There's no doubt technology is revolutionizing industries across the globe and leading us into the future and beyond. Tech Trends 2022 gives an overview of the technological developments in supply chain, electric vehicles, energy solutions, fashion and computing.
This e-book aims to keep you up-to-date with what’s up and coming in the technology sphere and provide valuable information to help you make the best sourcing decisions this year.
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Google Accel Report - SaaS India, Global SMB Market, $50B in 2025 #SaaSinIndi...Accel Partners India
#SaaSinIndia
A joint report released by Google & Accel Partners outlined the growth opportunity for Indian SaaS Startups as SaaS adoption by SMBs is set to overtake that by large enterprises. The report outlines that purpose built SaaS products will see hyper growth and adoption by SMBs, and will contribute to more than 75% of the public cloud revenues driving the global SaaS industry to $ 132B revenues by 2020, of which SMB SaaS is expected to reach $76B.
Top 8 digital transformation trends shaping 2021run_frictionless
In a world that’s increasingly dependent on digital, IT’s role is more critical than ever. To meet rising demands, organizations are accelerating their digital transformation. This report identifies the top 8 technology trends that will face CIOs, IT leaders, and organizations in their digital transformation journey in 2021.
https://runfrictionless.com/b2b-white-paper-service/
The 25 Most Beautiful B2B White Papers On The Planetrun_frictionless
Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Linkedin, and Docusign. Which company has the sexiest #B2B #whitepapers?
Cast your vote. Which one do you ❤️ ?
https://runfrictionless.com/blog/25-beautiful-b2b-white-papers/
https://runfrictionless.com/b2b-white-paper-service/
The document outlines Google's Cloud Adoption Framework, which provides a structured approach for organizations to assess their cloud maturity and plan their journey to the cloud. The framework includes the Cloud Maturity Scale, which measures an organization's readiness across four themes (Learn, Lead, Scale, Secure) and three phases (Tactical, Strategic, Transformational). It also includes epics which define the workstreams needed to progress through the phases. The framework helps organizations understand their current state, set goals, and implement a cloud adoption program tailored to their needs.
You can receive our Powerpoint slides by sharing this presentation and submitting your email at www.slidebooks.com | Digital Transformation Strategy Template and Training | By ex-Deloitte and McKinsey Consultants
Accenture migrated its data platform and over 50 analytics applications to Google Cloud to modernize its capabilities, increase cost efficiency, and enable insights faster. The migration involved moving hundreds of terabytes of data from the legacy system to Google Cloud's scalable architecture while ensuring no downtime. Applications were reimplemented to use cloud-native components and on-demand resources. This transformation reduced administrative overhead, improved cost efficiency through Google Cloud's pay-as-you-go model, and allowed Accenture to leverage other innovative solutions to meet evolving business needs.
China metaverse report by daxue consulting and ayo consultingDaxue Consulting
Tencent is well positioned to be a leader in digital content and the user experience within China's Metaverse. They have strong capabilities in gaming, social media, AI/ML, servers, digital economies and assets. Tencent has also invested in many international Metaverse companies and holds stakes in Epic Games, Snap, and Roblox. Moving forward, Tencent is developing VR/AR hardware to provide immersive interfaces for the Metaverse, in addition to their expertise in interactive digital content.
Google Accel Report - SaaS India, Global SMB Market, $50B in 2025 #SaaSinIndi...Accel Partners India
#SaaSinIndia
A joint report released by Google & Accel Partners outlined the growth opportunity for Indian SaaS Startups as SaaS adoption by SMBs is set to overtake that by large enterprises. The report outlines that purpose built SaaS products will see hyper growth and adoption by SMBs, and will contribute to more than 75% of the public cloud revenues driving the global SaaS industry to $ 132B revenues by 2020, of which SMB SaaS is expected to reach $76B.
Top 8 digital transformation trends shaping 2021run_frictionless
In a world that’s increasingly dependent on digital, IT’s role is more critical than ever. To meet rising demands, organizations are accelerating their digital transformation. This report identifies the top 8 technology trends that will face CIOs, IT leaders, and organizations in their digital transformation journey in 2021.
https://runfrictionless.com/b2b-white-paper-service/
The 25 Most Beautiful B2B White Papers On The Planetrun_frictionless
Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Linkedin, and Docusign. Which company has the sexiest #B2B #whitepapers?
Cast your vote. Which one do you ❤️ ?
https://runfrictionless.com/blog/25-beautiful-b2b-white-papers/
https://runfrictionless.com/b2b-white-paper-service/
The document outlines Google's Cloud Adoption Framework, which provides a structured approach for organizations to assess their cloud maturity and plan their journey to the cloud. The framework includes the Cloud Maturity Scale, which measures an organization's readiness across four themes (Learn, Lead, Scale, Secure) and three phases (Tactical, Strategic, Transformational). It also includes epics which define the workstreams needed to progress through the phases. The framework helps organizations understand their current state, set goals, and implement a cloud adoption program tailored to their needs.
You can receive our Powerpoint slides by sharing this presentation and submitting your email at www.slidebooks.com | Digital Transformation Strategy Template and Training | By ex-Deloitte and McKinsey Consultants
Accenture migrated its data platform and over 50 analytics applications to Google Cloud to modernize its capabilities, increase cost efficiency, and enable insights faster. The migration involved moving hundreds of terabytes of data from the legacy system to Google Cloud's scalable architecture while ensuring no downtime. Applications were reimplemented to use cloud-native components and on-demand resources. This transformation reduced administrative overhead, improved cost efficiency through Google Cloud's pay-as-you-go model, and allowed Accenture to leverage other innovative solutions to meet evolving business needs.
China metaverse report by daxue consulting and ayo consultingDaxue Consulting
Tencent is well positioned to be a leader in digital content and the user experience within China's Metaverse. They have strong capabilities in gaming, social media, AI/ML, servers, digital economies and assets. Tencent has also invested in many international Metaverse companies and holds stakes in Epic Games, Snap, and Roblox. Moving forward, Tencent is developing VR/AR hardware to provide immersive interfaces for the Metaverse, in addition to their expertise in interactive digital content.
Accenture Communications Industry Narrative Trend Shifts Signalsaccenture
The document discusses major shifts happening in the communications industry and identifies five signals of these shifts. The three major industry shifts are: 1) Customer re-imagination as life, work, learning and entertainment become more connected and centered around the home. 2) Business model re-invention as new growth strategies and partnerships are needed due to stagnating returns. 3) Technology re-volution as 5G, cloud, edge computing and other technologies open new opportunities for communications providers to transform into technology companies. The five signals highlighted are increased home connectivity demands, connectivity as an essential right, the need for new business models, expanded partnership strategies, and communications providers transforming into technology companies.
A Healthcare Digitization Framework: 5 StrategiesHealth Catalyst
While most consumer-oriented industries have turned to mobile-first, cloud-based platforms for consumer interaction, healthcare lags behind in digitization, particularly when it comes to self-service consumer engagement. As digital consumer interaction increasingly drives enterprise success, healthcare must join the modern digital playing field. To get there, organizations need to establish digital investment and enablement frameworks and can then follow five strategies for stable, scalable transformation:
Formally define “digital” for the organization.
