Disney is leveraging digital technology and data analytics to transform the customer experience across its businesses. It has invested over $1 billion in its MyMagic+ initiative, which uses magic bands and a mobile app to provide a seamless, personalized experience for visitors to its theme parks. Disney also uses analytics to improve operational efficiency and forecasting, and has an organizational focus on digital with leadership from top tech executives and ongoing investment in emerging technologies through partnerships and research.
Totem Sustainability wants to make sustainability easy and affordable for all organisations. Starting with a focus on energy, water and waste data we will help organisations manage their legal and voluntary sustainability requirements and integrate their reporting, saving time, money, and the planet. The data will then be shared to increase the learning opportunities for our customers and for governments, universities and other interested parties. That’s Sustainability for Everyone.
The value of digitally influenced spending in emerging markets will approach $4 trillion by 2022, amounting to about 50% of all retail spending in Asia, Latin America, and Africa. But the dynamics will vary widely between markets, requiring B2C companies to “de-average” their offerings in order to succeed.
The world is recovering from the pandemic and adapting to new ways of life, both in changed habits and behaviours, but also new rules for businesses to navigate to continue to prosper.
Necessity is the mother of invention. Times of crisis and recession have been, in retrospect, times of enormous opportunity and innovation, and times of growth for those who make the right decisions.
Technologies and ways of working that might have seemed an interesting experiment in other times have become essential.
In this report we look at three megatrends that are helping to define the recovery, each with smaller manifestations or sub-trends, with major implications for brands.
BCG has launched its Telco Sustainability Index, designed to capture the four dimensions most relevant to a telco’s environmental strategy. The index tracks the company’s commitment to sustainability, its emissions intensity and that of its upstream and downstream partners, its elimination of waste, and its customer enablement.
Score card template for MSME lending with objective to create automatic underwriting engine using flow based lending framework. Data points can e taken from various sources like GST portal, Account statement, UPI, India stack, Bharat bill payment, Digilocker to create robust underwriting engine.
Totem Sustainability wants to make sustainability easy and affordable for all organisations. Starting with a focus on energy, water and waste data we will help organisations manage their legal and voluntary sustainability requirements and integrate their reporting, saving time, money, and the planet. The data will then be shared to increase the learning opportunities for our customers and for governments, universities and other interested parties. That’s Sustainability for Everyone.
The value of digitally influenced spending in emerging markets will approach $4 trillion by 2022, amounting to about 50% of all retail spending in Asia, Latin America, and Africa. But the dynamics will vary widely between markets, requiring B2C companies to “de-average” their offerings in order to succeed.
The world is recovering from the pandemic and adapting to new ways of life, both in changed habits and behaviours, but also new rules for businesses to navigate to continue to prosper.
Necessity is the mother of invention. Times of crisis and recession have been, in retrospect, times of enormous opportunity and innovation, and times of growth for those who make the right decisions.
Technologies and ways of working that might have seemed an interesting experiment in other times have become essential.
In this report we look at three megatrends that are helping to define the recovery, each with smaller manifestations or sub-trends, with major implications for brands.
BCG has launched its Telco Sustainability Index, designed to capture the four dimensions most relevant to a telco’s environmental strategy. The index tracks the company’s commitment to sustainability, its emissions intensity and that of its upstream and downstream partners, its elimination of waste, and its customer enablement.
Score card template for MSME lending with objective to create automatic underwriting engine using flow based lending framework. Data points can e taken from various sources like GST portal, Account statement, UPI, India stack, Bharat bill payment, Digilocker to create robust underwriting engine.
Blockchain investors have it really tough. Their management teams need to take some really "techy" cryptocurrency concepts and make them super-simple for stakeholders to understand.
We cut through the noise and helped our clients focus on what's most important: who benefits, how, and why? With a clear and cohesive story, this business showed its true colors - a crystal-clear value proposition.
BCG's 2014 Local Dynamos are formidable competitors, defeating foreign and local companies with a comprehensive understanding of their own backyards and a willingness to “go for it.” Global companies seeking to compete in these markets must emulate the characteristics of the Local Dynamos while emphasizing their core advantages as MNCs.
For further reading: https://www.bcgperspectives.com/content/articles/globalization_consumer_products_2014_bcg_local_dynamos_how_companies_emerging_markets_winning_home/.
All hospital - the biggest hospital marketplace (Pitch Deck)kamiliano
The biggest Internet platform for finding best hospitals and treatment abroad. We operate with 750+ Top hospitals in 33 countries and available on 103 languages. Incorporated in London, UK and looking for investments.
