things and the technology of cyber-physical systems offer the potential for solutions. However, it requires that small and medium-sized...

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FIVE EMERGING TECHNOLOGY MEGATRENDS UNTIL 2029 BY GARTNER

Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies 2019 focuses on the interaction of man and machine and the integration of artificial intelligence. US market researchers investigated more than 2,000 emerging technologies and derived 5 megatrends for the next ten years. The...