Follow 10 guiding principles to support digital.
Divide technology into appropriate portfolios.
Develop an analogy to explain the integrated portfolio approach.
Strategically select vendor partners.
Digital Powers Consumer Durables: A $23 billion Opportunity by 2023Social Samosa
Capturing the growth of digital influence and key consumer insights in the consumer durables sector in India, Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and Google India released a report, ‘Digital Powers Consumer Durables: A $23 billion Opportunity by 2023’. Projecting a healthy growth rate for Consumer durables (Televisions, Refrigerators, Washing Machines, Air Conditioners, Microwaves, Water Purifiers & Small Kitchen Appliances), the report states that overall Industry will see a growth of 13% to reach $36Bn by 2023.
Account Based Marketing (ABM) is when you implement highly customized marketing campaigns where each account is considered to be a market of one. ABM uses the latest technology to help you send the right messages to influencers who are actively researching products like yours.
https://runfrictionless.com/b2b-white-paper-service/
Marketing to Account Based Marketing Better, Effective and Rewardingrun_frictionless
Account-based marketing is a practice that enables B2B marketers to drive more revenue by focusing their marketing and communications efforts on the accounts (companies) that have the most potential to become customers.
https://runfrictionless.com/b2b-white-paper-service/
Local Dynamos – emerging-market companies focused largely on their home markets - are beating both local state-owned companies and multinational corporations, thanks to savvy digital strategies and an ability to meet rising consumer expectations. MNCs need to understand how the Dynamos are rewriting the rules in emerging markets.
Microsoft: Digital Transformation SlidesVMware Tanzu
The old Microsoft had a fixed mindset, only releasing software every 3-5 years after the first service pack. They were out of touch with customers and missed market opportunities. With a new CEO, Satya Nadella, Microsoft shifted to a growth mindset, continuous improvement, learning from customers, and experimentation. They adopted DevOps practices like microservices, systems thinking to improve flow, amplifying feedback loops, and continual learning. Modern apps at Microsoft are now composed of loosely coupled microservices with business logic orchestrating microservices, allowing for earlier and more frequent releases in small batches through practices like DevOps.
G2 Crowd is a platform that lets businesses search for, compare reviews, price and buy software and other IT services — it likes to refer to itself as the “Amazon of business software”. It has raised $100 million in growth funding to date, and will begin to chip away at the business of companies like Gartner, IDC and Forrester.
How future-ready is your IT –Next Gen Tech Function.pdfYiannis Paraschos
The document discusses how companies can transform their IT functions into next generation tech functions that are future-ready. It outlines key tech impacts over the next ten years like cloud computing and data analytics. It also discusses common questions clients ask about digital skills, tech organization, and cybersecurity. The document recommends five characteristics companies should focus on: effective governance, world-class capabilities, agile working, modern platforms, and digital products/services. It describes how next gen tech functions can create value through metrics like customer satisfaction, IT cost reduction, and accelerated delivery. The document proposes conducting an assessment of a company's IT function across these areas to evaluate future-readiness.
AI in Insurance: How to Automate Insurance Claims Processing with Machine Lea...Skyl.ai
Insurance companies are looking at technology to solve complexity created by the presence of cumbersome processes and the presence of multiple entities like actuaries, support teams, and customers in the claim processing cycle.
Today, a lot of insurance companies are opting for Machine Learning to simplify and automate the processes to reduce fraudulent claims, predict underwriting risks, improve customer relationship management. This automated insurance claim process can remove excessive human intervention or manual errors and can report the claim, capture damage, update the system, and communicate with the customers by itself. This leads to an effortless process enabling clients to file their claims without much hassle.
In this webinar, we will discuss how insurers are increasingly relying on machine learning to improve claim processing efficiency and increase ROI.
What you will learn:
. Deep dive into how insurance companies are adopting AI
. Discuss prominent industry use cases
. Live demo of vehicle damage assessment for insurance claims management
Augmented Analytics and Automation in the Age of the Data ScientistWhereScape
At DAMA Day NYC, WhereScape's CTO Neil Barton spoke about the automation of data infrastructure as a necessary component to effectively enable the citizen data scientist and augmented analytics.
Neil also discussed how AI/ML can be used to recommend data ingestion pipelines and models in either supervised or unsupervised paradigms.
Generative AI is a branch of AI that aims to enable machines to produce new and original content. Unlike traditional AI systems, which rely on predefined rules and patterns, generative AI employs advanced algorithms and neural networks to generate outputs that autonomously imitate human creativity and decision-making.
The Ecommerce Trends Every D2C Brand Needs to KnowTinuiti
Scaling your Direct-to-Consumer (D2C) brand requires an ever-growing toolbox, which includes first-party data, lifecycle tools like SMS messaging and loyalty programs, buttoned-up fulfillment and omnichannel marketing strategies, and a keen understanding of ecommerce trends.
The good news? Our subject matter experts, plus experts from across the industry, shared all the knowledge you need to grow and scale your D2C business in 2022.
COVID-19’s uneven trajectory has created a slower-than-expected rebound in urban travel worldwide. Some mobility modes, however, are poised to exceed pre-pandemic levels. BCG provides a breakdown of recovery levels in urban mobility by region and mode--and over time.
e-Conomy SEA 2021: Kỷ nguyên số của Đông Nam ÁMarketingTrips
The document discusses how digital consumption has become ingrained as a way of life in Southeast Asia. Early adopters have deepened their usage of digital services, consuming four more services on average than before the pandemic. Additionally, 60 million new consumers joined the digital economy since the pandemic started, and 90% of those who tried a new service in 2020 continue using it in 2021. This indicates that new consumer behavior patterns driven by the pandemic are likely to persist long-term.
This document provides an executive summary of a study by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) on the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) sector. It finds that while FMCGs historically drove strong value creation, their performance has lagged peers in recent years. Five emerging disruptions will define the next era for FMCGs: amplified consumer expectations, erosion of scale advantages, focus on social impact, radical channel shifts, and an AI-powered business revolution. To succeed, FMCGs must follow five strategic imperatives: become agile portfolio managers, reinvent demand models, elevate operating models, digitize capabilities, and inspire with purpose.
Pursuing Customer Inspired Growth is the third presentation in A.T. Kearney's 2017 IIA series on taking difficult steps towards growth. The presentation focuses on pursuing customer-inspired growth as an answer to companies' growth imperative. It discusses traditional growth approaches and their limitations, and proposes becoming truly customer-centric by focusing on "blockbuster" customer experiences that are critical, frequent, and high in emotional value. The presentation outlines A.T. Kearney's methodology for discovering blockbusters, designing customer propositions around them, delivering proofs-of-concept, and driving organization-wide adoption through change management best practices.