Today's customers are fundamentally different from customers of past years as they are harder to acquire, retain, and delight because of the explosion in digital technologies consumers use day to day. New digital experiences are forcing banks to play catch-up and match the innovative and engaging interactions and products — such as mobile payments — that non-banks are offering to those same customers. This IDC research, sponsored by TCS Digital Software & Solutions Group, revealed three key themes for digital transformation in the banking industry.
Presentation about Tinkoff bank. Provides overview on history, financial strategy, and other aspects of the bank. Prepared based on Tinkoff annual statement.
Similar to other financial services domains, payments is evolving into an open ecosystem. The EU’s Payment Services Directive (PSD2) pioneered open banking by encouraging banks and established payments players to securely open the systems to foster competition, innovation, and more customer choices. In tandem with non-cash transaction growth, regulations are driving banks and payments firms to expand their array of payment methods and channels. Governments are encouraging financial inclusion by also promoting the adoption of non-cash payments. Increasingly, merchants and corporates seek to offer alternative payment systems because of widespread popularity among consumers. Alternative payments also enable merchants to provide real-time and cross-border payments to boost business efficiency.
Banks, payment firms, card firms, BigTechs, FinTechs, and other players are continuously developing new technology to cash in on market changes. However, data breaches and fraud continue to hinder innovation as firms devote countless resources each year to address security issues. Many governments are also designing new regulations to reduce ecosystem threats. All these measures are expected to make the current ecosystem much more secure and simple for players as well as customers.
Top Trends in Payments: 2020 explores and analyzes payments ecosystem initiatives and solutions for this year and beyond
Collective Audience Transforming Digital AdvertisingPeter Bordes
It's time for a change in the global digital media and advertising landscape. Our mission is to lead the next generation of platforms that move the industry away from fragmented, siloed walled gardens. To a global, open interconnected ecosystem that brings all the modules of advertising, media, data, and AI together. Removes inefficiencies, and empowers our partners with the efficient liquidity they need to reach, transact, and the realize value of their greatest asset. Thier audiences.
We are a collaborative collective that believes in the power of collective intelligence, and that we are stronger as a group than as individuals. Our superpower is a relentless drive to innovate. The most fruitful collaborations are those where we walk away having learned something new. We are curious, passionate, proactive problem-solvers. We partner with forward-thinking inspiring brands, agencies, and publishers.
BCG and Meta today announced the launch of a new report around the increasing influence of digital in driving media and entertainment consumption in India.
Agenda:
Part I
ESG Trends to Watch in 2021 - Alex G. Lee
The Role and ROI of ESG in Private Equity - Mike Spaeth
The state of the art AI innovations Status - Alex G. Lee
Part II
Status of AI applications for ESG - Alex G. Lee
Live Demos of AI applications for ESG analysis (ESG scoring, investing opportunities/risks identification) - Alex G. Lee
Weave.AI's Spectrum ESG Demo - Nosa Omoigui
EcoVadis' (https://ecovadis.com/) Business Sustainability Ratings Practices - Mike Spaeth
Part III
Status of blockchain applications for ESG - Alex G. Lee
Introduction of DeFi- Alex G. Lee
DeFi based ESG financing platform development - Alex G. Lee
Part IV
Q&A & Discussion - Alex G. Lee & Mike Spaeth
KPCB Design in Tech Report 2015: Simplified and RedesignedStinson
This year, KPCB released a great report on design in technology that we thought could use some design love! Check out our our version of John Maeda's report - simplified & redesigned.
Their original deck and presentation can be found here:
- http://www.slideshare.net/kleinerperkins/design-in-tech-report-2015?ref=http://www.kpcb.com/design
- http://www.kpcb.com/design/design-and-vc
Looking to simplify and redesign your PowerPoint presentation? We can help!
www.stinsondesign.com
@stinsondesign
1.888.960.9851
Bcg cii report - one consumer, many interactions - december 2018Social Samosa
The report highlights the massive, unparalleled change the media and entertainment industry is going through, with the exponential growth of media and type of content available creating a trillion customer touch points.
Blockchain investors have it really tough. Their management teams need to take some really "techy" cryptocurrency concepts and make them super-simple for stakeholders to understand.
We cut through the noise and helped our clients focus on what's most important: who benefits, how, and why? With a clear and cohesive story, this business showed its true colors - a crystal-clear value proposition.
BCG's 2014 Local Dynamos are formidable competitors, defeating foreign and local companies with a comprehensive understanding of their own backyards and a willingness to “go for it.” Global companies seeking to compete in these markets must emulate the characteristics of the Local Dynamos while emphasizing their core advantages as MNCs.
For further reading: https://www.bcgperspectives.com/content/articles/globalization_consumer_products_2014_bcg_local_dynamos_how_companies_emerging_markets_winning_home/.
