Upside for Industrial Automation and Robotics Technology

The emerging market for Internet of Things (IoT) technology is expanding. In particular, industrial automation and industrial robotics — a subset of industrial automation — continue to evolve after decades of growth globally.

Source: Digital Lifescapes

Rational Economic Impact of Machine Learning and Robotics

Advances in machine learning and mobile robotics mean that robots could do your job better than you. That’s led to some radical predictions of mass unemployment, much more leisure or a work free future. What’s likely to happen, based upon the historical economic impact from automation?

Source: World Economic Forum

Why Digital Skills Must Become the Key Jobs Policy Issue

“A WorkingNation-produced video which stated that within 20 years, 47% of all U.S. jobs are at risk of being replaced by technology, according to a 2013 Oxford University study.”

Source: Knowledge@Wharton

Industrial Robotics Revenue will Reach $45 Billion in 2025

The automotive sector will remain the leading acquirer of industrial robotic systems, even as it loses share to other growing industry verticals, including the electrical and electronics, rubber, and plastics industries.

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Why IT Automation is a Catalyst for Digital Disruption

When we analyzed digital enterprises, two qualities stood out: One is continuance innovation or a culture of experimentation, and second was speed. Everything was done at five times, 10 times, 50 times the speed.

Source: World Economic Forum

Smart Machines: Designed and Built by Smart People

Technology will continue to displace humans in job roles that can be automated. For certain, business and government leaders will have a choice — accept progress and prosper, or wait for the inevitable outcome of regression. Historically, while most of the Luddites eventually concede, it’s a complicated scenario.

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How Enterprise IT Automation will Disrupt the Market

Automation is changing the development, procurement, and management of, enterprise IT – and therefore disrupting the business of IT sourcing, and the IT industry overall. By 2025, automation will have a $5.2 trillion to $6.7 trillion annual economic impact.

Source: ISG INSIGHTS

B2B Marketing Opportunity for Email Campaign Automation

According to B2B marketing execs worldwide, email was most effective during the awareness and consideration stages of the buying process, at 72% and 69% of respondents. Once the purchase stage came about, the number dropped to 36%.

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Big ideas and Digital Capital fuel the Global Networked Economy

Digital technologies are once again transforming global value chains and, with them, the structure of the global economy. What do businesses, citizens, and policymakers need to know as they scramble to keep up?

The world we are entering is one in which the most powerful global flows will be ideas and digital capital, not goods, services, and traditional capital.

via Project Syndicate

Business Case for Integration of Inbound Marketing Campaigns

Inbound marketing tactics — including content marketing, search engine optimization — are all critical for businesses looking to generate leads. But these tasks are also difficult to pull off, particularly the creation and marketing of content.

Sixty-seven percent of the companies that saw themselves achieving strong inbound marketing results had integrated the inbound marketing program, whereas only 9% of the least successful inbound marketers did so.

via eMarketer