Revue de presse IoT / Data du 19/02/2017Romain Bochet
Bonjour,
Voici la revue de presse IoT/data/energie du 19 février 2017. Au sommaire :
- Why IoT is key to industrial energy efficiency
- How Technology Influences the Future of Energy Management
- Disruption at the Edge: IoT Transforming Energy Grids
- Arkados Partners with SparkFund to Offer Lighting-as-a-Service To Commercial and Industrial Customers
- IoT And AI: Improving Customer Satisfaction
- Flutura raises US$7.5M Series A to provide industrial IoT to engineering, energy firms
- IoT Tech Expo: Convergence of Tech, Business Model Innovation, Collaboration and Smart Cities
- Sigfox to Transform Global Asset Tracking with Spot’it, a Low Cost GPS-free Geolocation Service
Organizations must take a transformative approach to climate change by identifying opportunities for decarbonization and value creation beyond emissions reduction alone. This requires considering implications for business from the net-zero industrial revolution using a systems perspective. Sustainable decision making at the portfolio level and key enablers for sustainable IT operations are areas that can help organizations mitigate climate losses and capture value during the transition to a low-carbon economy.
Accenture Communications Industry Narrative Trend Shifts Signalsaccenture
The document discusses major shifts happening in the communications industry and identifies five signals of these shifts. The three major industry shifts are: 1) Customer re-imagination as life, work, learning and entertainment become more connected and centered around the home. 2) Business model re-invention as new growth strategies and partnerships are needed due to stagnating returns. 3) Technology re-volution as 5G, cloud, edge computing and other technologies open new opportunities for communications providers to transform into technology companies. The five signals highlighted are increased home connectivity demands, connectivity as an essential right, the need for new business models, expanded partnership strategies, and communications providers transforming into technology companies.
A Healthcare Digitization Framework: 5 StrategiesHealth Catalyst
While most consumer-oriented industries have turned to mobile-first, cloud-based platforms for consumer interaction, healthcare lags behind in digitization, particularly when it comes to self-service consumer engagement. As digital consumer interaction increasingly drives enterprise success, healthcare must join the modern digital playing field. To get there, organizations need to establish digital investment and enablement frameworks and can then follow five strategies for stable, scalable transformation:
Formally define “digital” for the organization.
Follow 10 guiding principles to support digital.
Divide technology into appropriate portfolios.
Develop an analogy to explain the integrated portfolio approach.
Strategically select vendor partners.
Digital Powers Consumer Durables: A $23 billion Opportunity by 2023Social Samosa
Capturing the growth of digital influence and key consumer insights in the consumer durables sector in India, Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and Google India released a report, ‘Digital Powers Consumer Durables: A $23 billion Opportunity by 2023’. Projecting a healthy growth rate for Consumer durables (Televisions, Refrigerators, Washing Machines, Air Conditioners, Microwaves, Water Purifiers & Small Kitchen Appliances), the report states that overall Industry will see a growth of 13% to reach $36Bn by 2023.
Account Based Marketing (ABM) is when you implement highly customized marketing campaigns where each account is considered to be a market of one. ABM uses the latest technology to help you send the right messages to influencers who are actively researching products like yours.
https://runfrictionless.com/b2b-white-paper-service/
Marketing to Account Based Marketing Better, Effective and Rewardingrun_frictionless
Account-based marketing is a practice that enables B2B marketers to drive more revenue by focusing their marketing and communications efforts on the accounts (companies) that have the most potential to become customers.
https://runfrictionless.com/b2b-white-paper-service/
Local Dynamos – emerging-market companies focused largely on their home markets - are beating both local state-owned companies and multinational corporations, thanks to savvy digital strategies and an ability to meet rising consumer expectations. MNCs need to understand how the Dynamos are rewriting the rules in emerging markets.
Microsoft: Digital Transformation SlidesVMware Tanzu
The old Microsoft had a fixed mindset, only releasing software every 3-5 years after the first service pack. They were out of touch with customers and missed market opportunities. With a new CEO, Satya Nadella, Microsoft shifted to a growth mindset, continuous improvement, learning from customers, and experimentation. They adopted DevOps practices like microservices, systems thinking to improve flow, amplifying feedback loops, and continual learning. Modern apps at Microsoft are now composed of loosely coupled microservices with business logic orchestrating microservices, allowing for earlier and more frequent releases in small batches through practices like DevOps.
G2 Crowd is a platform that lets businesses search for, compare reviews, price and buy software and other IT services — it likes to refer to itself as the “Amazon of business software”. It has raised $100 million in growth funding to date, and will begin to chip away at the business of companies like Gartner, IDC and Forrester.
How future-ready is your IT –Next Gen Tech Function.pdfYiannis Paraschos
The document discusses how companies can transform their IT functions into next generation tech functions that are future-ready. It outlines key tech impacts over the next ten years like cloud computing and data analytics. It also discusses common questions clients ask about digital skills, tech organization, and cybersecurity. The document recommends five characteristics companies should focus on: effective governance, world-class capabilities, agile working, modern platforms, and digital products/services. It describes how next gen tech functions can create value through metrics like customer satisfaction, IT cost reduction, and accelerated delivery. The document proposes conducting an assessment of a company's IT function across these areas to evaluate future-readiness.
AI in Insurance: How to Automate Insurance Claims Processing with Machine Lea...Skyl.ai
Insurance companies are looking at technology to solve complexity created by the presence of cumbersome processes and the presence of multiple entities like actuaries, support teams, and customers in the claim processing cycle.
Today, a lot of insurance companies are opting for Machine Learning to simplify and automate the processes to reduce fraudulent claims, predict underwriting risks, improve customer relationship management. This automated insurance claim process can remove excessive human intervention or manual errors and can report the claim, capture damage, update the system, and communicate with the customers by itself. This leads to an effortless process enabling clients to file their claims without much hassle.
In this webinar, we will discuss how insurers are increasingly relying on machine learning to improve claim processing efficiency and increase ROI.
What you will learn:
. Deep dive into how insurance companies are adopting AI
. Discuss prominent industry use cases
. Live demo of vehicle damage assessment for insurance claims management
Augmented Analytics and Automation in the Age of the Data ScientistWhereScape
At DAMA Day NYC, WhereScape's CTO Neil Barton spoke about the automation of data infrastructure as a necessary component to effectively enable the citizen data scientist and augmented analytics.
Neil also discussed how AI/ML can be used to recommend data ingestion pipelines and models in either supervised or unsupervised paradigms.
Generative AI is a branch of AI that aims to enable machines to produce new and original content. Unlike traditional AI systems, which rely on predefined rules and patterns, generative AI employs advanced algorithms and neural networks to generate outputs that autonomously imitate human creativity and decision-making.
The Ecommerce Trends Every D2C Brand Needs to KnowTinuiti
Scaling your Direct-to-Consumer (D2C) brand requires an ever-growing toolbox, which includes first-party data, lifecycle tools like SMS messaging and loyalty programs, buttoned-up fulfillment and omnichannel marketing strategies, and a keen understanding of ecommerce trends.