All hospital - the biggest hospital marketplace (Pitch Deck)kamiliano
The biggest Internet platform for finding best hospitals and treatment abroad. We operate with 750+ Top hospitals in 33 countries and available on 103 languages. Incorporated in London, UK and looking for investments.
Today's customers are fundamentally different from customers of past years as they are harder to acquire, retain, and delight because of the explosion in digital technologies consumers use day to day. New digital experiences are forcing banks to play catch-up and match the innovative and engaging interactions and products — such as mobile payments — that non-banks are offering to those same customers. This IDC research, sponsored by TCS Digital Software & Solutions Group, revealed three key themes for digital transformation in the banking industry.
Presentation about Tinkoff bank. Provides overview on history, financial strategy, and other aspects of the bank. Prepared based on Tinkoff annual statement.
Similar to other financial services domains, payments is evolving into an open ecosystem. The EU’s Payment Services Directive (PSD2) pioneered open banking by encouraging banks and established payments players to securely open the systems to foster competition, innovation, and more customer choices. In tandem with non-cash transaction growth, regulations are driving banks and payments firms to expand their array of payment methods and channels. Governments are encouraging financial inclusion by also promoting the adoption of non-cash payments. Increasingly, merchants and corporates seek to offer alternative payment systems because of widespread popularity among consumers. Alternative payments also enable merchants to provide real-time and cross-border payments to boost business efficiency.
Banks, payment firms, card firms, BigTechs, FinTechs, and other players are continuously developing new technology to cash in on market changes. However, data breaches and fraud continue to hinder innovation as firms devote countless resources each year to address security issues. Many governments are also designing new regulations to reduce ecosystem threats. All these measures are expected to make the current ecosystem much more secure and simple for players as well as customers.
Top Trends in Payments: 2020 explores and analyzes payments ecosystem initiatives and solutions for this year and beyond
Collective Audience Transforming Digital AdvertisingPeter Bordes
It's time for a change in the global digital media and advertising landscape. Our mission is to lead the next generation of platforms that move the industry away from fragmented, siloed walled gardens. To a global, open interconnected ecosystem that brings all the modules of advertising, media, data, and AI together. Removes inefficiencies, and empowers our partners with the efficient liquidity they need to reach, transact, and the realize value of their greatest asset. Thier audiences.
We are a collaborative collective that believes in the power of collective intelligence, and that we are stronger as a group than as individuals. Our superpower is a relentless drive to innovate. The most fruitful collaborations are those where we walk away having learned something new. We are curious, passionate, proactive problem-solvers. We partner with forward-thinking inspiring brands, agencies, and publishers.
BCG and Meta today announced the launch of a new report around the increasing influence of digital in driving media and entertainment consumption in India.
Agenda:
Part I
ESG Trends to Watch in 2021 - Alex G. Lee
The Role and ROI of ESG in Private Equity - Mike Spaeth
The state of the art AI innovations Status - Alex G. Lee
Part II
Status of AI applications for ESG - Alex G. Lee
Live Demos of AI applications for ESG analysis (ESG scoring, investing opportunities/risks identification) - Alex G. Lee
Weave.AI's Spectrum ESG Demo - Nosa Omoigui
EcoVadis' (https://ecovadis.com/) Business Sustainability Ratings Practices - Mike Spaeth
Part III
Status of blockchain applications for ESG - Alex G. Lee
Introduction of DeFi- Alex G. Lee
DeFi based ESG financing platform development - Alex G. Lee
Part IV
Q&A & Discussion - Alex G. Lee & Mike Spaeth
KPCB Design in Tech Report 2015: Simplified and RedesignedStinson
This year, KPCB released a great report on design in technology that we thought could use some design love! Check out our our version of John Maeda's report - simplified & redesigned.
Their original deck and presentation can be found here:
- http://www.slideshare.net/kleinerperkins/design-in-tech-report-2015?ref=http://www.kpcb.com/design
- http://www.kpcb.com/design/design-and-vc
Looking to simplify and redesign your PowerPoint presentation? We can help!
www.stinsondesign.com
@stinsondesign
1.888.960.9851
Bcg cii report - one consumer, many interactions - december 2018Social Samosa
The report highlights the massive, unparalleled change the media and entertainment industry is going through, with the exponential growth of media and type of content available creating a trillion customer touch points.
We all know that technology has changed the way we work, the way w.docxcelenarouzie
We all know that technology has changed the way we work, the way we play and the way we live. We sometimes just don’t realize how much. Changes can be very, very subtle. We all have some sort of mobile or hand held device. Some of you have several! These devices have also changed the way we work, the way we play, the way we live. No longer do we have just portable phones or that allow voice and text. These devices do much more than just allowing us to check email. We have smart phones and tablets that operate the same as any PC. We are no longer tied to a desk! We can work anywhere, any time. These digital devices allow us to communicate instantly, anywhere, any time.