The good news? Our subject matter experts, plus experts from across the industry, shared all the knowledge you need to grow and scale your D2C business in 2022.
COVID-19’s uneven trajectory has created a slower-than-expected rebound in urban travel worldwide. Some mobility modes, however, are poised to exceed pre-pandemic levels. BCG provides a breakdown of recovery levels in urban mobility by region and mode--and over time.
e-Conomy SEA 2021: Kỷ nguyên số của Đông Nam ÁMarketingTrips
The document discusses how digital consumption has become ingrained as a way of life in Southeast Asia. Early adopters have deepened their usage of digital services, consuming four more services on average than before the pandemic. Additionally, 60 million new consumers joined the digital economy since the pandemic started, and 90% of those who tried a new service in 2020 continue using it in 2021. This indicates that new consumer behavior patterns driven by the pandemic are likely to persist long-term.
This document provides an executive summary of a study by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) on the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) sector. It finds that while FMCGs historically drove strong value creation, their performance has lagged peers in recent years. Five emerging disruptions will define the next era for FMCGs: amplified consumer expectations, erosion of scale advantages, focus on social impact, radical channel shifts, and an AI-powered business revolution. To succeed, FMCGs must follow five strategic imperatives: become agile portfolio managers, reinvent demand models, elevate operating models, digitize capabilities, and inspire with purpose.
Pursuing Customer Inspired Growth is the third presentation in A.T. Kearney's 2017 IIA series on taking difficult steps towards growth. The presentation focuses on pursuing customer-inspired growth as an answer to companies' growth imperative. It discusses traditional growth approaches and their limitations, and proposes becoming truly customer-centric by focusing on "blockbuster" customer experiences that are critical, frequent, and high in emotional value. The presentation outlines A.T. Kearney's methodology for discovering blockbusters, designing customer propositions around them, delivering proofs-of-concept, and driving organization-wide adoption through change management best practices.
Revue de presse IoT / Data du 19/02/2017Romain Bochet
Bonjour,
Voici la revue de presse IoT/data/energie du 19 février 2017. Au sommaire :
- Why IoT is key to industrial energy efficiency
- How Technology Influences the Future of Energy Management
- Disruption at the Edge: IoT Transforming Energy Grids
- Arkados Partners with SparkFund to Offer Lighting-as-a-Service To Commercial and Industrial Customers
- IoT And AI: Improving Customer Satisfaction
- Flutura raises US$7.5M Series A to provide industrial IoT to engineering, energy firms
- IoT Tech Expo: Convergence of Tech, Business Model Innovation, Collaboration and Smart Cities
- Sigfox to Transform Global Asset Tracking with Spot’it, a Low Cost GPS-free Geolocation Service
Organizations must take a transformative approach to climate change by identifying opportunities for decarbonization and value creation beyond emissions reduction alone. This requires considering implications for business from the net-zero industrial revolution using a systems perspective. Sustainable decision making at the portfolio level and key enablers for sustainable IT operations are areas that can help organizations mitigate climate losses and capture value during the transition to a low-carbon economy.
Research analysis on future of supply chain, information gathered through secondary research, articles, press releases, etc.
Digital transformation is one of the important aspect while predicting the future of supply chain management
Major trends that will derive the change in current supply chain are growth in urbanization, e Commerce, congestion, changing consumer behavior and the utilization of containers
2019 Global Report Digital transformation | Schneider ElectricMassimo Talia
The world is heading toward a digitized future. Already, an entire generation has grown up immersed in the digital world. Digital transformation — or the widespread adoption of digital technologies to disrupt business models, create efficiencies, and enhance customer experience — is reinventing core aspects of human existence, from homes to industry, buildings to cloud, and beyond. The digital transformation of energy management and automation lies at the core of this journey, enabling the emergence of a new landscape of energy, a paradigm shift for the industry, and a revolutionized experience.
The document discusses how banks are increasingly adopting cloud-native approaches to application development and deployment to improve business agility, customer experiences, and operational efficiency. It outlines three common uses cases driving cloud-native adoption: 1) transforming the business for greater agility and flexibility, 2) optimizing operational efficiency using public cloud infrastructure, and 3) adopting an API ecosystem. While cloud-native approaches provide benefits, banks face challenges integrating legacy infrastructure and cultural changes. The document recommends banks assess their application portfolio to determine what can be lifted to the cloud, rewritten for cloud, or retired.
Our Global Chemical Industry Leader Frank Jenner explores the trends and drivers that will shape the chemical industry of tomorrow in our latest Chemical Market Outlook.
Supply chain executives are looking to emerging technologies to help make their supply chains more resilient, relevant to customers, and responsible. The document discusses results from a survey of 663 supply chain executives on their top technology priorities and the impact of technologies. It then summarizes three technology trends from the Accenture Technology Vision 2021 research: 1) Architecting a better future by optimizing technology architecture to execute corporate strategy; 2) The power of digital twins and mirrored worlds to represent the physical world digitally; and 3) Democratization of technology which empowers all employees to be innovators.
NEW BUSINESS MODELS & DIGITALIZATION IN THE ENERGY SECTORArjun Reghu
This paper investigates the key technologies that underpin the digitisation of energy and examines their potential impacts.
Understand the effects new technologies will have on the current energy system,
The new challenges they will pose, and the policies and regulatory measures which will assist in making them a success.
The document discusses UtiliVATION, a series of innovation frameworks and market insights from Indigo Advisory Group that provides innovation analysis and market intelligence for utilities. UtiliVATION includes an innovation prioritization matrix, business case evaluation process, and commercial availability analysis. Indigo's approach using UtiliVATION aims to rapidly deploy innovative projects and identify investment opportunities through analyzing emerging technologies and their adoption across the utility value chain.
This document summarizes an editorial and newsletter from a company called Business & Decision. It discusses Business & Decision's focus on business intelligence, CRM, e-business and cloud computing. It highlights the company's green datacenter and how it helps clients with big data and digital transformation projects. The newsletter discusses Business & Decision's recent projects, partnerships, and recognition including an award for one of its directors.
Water po v transforming to operate in a digital world_finalRobert Cade
The document discusses how the Open Water Programme in the UK will transform water company operations and create a new competitive retail market. It states that companies who embrace digital technologies and operate as "Digital Masters" will have a competitive advantage. It identifies four key themes for companies to adapt to - business and technical alignment, customer centricity, leveraging data, and operating with pace and agility. Water companies will need to invest in digital capabilities and change their operating models to compete in the new retail market environment before 2017.
Smart Cities and Intelligent Buildings.pptxReetaDutta1
The document summarizes a report by the Continental Automated Buildings Association (CABA) about smart cities and intelligent buildings. CABA is an international industry association dedicated to connected home and building technologies. The report discusses major drivers of smart cities like urbanization, environmental challenges, and new technologies. It also outlines key elements of smart city development like vertical applications, enabling technologies, and the role of intelligent buildings. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the adoption of technologies that improve indoor air quality, energy management, and remote building management. The report provides recommendations and best practices for using intelligent building technologies to address post-pandemic challenges.
The document summarizes a report by the Continental Automated Buildings Association (CABA) about smart cities and intelligent buildings. CABA promotes connected home and building technologies. The report discusses major drivers of smart cities like urbanization, aging infrastructure, and new technologies. It outlines key aspects of smart city development including vertical applications, enabling technologies, and the role of intelligent buildings. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated trends like remote working and demand for touchless buildings solutions. The report recommends technologies that can help address post-pandemic challenges in areas like indoor air quality, occupancy monitoring, and digital twins.
ABSTRACT: Digitalization helps transform an entire industry ranging from business processes to customer relationships. It is a catalyst which will promote innovation and transform the operation of the chemicals industry. There is a wide range of opportunities in which the chemical industry can use digital technologies to create new and sustainable advantage. This paper provides a brief overview of the opportunities and challenges of digitalization in chemical industry
The document discusses 5 technology trends for 2015:
1. The Internet of Me - Personalization and contextual experiences enabled by big data analytics and connected devices.
2. Outcome Economy - Hardware is producing tangible results through sensors, M2M standards, and ubiquitous bandwidth.
3. Platform (R)evolution - Digital platforms are redefining industries through the rise of platform companies, cloud economics, and APIs.
4. Intelligent Enterprise - Businesses are leveraging huge data volumes, decreasing storage costs, and advances in data science for smarter systems.
5. Workforce Reimagined - Humans and machines are collaborating through maturing technologies enabling natural interactions and improved efficiency.
Indigo Advisory Group provides strategy, technology, and innovation services to utilities and energy companies to help them manage the transformation of the energy industry. This document highlights trends impacting utilities, emerging strategies, new technologies being invested in, and Indigo's services including utility analytics, emerging technologies assessments, grid transformation support, and strategic consulting. Indigo employs tools like UtiliAPP to help utilities prioritize analytics investments and emerges as an expert advisor for utilities navigating uncertainty created by new technologies and regulations.
Transformation Tools for Utilities | Indigo Advisory GroupDavid Groarke
This pivotal moment of transformation in the utility industry is providing large scale and unprecedented opportunity for traditional power providers and those operating at the edge of the grid. In this capability primer, we highlight some of the broader industry technology trends and the resulting tools, approaches and insights that Indigo Advisory Group employs to help utilities navigate uncertainty and create the right strategies.
The document discusses how the data center industry in Asia is supporting rapid digital growth and innovation. It notes that Asia outpaces other regions in new data center deployments. The data center colocation market in Asia-Pacific is expected to grow significantly due to factors like government support, infrastructure expansion, and investments from cloud providers. Ensuring sustainable growth and security of data centers will be important as digital adoption increases in Asia.
The document outlines a methodology for developing a 10-year smart grid roadmap from 2012-2022. It describes using primary research through industry interviews and secondary research by reviewing documents from governments, research institutions, and companies. The roadmap will identify milestones for smart grid stakeholders and the drivers and challenges of smart grid development over the next decade.
Cosa hanno in comune un mattoncino Lego e la backdoor XZ?Speck&Tech
ABSTRACT: A prima vista, un mattoncino Lego e la backdoor XZ potrebbero avere in comune il fatto di essere entrambi blocchi di costruzione, o dipendenze di progetti creativi e software. La realtà è che un mattoncino Lego e il caso della backdoor XZ hanno molto di più di tutto ciò in comune.
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BIO: Sostenitrice del software libero e dei formati standard e aperti. È stata un membro attivo dei progetti Fedora e openSUSE e ha co-fondato l'Associazione LibreItalia dove è stata coinvolta in diversi eventi, migrazioni e formazione relativi a LibreOffice. In precedenza ha lavorato a migrazioni e corsi di formazione su LibreOffice per diverse amministrazioni pubbliche e privati. Da gennaio 2020 lavora in SUSE come Software Release Engineer per Uyuni e SUSE Manager e quando non segue la sua passione per i computer e per Geeko coltiva la sua curiosità per l'astronomia (da cui deriva il suo nickname deneb_alpha).
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Tech-Trends-2022.pdf
1.
2. Tech Trends 2022
Introduction
Tech Trends 2022 aims to help smart buyers navigate the
changing landscape of logistics and market demand in
2022. Our team of analysts tackle the key technological
developments in supply chain, electric vehicles, energy
solutions, fashion and computing.
By keeping buyers up to date with what’s up and coming
in the technology sphere, Global Sources aims to provide
valuable information that will help make the best sourcing
decisions this year.
1 Supply Chain Tech Trends
3 New Energy Solutions
7 Key Computing Power Trends to Watch
10 What’s Super Charging the Electric Vehicle Market?
13 Internet of Things in Fashion
16 About Global Sources
CONTENTS
3. Supply Chain
Tech Trends
2022 will see
accelerated
investment in
supply chain tech as
businesses worldwide
aim to enhance their
ability to plan and
manage throughout
the chain. More advanced
digital enablers such as cognitive
planning, AI-based predictive analytics,
and advanced track-and-trace methods will be key elements.
That’s the outlook according to KPMG, whose report Six
key trends impacting global supply chains in 2022 stated
that “many supply chain managers are currently troubled
by a lack of visibility throughout their extended supply
chains, as there are so many nodes and participants within
the extended chain. Leading organizations are using
advanced technologies to significantly improve visibility
and thereby become far more responsive
to major disruption and variability
within their domestic, regional and
global supply chains.”
KPMG outlines several key
considerations for companies tackling
today’s logistical challenges, first among
which is sufficient operational flexibility
to adjust in real time to changes in trade
flows and regulations, the continuing
effects of the COVID-19 pandemic,
and broader geopolitical issues. The
consultancy also notes the importance
of deriving actionable data from digital
operations, supplier partnerships, and
ongoing risk monitoring.
Used effectively, technology can help reduce
operating costs, provide improved visibility
throughout the supply chain and diversify business
responses to customer demands.
KPMG recommends that companies focus on building a
network of trusted customers, supply-chain partners and
suppliers to manage disruptions and support business
continuity: “Cultivating a resilient supply chain means that
the organization can be better at anticipating, reacting and
planning against the unexpected by enabling cross-functional
integration and collaboration with its ecosystem of vendors.”
Industry 4.0 is expected to break new ground in 2022, though
as yet remaining outside the mainstream, with machine
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4. learning using IoT and social media data to automate
decisions and processes.
Writing in Forbes, SAP analyst Richard Howells states that
predictive analytics will empower employees to make more
informed, real-time decisions, and drive new business models.
“From smart factories featuring 5G, greater connectivity and
enhanced AI solutions, to smart products and assets across
the supply chain, Industry 4.0 has a lot to offer companies
who have invested in these technologies,” Howells writes.
“The coming year will bring greater focus on companies using
Industry 4.0 within their factories, across the supply chain of
smart assets, and into the hands of consumers and customers
leveraging the smart products and devices it enables.”