Let’s take a look at the introductory case at the very beginning of Chapter 1: Shortening Lines at Disney World: Technology to the Rescue. We don’t normally think of Disney World being a high tech operation, but this amusement park is certainly cutting edge. Read this short case and respond to the following questions. Remember to write in complete sentences.
1. Describe the “command center” at Disney.
2. Explain how Disney uses “Move it! Shake it! Celebrate it!”.
3. How are information systems improving operations at Disney?
4. Give an example of two management decisions that are improved and streamlined by Disney’s information systems.
5. Disney is not in a position to expand the park and the park holds only so many people at one time. This means Disney must increase revenue by adding to the customer experience. How is Disney increasing the restaurant and food service revenues through information services?
6. What are some applications for hand held devices that Disney provides customers?
7. Assume you are a business or MIS manager at Disney World. Think of a new use or application for video, digital or a mobile device that would help Disney to increase revenue and the customer experience.
Insert your answers directly under each question
Shortening Lines at Disney World: Technology to the Rescue
No one likes standing in line at Orlando’s Walt Disney World, least of all parents with several young children in tow. In recent years, the average Magic Kingdom visitor only had time for nine rides because of lengthy waits and crowded restaurants and walkways. Disney’s management is unhappy with these long lines as well, and is using information technology to change that experience.
Disney handles over 30 million visitors each year, many of them during peak family vacation times, such as Christmas, Thanksgiving, and summer vacations. Disney has been treating crowd control as a science for a long time, and now it wants to quicken the pace even more. Customers accustomed to video games and smartphones expect entertainment to be immediately available.
Disney World’s management would genuinely like to make its guests happier. In order to increase revenue at Disney’s theme parks, it must try to wring more expenditures from existing customers. So it’s definitely in Disney’s interest to in.
Show of Your Bright Sign with Advanced CommunicationLC TECH VIETNAM
Did you know that companies with high levels of employee engagement are more successful in retaining their valued employees? Engagement beings with communication, and digitalsignage is a powerful medium for communicating with all internal personas.
Hexnode Digital Signage Software: Adding value to your digital signage marketing.
Digital signage: an add-on to the kiosk technology.
Android digital signage management with Hexnode
International Keynote Speaker Mark van Rijmenam gave the opening Keynote during Big Data World Insights 2015 in Medellin, Colombia. He shared the story how Walt Disney has a magical approach to Big Data, combining analytics, Big Data and the Internet of Things in a fantastic concept.
We are a team of professionals, providing various starting and mature businesses with a range of marketing services in digital. We do strategy development, branding, performance marketing, e-commerce design and promotion, design adaptations to various formats. Let's discuss your next great project together!
Store operations staff are often measured by improvements in same store performance year over year – and increasing customer engagement is the most important indicator of intention
The CEO Story Features Digidrub: Carving A Digital Space For Surging GrowthUtsav Vora
Well, April certainly started with a bang for all of us at DigiDrub! We are immensely honored and humbled to announce that DigiDrub has been featured in this month’s issue of The CEO Story, one of the world’s leading business magazines.
Navigating the Future: The Power of Digital Signage Screensjackcolin258
In the fast-paced digital landscape, the humble "Digital Signage Screen" emerges as a powerful tool, transforming static displays into dynamic, interactive communication hubs. This exploration into the realm of digital signage screens delves into their impact, applications, and the innovative ways businesses and organizations leverage this technology to engage, inform, and captivate their audiences.
Erdinç Saçan schreef voor het Fontys collega een boek over Inclusieve Artificial Intelligence. Vragen waar in het boek over wordt nagedacht zijn onderandere: “Kunnen we algoritmen inzetten voor het algemene belang, om zo discriminatie en ongelijkheid te bestrijden?” & “Algoritmes nemen steeds meer beslissingen voor ons. Hoe zorgen we ervoor dat dit op een inclusieve manier gebeurt?”
Themabrochure robotisering gerformeerde bond - prof.dr. m.j. de vriesRick Bouter
In de nieuwste themabrochure van de Gereformeerde Bond, getiteld Robotisering, gaat prof. dr. M.J. de Vries in op de voordelen maar ook de gevaren van het inzetten van robots. Voor welke morele keuzes komen we te staan? Moeten robots bijvoorbeeld ook in de zorg worden gebruikt, om zo de werkdruk van het zorgpersoneel te verlichten? In de Bijbel komen robots uiteraard niet voor, maar kunnen we in Gods Woord handvatten vinden om met deze technologie goed om te gaan?