Howells expects supply-chain tech to help alleviate
worker shortages and improve retention by improving the
productivity and decision-making of existing employees,
freeing them up from repetitive tasks and allowing them to
focus on more complex problems and key decisions.
“There is a movement to unify supply-chain tech from
eCommerce to post-purchase experience, and from first
mile to last mile,” writes Deborah Laloum, a market strategist
at logistics solutions provider Bringg. “In order to keep up,
processes require automation, systems and data need to
be integrated, workers need to have new resources, and
managers need to have better supply chain visibility. It
is important that whatever SCM technology businesses
use will integrate with the business’ existing supply chain
systems, from the TMS and WMS all the way down to
inventory management and CRM systems. A robust, two-way
data synchronization ensures that every supply chain and
business platform, as well as all team members, are aligned at
all times.”
Takeaways for buyers
• You can and should demand more visibility throughout
supply chain – if your current supplier can’t or won’t
comply, their competitors will.
• When researchinzg supply-chain platforms and
solutions, focus on the needs of each key decision-maker
in the company.
• Partnership is a two-way street. Talk to your suppliers
not only about the data they can provide for you, but
what information you can share with them to improve
visibility and risk management through the supply-
chain for both parties.
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5. New Energy Solutions
Demand for energy will continue to grow with population and
economic activity, and in a fossil-fuel based power generation
system, this will lead to even greater planet-warming carbon
emission. In 2021, emitted carbon dioxide rose again after
falling by 5.4 percent in 2020 due to the slowdown in
business operations and transportation as a result of the
pandemic. In the US alone, the estimated increase was
6 percent, based on data from the US Energy Information
Administration and is projected to go up further by 2 percent
in 2022.
To curb this upward trend from hitting record-high levels
again as it did in 2019, worldwide efforts for decarbonization
are underway.
On the power production and generation side, they are not
limited to restarting solar and wind farm projects delayed
by the pandemic and building greater renewable energy
capacity through the addition of more such installations.
Also being tapped is nuclear energy. Albeit controversial and
not falling under the renewable category, nuclear has zero
direct carbon emission. In fact, it is the world’s second-largest
source of low-carbon power, according to the International
Energy Agency.
Carbon-neutralizing technologies are another. “Carbon
capture is a suite of technologies used to decarbonize
emissions-producing sources of energy as well as industrial
processes like steel production, where electrification has
its limits,” according to international think tank Global CCS
Institute. “This, in turn, can lower the life-cycle carbon
footprint of solar and wind power.”
As the world tackles climate change, we'll see continued advances in
batteries, as well as innovations in nuclear power and green hydrogen.
In pursuit of clean & renewable energy
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6. Harvesting energy from these sources needs equally clean
technologies for storage to be viable. Batteries based on
lithium chemistries are the most widely adopted solutions
for small electronic devices and electric vehicles alike. They
replaced NiCd types, which although robust and work well
in extreme conditions are toxic and carcinogenic due to
the cadmium content. “But just because Li-ion batteries
are commonly used in consumer electronics and EVs, that
doesn’t necessarily mean they’re the best option for storing
electricity in a renewable energy-dependent grid,” according
to Bianca Nogrady in an article featured on Ensia, a solutions-
focused media outlet run by the Institute on the Environment
at the University of Minnesota.
Batteries
Storing energy for conversion to usable power later must
be aligned with the sustainability trend. Research and
development initiatives have been going on for years, with
a collective goal of producing batteries that can provide
power in an instant and for longer periods. They are driven by
judicious use of resources, covering technologies in mining,
extracting and disposal.
Breakthroughs in this front are many and awaiting
investments to make them a commercial reality. They
include better alternatives to current materials and chemical
compositions with battery performance-enhancing benefits
yet having minimal impact on the environment.
In terms of anode materials, there are substitutes such as
graphene to lithium and silicon to graphite, according to the
compilation of
discoveries on UK
gadget website
Pocket-lint by
its editorial
director
Chris Hall.
An example
is Samsung’s
“graphene
balls,” which
can increase
Li-ion battery
capacity by
45 percent and
reduce recharging
from one hour to 12
minutes. Electric car
battery manufacturer Grabat,
meanwhile, came up with a version
that can go the distance of up to about 800km
or 500 miles on a single charge.
Research into silicon, said to have 10 times the capacity of
graphite, has yielded other methods of producing it. From the
University of Eastern Finland, this entails the use of a hybrid
anode made from mesoporous silicon microparticles and
carbon nanotubes and then producing silicon from barley
husk ash. The combination boosts battery performance.
In the University of California Riverside, sand is tapped to
make pure silicon, a technique adopted by battery tech
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7. startup Silanano, which is working with Daimler and BMW.
Such batteries are expected to deliver 20 percent better
performance, which can still go up further to 40 percent. They
can be manufactured using existing facilities for Li-ion kinds
as well.
There are also developments in making Li-ion batteries
without cobalt, a common cathode material. “Cobalt is the
least abundant and most expensive component in battery
cathodes,” said Arumugam Manthiram, a professor at the
Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering and director
of the Texas Materials Institute. His team swapped cobalt with
89 percent nickel while addressing issues associated with this
change. SVOLT, a spin-off company from China’s Great Wall
Motors, also came up with cobalt-free EV batteries that can
handle up to 800km or 500 miles and is said to be working
with a large European manufacturer, according to Hall.
IBM Research has taken this a step further by dropping not
only cobalt but nickel as well and using a new chemistry
based on materials extracted from seawater. The company,
which is working with Mercedes-Benz and other carmakers,
said that this battery’s manufacturing cost is low but
performance exceeds Li-ion counterparts in terms of power,
energy density and charging time.
Other breakthroughs include Monash University’s Li-S
batteries that can power smartphones for five days, the
University of California’s gold nanowires in a gel electrolyte that
will not degrade from recharging even at more than 200,000
times, Toyota’s solid-state batteries with sulfide superionic
conductors, Power Japan Plus’ Ryden dual carbon battery with
20 times faster charge, lithium-free sodium-ion batteries from
Japan, and Harvard University’s and Stanford University’s liquid
flow batteries for wind and solar power systems.
There are many others being developed further for
commercial viability. What this means is battery technologies
are finally catching up and will enable greater strides toward
greening of the power industry.
Nuclear power
There are clear advantages and disadvantages to using
nuclear energy, so how do those stack up against the global
target of reducing carbon emissions that continue to heat
up the planet? Recent incidents in Europe’s largest nuclear
plant in Ukraine have brought to the fore the possibility of
catastrophe as happened in the Three Mile Island, Chernobyl
and Fukushima disasters.
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8. Going by statistics, nuclear power supplies 10 percent of the
world’s electricity, generated from about 440 power reactors,
and is the second largest source of low-carbon power, with
a 28 percent share in 2019, according to the World Nuclear
Association. Nearly 20 percent of electricity in the US comes
from nuclear power. The country is also the largest producer
in the world, with a share of more than 30 percent.