Internet of things and the metamorphosis of objects - rick bouter , gérald ...Rick Bouter
Where in prior times technique was referring to: “a method of accomplishing a desired aim”,
today we speak more of technology. Technology has long been presented as a set of
techniques; today it has become more than a method to accomplish a desired aim. From now
on, we live in ‘the age of makers’. In times when there are more people with mobile phone
access than toothbrushes, everyone has the ability to start up a million euro business from
behind the kitchen table.
Technology does not only affect business any longer; it also affects culture, politics, society
and every element we value in life. Maybe most important of all, it affects the human race as
we know it today. For the reason technology will impact the way we have lived for ages, it is
legitimate to ask whether there is an intersection where humans and objects will find a
mutually beneficial coexistence, or whether one of these entities will rule over the other, or
whether there will be an alliance between the human race and some sort of technology that
represents a global connected world brain.
Will technology be, like in prior times, a collection of methods to accomplishing a desired
aim, or will the human race be enslaved by technology and ruled by the artificial intelligence
embedded in it?
Trend 1: CITIZEN AI
Raising AI to Benefit Business and Society
Trend 2 EXTENDED REALITY
The End of Distance
Trend 3 DATA VERACITY
The Importance of Trust
Trend 4 FRICTIONLESS BUSINESS
Built to Partner at Scale
Trend 5 INTERNET OF THINKING
Creating Intelligent Distributed Systems
Ai - Artificial Intelligence predictions-2018-report - PWCRick Bouter
Here’s some actionable advice on artificial intelligence (AI), that you can
use today: If someone says they know exactly what AI will look like and
do in 10 years, smile politely, then change the subject or walk away.
Internet of things rapport sogeti - vi nt - rick bouterRick Bouter
Internet of Things for business: from sick(care) to health(care) final thesis Rick Bouter Sogeti VInT (Vision inspiration new technology) verkenning instituut nieuwe technologie
Telegram open network ton will be a third generationRick Bouter
Telegram Open Network (TON) will be a “third generation” blockchain with more efficient transaction and scaling capabilities than current solutions like Bitcoin and Ethereum.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
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“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”- Arthur C. Clarke
‘Magic’ is something that most people associate with on-stage performances. But magic can also result when digital technology is used in the right place and with the right goals. Imagine, for instance, a different kind of restaurant experience. You enter the establishment, tap your order into a device, take any seat you want, and soon after – as if by magic – the waiter appears at your chosen table and addresses you by name. Or, you want to make an impulse purchase, and all it takes is a tap of your wrist. These experiences – while reminiscent of the fictitious wave of a magic wand – are firm reality. They are very real examples of what has been made possible by a wrist-band introduced into its world-famous theme parks by Disney, an organization that has been part of the fabric of the entertainment industry for over 90 years. Technology today comes naturally to the entertainment giant. As Bob Iger, Chairman and CEO, Walt Disney Company says, “Technology is lifting the limits of creativity and transforming the possibilities for entertainment and leisure1.”
Parks are only one area where Disney is using digital technology to sprinkle some magic onto the customer experience. Walt Disney Studios recently unveiled a product – Movies Anywhere – that lets consumers discover, buy and watch films across different devices. The application allows users to digitally curate a collection of movies that they have already purchased and can redeem from their DVD collection. It also includes controls so that parents can safeguard the content for their children2.
Disney’s video game unit also launched a game, Infinity, which allows players to
An Organization that has Taken Digital to Heart
Figure 1: Disney’s Magic Bands
Source: Company press release
mix and match popular Disney and Pixar characters in self-constructed video game adventures. The game cost over $100 million to develop. It ended 2013 as one of the top 10 best-selling games in the US and sold over 3 million starter packs globally3.
These examples from different parts of the Disney organization illustrate the company’s overall strategy. Disney is using digital to engage, entertain and interact with consumers every day across its theme parks, studio entertainment, interactive media platforms and physical store.
Technology is lifting the limits of creativity and transforming the possibilities for entertainment and leisure.
- Bob Iger, Chairman & CEO, Disney
Disney today is leveraging digital to engage, entertain and interact with consumers every day across its theme parks, studio entertainment, interactive media platforms and physical store.
This approach has required significant effort and commitment. It is the result of a sustained vision driven right from the top, along with significant investments in technology. The overall strategy has three pillars, which Bob Iger, CEO of Disney, summarizes as: “One: Invest most of the capital in creating high-quality, branded content and experiences. Two: Embrace technology and use it aggressively to enhance the quality of Disney’s product and thus the consumer experience. And lastly, get closer to the customer by becoming more efficient as a company4.”
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Disney’s technology approach was based
on four goals: transforming the customer
experience, driving operational efficiency,
personalization using connected products,
and enhanced interactivity across channels
(see Figure 2).
Analytics helped improve
Disney’s accuracy in
managing labor resources
at its parks by 20%.
Disney’s call centre
analytics project paid for
itself “10 times over” in
the first year of operation.
Figure 2: Key Digital Levers Deployed by Disney
Source: Capgemini Consulting Analysis
Using Analytics to Improve
Guest Experience
Disney uses data mining to understand
past behavior and preferences of individual
guests. Forecasting models are used to
determine the kind of vacation packages
preferred by guests and help the company
provide targeted hotel offers to its
customers5. Using this model, Disney’s call
centre operators were able to offer families
low-priced hotels available on its list, which
has led to improved repeat business.
This call centre analytics project paid for
itself “10 times over” in the first year of
operation6.
Disney deploys significant real-time analytics
in its day-to-day operations in order to
enhance the customer experience at its
theme parks. One example is forecasting
the waiting time for its various attractions.
Disney’s Fastpass7 means guests can
avoid long queues by giving them a one-hour
window when they can return to their
chosen attractions without having to wait in
a queue. For those waiting in the regular line,
Disney runs forecasting models that predict
waiting times at popular attractions, with
the output displayed for guests to see. This
means guests can decide whether to enter
the queue, return later or take a Fastpass
ticket8.
Making Magic With Digital Technologies
Improve Customer
Experience
Using Analytics
Enhance Operational
Efficiency
Taking a Data-Driven
Approach
Interactivity
Using Digital Tools
Across Channels
Personalizing
Using Connected
Products
Taking a Data-Driven Approach to
Operational Efficiency
The scale of Disney’s theme-park
operation is staggering. Each week,
Disney has to pay more than 80,000
cast members and schedule 240,000
shifts. In the words of Juan Gorricho,
Senior Manager, Merchandise Business
Intelligence and Analytics, “we need the
right cast members at the right place
at the right time, and serving the right
guest.” Following the implementation of
a rule-based, on-demand technology,
Disney’s accuracy in managing labor
resources improved by 20%. The project
paid for itself in one year, just from the
labor savings alone9.
Disney also applies analytics to
streamline back-house operations. For
instance, it uses forecasting models
to manage its garment inventory and
laundry. The forecast models ensure
sufficient garments are available for its
cast members while ensuring minimum
inventory levels and idle costumes on the
shelf10.
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The MyMagic+ initiative helped Disney accommodate 3,000 additional daily visitors.
Personalizing through Connected Products
Crunching visitor data to improve the customer experience is only one part of the Disney approach. Disney’s MyMagic+ initiative is a billion-dollar investment that is a combination of a website, a mobile application and a wristband that collectively allow visitors to customize their experience at a Disney park
(see Exhibit 1). The initiative has involved training 70,000 employees on new technology, equipping 28,000 hotel room doors with radio frequency readers, and installing scanners at its parks, hotels, shops, and other attractions.
The ‘magic’ starts with the booking process for Disney’s entertainment parks, where visitors can book tickets through the website or mobile applications that are available across platforms. Once the reservations are made, visitors receive a MagicBand – a wristband that is embedded with radio frequency identification (RFID) chips.
This band acts as an admission ticket, the key to the hotel room, a means of making purchases at many stores, and as a FastPass. The MagicBand – in tandem with mobile apps – give visitors a seamless experience. Using the MagicBand, guests can pre-arrange their visit for a number of attractions, including rides and events such as character meetings, parades and fireworks shows. To customize the guest experience, employees playing characters at the park can use hidden sensors within the bands to personally greet a child on his or her birthday11.
These bands are part of a new “vacation management system” that can track guests as they move through the park and analyze their purchasing habits. Unlocking these trends in preferences and habits is of great value to Disney. For instance, knowing where guests have shopped – and what items they have bought – means Disney can offer guests deals that are tailored to their specific interests.
Disney’s MyMagic+ is now rolled out to all resort guests staying at the company’s 35,000 hotel and vacation club rooms. The company has committed to spend over $1 billion on the initiative (see Exhibit 1 for more details). The early results are promising indeed. Disney was able to accommodate 3,000 additional daily visitors during the 2013 Christmas holiday season12 by effectively managing advance reservations for rides that are in high demand. Over 90% of visitors
Disney has invested over a billion dollars in its MyMagic+ technology initiative.
rated the band as excellent or very
good13. In 2013, theme parks made up a third of Disney’s $45 billion overall revenue and over 20% of its operating profit. Disney attracted over 132 million guests
in 201314.
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Using Digital to Create New Interactive Consumer Experiences Across Channels
The commitment to deliver a superior customer experience extends beyond theme parks. Disney has strived to find new ways for its customers to digitally interact with different parts of the Disney family.