“The potential of nuclear energy as a part of a broad,
low carbon-generation portfolio is becoming clearer to
those governments that want to take action on climate
change,” said Jonathan Cobb, the organization’s senior
communication manager.
Bill Gates, a proponent and an investor in this technology,
said in an interview quoted by CNBC, “Nuclear has actually
been safer than any other source of [power] generation.
You know, coal plants, coal particulate, natural gas pipelines
blowing up. The deaths per unit of power on these other
approaches are — are far higher.” He cited the dire need
for clean energy and the new innovations for safety and
affordability. The CNBC report also said that nuclear energy
innovation was also part of President Joe Biden’s campaign
pledge for climate change.
The nonprofit group Nuclear Information and Resource
Service, on the other hand, listed contentious issues
such as “radioactive waste and pollution, nuclear safety,
environmental justice and the costs of nuclear energy,” a view
shared by opponents of this power source. It is proposing
instead a shift to a 100 percent renewable energy system.
Green hydrogen
Hydrogen is an abundant
resource, a gas found
everywhere in molecules such
as water and air, and biomass.
It can also be extracted from
fossil fuels, including natural gas, coal and oil, and this is
the current practice. Such hydrogen is called brown if from
coal or lignite, or gray if harvested through steam methane
reformation, and both processes are “not exactly carbon-
friendly,” according to Greentech Media.
To make it green, one method is to produce it through
electrolysis using renewables, including biomass, and water.
There is also carbon capture and sequestration (CCS)
technology to make it a zero-carbon energy source.
Interest in this resource is rising. “We cannot electrify
everything,” said Giles Dickson, CEO of WindEurope. “Some
industrial processes and heavy transport will have to run on gas.
And renewable hydrogen is the best gas. It is completely clean. It
will be affordable with renewables being so cheap now.”
Conclusion
The search for clean energy and renewable energy, however
disparate the paths may be, will eventually converge on a
green future. Choosing and using both now based on available
technologies and safeguards, with innovations pursued further
down the line, is already choosing a way forward to achieving
carbon neutrality and addressing climate change.
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9. Key computing power trends to watch
Why enterprises are moving to the cloud, plus the advancements of
5G and the future of 6G.
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Cloud Technology
Cloud computing is set to further
expand at an exponential rate this year
and beyond, due to the growing
popularity of remote work
influenced by the COVID-19
pandemic, rise of the gig
economy, and the urgent
need of enterprises to scale
their Big Data. The market
is expected to grow from
US$371.4 billion in 2020 to
US$832.1 billion by 2025, at a
CAGR of 17.5 percent.
Small- to large-scale
businesses are integrating
their programs and storing
valuable data through cloud
services. Organizations gain
benefits on security, boosted work
and space efficiency, sustainability,
cost-reduction in IT, file protection
and having a competitive edge against
companies who are lagging behind. Dell
reports that companies that invest in the Cloud
enjoy up to 53 percent of revenue growth
compared to their competitors. As
Forrester senior analyst Tracy Woo
puts it bluntly: “It’s well understood
using cloud is necessary to stay
competitive.”
Despite the understandable
concerns of organizations
having their programs, files
and precious data stored
elsewhere instead of onsite,
doing so is actually safer
in the long run. The priority
of companies offering
cloud-based solutions is to
skillfully monitor their client’s
security. Major cloud providers
like Amazon Web Services
and Microsoft Azure meet all
data regulation and compliance
requirements. According to Salesforce,
cloud-based services provide quick data
recovery for all kinds of emergency scenarios,
10. 8 Tech Trends 2022
from natural disasters to power outages. Entrusting the
security to the cloud vendor is more efficient compared
to simply delegating the task to the IT department, which
already deals with various IT concerns within the company.
Unfortunately, it is also not uncommon for data thefts to
be committed by employees themselves. 94 percent of
businesses saw an improvement in their security after
switching to the cloud, per RapidScale.
Cloud computing helps with cost reduction since companies
won’t have to purchase equipment and in-house servers,
which take up valuable office space and are prone to theft,
fire or water damage. Work efficiency is also improved since
collaborations can be done anywhere and anytime, without
the limit of location. Co-authoring documents and file
sharing is made easy and done in real time, with the aid of
cloud-based productivity tools like Google Workspace and
Microsoft Teams.
5G and 6G
5G technology in smartphones will become mainstream in 2022
as network coverage is expanded globally. Forbes notes that
as of July 2021, 80 percent
of Americans already had
access to 5G coverage.
Globally, 170 commercial 5G
networks were launched in
2021. Demand will continue
to rise as operators launch
their own stand-alone 5G
networks, which include
5G mmWave launches in
Europe. Verizon claims that its Ultra-Wideband service will be
ten times faster than 4G and will provide better security and
lower latency for seamless 5G cloud gaming.
Beyond the smartphone realm, 5G is starting to be applied
in the automotive industry. 5G cars, enabled by Snapdragon,
will soon be out in the market. These
are said to support AI driving
and Augmented Reality, plus
integrate large screens,
premium audio systems and
smart mirrors. Moreover,
autonomous vehicles will
become more popular.
Delivery vehicles and
trucks are already being
tested in Houston,
Texas to deliver food
packages without the
need for drivers – just 5G
connectivity.
As 5G continues to advance,
there is also a growing momentum
of cellular-enabled laptops. So far,
HP, Lenovo and Dell already have their own
offerings – the HP Elite Dragonfly G2, Lenovo ThinkPad X1
Titanium Yoga and Dell Latitude 9510 2-in-1, respectively.
Meanwhile in the healthcare field, 5G will be used in
teleconsultations, remote surgery, the transfer of large
medical files, and real-time patient monitoring and treatment
with the aid of smart wearables.
11. need to react in a split-second. Through 6G, self-driving cars
will be made safer through this network’s reliability in a snap.
To grow their businesses, entrepreneur sourcing professionals
should take heed of various organizations slowly moving to
the cloud. The efficiency, security and cost-effectiveness that
cloud computing provides makes it a worthwhile investment.
In the realm of 5G, it would be wise to keep an eye on 5G
phones and related accessories, both in the flagship and
mid-range tiers. In the not-so-distant future, 5G laptops and
5G-enabled wearables in the medical field could prove worthy
additions to their ever-growing list of must-source tech devices.
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Tech giants like Qualcomm, Apple, Google, and LG are
already working on 6G. The goal is for it to be released
by 2030. YouTube tech content creator Arun Maini notes
that 6G will be 50 times faster than the fastest possible
5G connection, with a tenth of the latency. To put it in
perspective, it would only take one second to download
100 hours of Netflix, with the ability to support 10 times the
number of devices and being 100 times more reliable.
With 5G already incredibly fast, why the need for 6G?
This is where connectivity moves beyond smartphones to
various other industries like self-driving cars. A short delay in
connection would prove highly risky here since these vehicles
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What’s super charging the
electric vehicle market?