As part of that approach, Disney gave its traditional bricks-and-mortar stores a high-tech makeover. For example, the store concept includes an in-store application for guests to customize their shopping experience
Figure 3: Redesigned Disney Store
Source: Disney Store Facebook Page
Disney’s store redesigns, including usage of digital kiosks, helped it boost sales and profit margins by 20%.
(see Figure 3). Using an interactive kiosk with a touch screen, users have the ability to navigate a 3-D view of all Disney Store and DisneyStore.com products and discover the latest Disney Store news via video clips, articles, and social media feeds15. The store revamps have helped boost profit margins by 20%, with over 90% of Disney Store guests in North America and Europe saying that the new store design has brought them closer to the Disney brand16. In the UK, the results have been more dramatic. In the four years since the overhaul, stores have made $761.6 million in revenue, which peaked at $200.4 million in 201217.
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Exhibit 1: MyMagic+ - A Multi-Channel, Multi-Platform Digital
Experience Initiative
Source: Company website
Disney’s MyMagic+ is a combination of a website, a mobile application and a wristband that collectively allow visitors to customize their experience at a Disney park. Visitors make reservations using MyDisneyExperience.com, where they can choose a place to stay, make dining reservations and schedule visit timings through FastPass+ (a system that allows guests a one hour window to return to their desired attractions without having to wait in a queue). The MagicBand has an embedded Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) chip and there are several long-range RFID readers across the park. The band can be used for a variety of use cases such as entering the park, or rides, or hotel room, or making purchases, among others. As Tom Staggs, Walt Disney Parks and Resort says, “It takes our cast members out of transactional mode with our guests and into an interaction mode”.
The bands are uniquely colored and monogrammed with each family member’s name so they do not get switched. Visitors can link up pictures taken at the park with their MagicBand and access them after their visit. In the future, more such revenue opportunities can be linked to the band. Disney has committed to spend over $1 billion on MyMagic+.
Source: Bloomberg Businessweek, “Disney Bets $1 Billion on Technology to Track Theme-Park Visitors”, March 2014;
Los Angeles Times, “Disney Parks chairman shows off Disney MagicBand”, May 2013
Disney’s MyMagic+ Initiative
Enables advance reservation in ridesRFID bands that unlock hotel rooms and enable personalized experiencesA mobile app for managing the visit experienceMagic BandsFastPass+ My Disney Experience
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How Does Disney Make Its Digital Magic?
Disney’s Board of Directors include top Internet industry executives from Facebook and Twitter.
Digitally-Savvy Leadership
Our research with the MIT Center for Digital Business has clearly established that digital transformation is a top- down exercise18. It is imperative that organizations wanting to transform digitally have digital-savvy leadership, including the board of directors19. Unlike many other boards, Disney ticks all the right boxes. Its board includes Jack Dorsey, Executive Chairman and Founder of Twitter; Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg; and former Sybase CEO, John Chen. As Chairman and CEO Bob Iger says, “The perspective he (Jack Dorsey) brings to Disney and its Board is extremely valuable, given our strategic priorities, which include utilizing the latest technologies and platforms to reach more people and to enhance the relationship we have with our
customers.20”
A Vision Where Technology Plays a Key Part
Disney’s CEO has always treated technology as an opportunity rather than a threat, saying, “I really believed the company should look at technology as a friend21”. This is the same line of thought that encouraged Disney to have
Figure 4: How Disney Delivers Magic
Source: Capgemini Consulting Analysis
Disney’s Digital RecipeStrong Digital LeadershipA DigitalVision An Analytics CultureAn Ongoing Investment In Digital
Our strategic priorities include utilizing the latest technologies and platforms to reach more people and to enhance the relationship we have with our customers.
- Bob Iger, Chairman & CEO, Disney
significant digital talent right at the top, at the board-level. Even before the current array of tech’s great and good, Disney had Apple founder Steve Jobs on its board. This was a signal of Bob Iger’s determination to master digital, as he explained: “Businesses are challenged left and right and if we did not get on board and challenge ourselves, we were going to get swept away. So, we had to swim with the current.22”
A Governance Structure that Drives an Organization-Wide Analytics Culture
To drive the use of analytics across the organization, Disney hosts an annual Disney Analytics & Optimization Summit. A key objective of the summit is to share new analytics project ideas and technologies within Disney and with other like-minded organizations. The event brings together people with analytical roles from across the company with other professionals from outside Disney. The event examines the feasibility of analytics initiatives across various Disney departments and how these entities could use analytics to transform areas such as forecasting, marketing, and revenue management.
Disney has created its digital magic using a number of key ingredients. These include strong digital leadership, a far-reaching vision, an analytics culture, and an ongoing investment in digital initiatives (see Figure 4).
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An Ongoing Investment in Digital
Disney is clearly determined to uncover new and innovative ways of engaging and enhancing the customer experience, using cutting-edge approaches.
Disney Research, for example, is an informal collaboration between the Walt Disney Company and various academic labs. Some of the areas that the labs focus on include speech and sound processing, artificial intelligence, machine learning, data mining, materials, displays, sensors, and embedded systems. Recent research includes tactile rendering of 3D features on touch surfaces, where an algorithm can simulate surface friction of a virtual object on a touch screen23. Another research project is using 3D Printing to produce interactive speakers of any shape24. This initiative dates back as far as 2008, signaling the company’s early determination to stay ahead of the
curve25.
I really believe the company should look at technology as a friend.
- Bob Iger, Chairman & CEO, Disney
Disney has also partnered with TechStars, a start-up accelerator. The idea is to identify a number of companies that will be offered access to the creative expertise and resources of Disney to create the next generation of entertainment products and experiences. The initiative was launched in June 2014 and currently encompasses 10 companies over a period of 15 weeks26. Participants include ChoreMonster, a company that has a suite of web and mobile apps that make regular chores fun for kids; Tyffon, a mobile app company that boasts over 25 million total downloads; and Spherro, which makes connected toys that use a combination of robots and software to create new gaming experiences.
Disney has always been about magic, right from its inception. And now, it is an organization that is fiercely determined to use digital transformation to maintain and enhance that tradition for its customers.
And it’s not an organization that is content with what it has achieved so far. In fact, it always has one eye on the future, as Bob Iger says: “Entertainment will be immeasurably enhanced with both virtual-reality experiences and augmented-reality experiences. Bringing us into created worlds and bringing created worlds into our world will fundamentally explode the boundaries of storytelling, unburdening the storyteller in ways we can’t yet imagine27.” And as long as Disney continues to embrace technology with such passion, they will continue to make digital magic across the world.
…Businesses are challenged left and right and if we did not get on board and challenge ourselves, we were going to get swept away. So, we had to swim with the current.
- Bob Iger, Chairman & CEO, Disney
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1 Wall Street Journal, “Disney’s Iger on the Future of Leisure: Technology Built on Storytelling”, July 2014
2 TechCrunch, “Disney Launches Disney Movies Anywhere, An iTunes-Integrated App Where Fans Can Build Their Movie Library”, February 2014
3 New York Times, “Disney’s Troubled Gaming Unit Finds Success With Infinity”, January 2014
4 ChiefExecutive.Net, “How Bob Iger Remade the House That Walt Built”, July 2014
5 INFORMS Roundtable, “How Analytics Enhance the Guest Experience at Walt Disney World”, 2012
6 CIO, “Disney World Parks and Resorts mines magic from business analytics”, November 2012
7 Fastpass - a system that allows guests a one hour window to return to their desired attractions without having to wait in a queue
8 INFORMS Roundtable, “How Analytics Enhance the Guest Experience at Walt Disney World”, 2012
9 Amdocs Blogs, “The Wonderful World of Disney Analytics”, June 2014
10 Informs, “Corporate Profile: How analytics enhance the guest experience at Walt Disney World”, October 2012
11 New York Times, “At Disney Parks, a Bracelet Meant to Build Loyalty (and Sales)”, January 2013
12 Bloomberg Businessweek, “Disney Bets $1 Billion on Technology to Track Theme-Park Visitors”, March 2014
13 Disney Q3 2014 Analyst Call
14 Themed Entertainment Association, “The Global Attractions Attendance Report”, 2014
15 DBTN, “Disney Store Celebrates Grand Opening of New Store Design”, June 2010
16 Office, “Disney Store - Re-imagining a retail experience”, 2014
17 Forbes, “Magical Makeover Drives Disney Store Revenue To $760 Million In The UK”, September 2014
18 Capgemini Consulting and MIT Center for Digital Business, “The Digital Advantage: How Digital Leaders Outperform their Peers in Every Industry”, November 2012
19 For more details, see – HBR Blogs, “It’s Time for Boards to Cross the Digital Divide”, July 2014
20 Company press release
21 HBR, “The HBR Interview: Technology, Tradition, and the Mouse”, July 2011
22 Recode, “Disruption “In Our Face” — Iger on Why Disney Needs Tech Heavies on Board More Than Ever”, January 2014
23 3D Tablets, “How Users Might Feel 3D Objects on Future iPads”, October 2013
24 Business Standard, “Now, 3-D printing to produce interactive speakers of any shape”, April 2014
25 Company website
26 Company website
27 Wall Street Journal, “Disney’s Iger on the Future of Leisure: Technology Built on Storytelling”, July 2014
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