The market for electric vehicles is poised
to reach $1,318.22 billion in 2028
according to Fortune Business Insights.
Electric vehicles (EVs) are on their way to global market
domination and becoming the “new normal” mode of
transportation. With oil prices rising sharply to more than 15
percent in January 2022 alone – reaching nearly $100 a barrel
and surpassing the $90 per barrel global benchmark price –
and the growing concern about the adverse environmental
and health impacts of greenhouse gas emissions and other air
pollutants, electric vehicles provide a viable, cost-effective and
sustainable alternative to vehicles that depend on fossil fuels.
Electrification trend
The trend towards EV adoption is expanding at a tremendous
speed as more well-known automotive companies join the
global race to a net-zero carbon economy and micromobility
is revolutionizing the daily commute. Fortune Business
Insights has stated that the global electric vehicle market is
anticipated to reach $1,318.22 billion in 2028 at a CAGR of 24.3
percent from 2021 to 2028. Meanwhile, VynZ Research’s report
showed that the global light electric vehicle market is poised
to reach a CAGR of 10.4 percent from 2021 to 2027, owing to
rapid industrialization, stringent emission norms and growing
government support for EV adoption.
Net-zero carbon economy
The climate crisis has been an ongoing global problem for
many years, giving birth to the “Net Zero by 2050” roadmap
for cutting greenhouse gas emissions to as close to zero as
possible. Data from the United Nations shows that more than
13. 70 countries, including China, the US and Europe, have set
a net-zero target, while thousands of companies, cities and
educational institutions around the globe have also pledged to
halve global emissions by 2030.
Considered the world’s largest EV market, with 5.4 million
units in use in 2020 alone, China has invested heavily in the
development of battery manufacturing technology, as reported
by KPMG. The country aims to allocate up to 20 percent of
new car sales to “new energy” vehicles by 2025.
By 2030, the European Commission is targeting to have at
least 30 million EVs on the roads. Plans to incentivize the use
of electricity as a fuel are also in the works. In fact, part of the
EU’s €750-billion stimulus package is dedicated to boosting
the sales of clean vehicles and the installation of electric and
hydrogen vehicle charging stations.
In the US, a recent executive order signed by President Joe
Biden has directed the federal government to buy only zero-
emission light-duty vehicles by 2027 and that by 2035, all
government vehicles must be zero-emission.
Tesla’s continued domination
Leading American vehicle manufacturer Tesla is accelerating
the transition to sustainable energy with its EVs’ continued
dominance in the US market. Tesla models remain the most
popular EVs in the world with a whopping one million units
sold worldwide in 2021 and crossing the average 100,000
registrations a month with 170,000 registrations in the last
quarter of 2021.
Other market players like BMW, BYD, Ford, GM, Toyota,
Nissan, Toyota, Mercedes-Benz Group and Group Renault
are seeking to catch up with Tesla and have also started
manufacturing EVs and partnering with overseas brands for
localization.
Wider range of EV models
As demand for EVs skyrockets, demand for product variety
is also rising. Electric pick-up trucks, SUVs, crossovers and
off-road vehicles will see an increase in production soon.
Ford, for instance, is set to introduce its F-150 Lightning truck
which will have 10,000lbs of towing capacity. Mazda is also
set to launch its first plug-in hybrid SUV, the MX-30, in 2022.
Meanwhile, Tesla’s highly anticipated Cybertruck, which
boasts a range of 500 miles, is also projected to be released
in late 2022 or 2023.
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14. Improved EV charging
Charging remains a challenge for many EV users, but this
is about to change as more manufacturers are not just
developing ultrafast chargers but are also looking into the
use of cloud-connected charging and vehicle-to-grid (V2G)
technologies. Smart charging enables owners to monitor and
manage the use of their devices remotely to optimize energy
consumption. V2G, on the other hand, lets EVs save unused
power and discharge electricity generated from renewable
sources such as solar and wind – a feature that is especially
useful when there is a power outage.
There is also a growing trend towards building EV-ready homes
and public places. For example, the EU’s Energy Performance of
the Buildings Directive (EPBD) set out orders for new buildings
and buildings undergoing major renovations to install charging
stations or duct infrastructure in parking areas.
Post-COVID-19 recovery & opportunities
for the B2B sector
The future looks favorable for the global EV market as
governments start easing movement restrictions and
economies return to full strength. EV manufacturers are
ramping up their R&D efforts – increasing driving ranges and
battery capacities, and adopting an eco-friendlier approach
to production, ma king EVs more attractive to the public. The
increasing demand for EVs in the fleet management and public
transportation sectors is providing business opportunities not
just to EV makers but to battery manufacturers as well. As
the transition to EVs gains momentum and becomes a global
trend, this will present more opportunities not just for investors
but to supply chains.
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15. Internet of Things
in Fashion
Make way for the next
generation of wearables
Who would have imagined that from wearable electronics
and smart homes, the Internet of Things (IoT) would also
invade the fashion industry? Today, we see IoT integrated
into fashion to develop clothing that measures heart rate,
babywear that can analyze an
infant’s sleep patterns or
vital signs, and outfits
that can protect
the skin from
environmental
pollutants and
contamination.
In 2022, expect
more clothing
and fabrics
geared towards
providing health
benefits to users
to dominate and
allow wearers to send
information about their
emotional or physical
wellbeing to doctors.
Smart clothing
Smart clothes are
helpful in analyzing and
measuring a user’s health
while wearing them.
These are highly useful
in high-risk occupations
like firefighters, police
and military as the heart
rate and other vital
functions of individuals
can be detected while
they are in high stress
and dangerous situations
– aiding them in seeking
medical advice. Some
models include an ECG,
as well as sensors to
detect heart rate.
In the sportswear department, smart clothing not only
monitors the athlete’s heart rate and other vital signs but also
tracks workout performance. The apparel can be equipped
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16. This year, expect more clothing made from smart textiles
to make waves. What’s great about smart fabrics is that
they react to body temperature or pull moisture away from
the skin. These materials can adapt to the environment, so
users can wear the same apparel in both summer and winter
simply by changing its settings.
Moreover, IoT fabrics can be used to track the elderly,
hospital patients and kids via a GPS tracker, which sends an
alert when a patient with dementia has wandered off. Since
clothes made from IoT fabrics have various contact points
with the body, more functionalities such as obtaining blood-
oxygen and glucose level data, can be included in the system
than other wearables allow – providing a more holistic and
accurate observation.
Color- and pattern-changing fabrics
Spotted on the runway, color- and
pattern-changing fabrics are another
breakthrough innovation in fashion
to watch out for. The Unseen
fashion designer Lauren Bowker
has designed and invented a
fabric that can change colors
and patterns through the use
of a sensor system. Likewise,
she has also created a dress
that can understand the wearer’s
emotions, interpret human
magnetism and change patterns
through sensing brainwaves.
with a GPS to accurately track runs and give athletes tips on
how to improve their performance.
Heated garments are another innovation in IoT integration in
fashion, with a few smart heated jackets released in the past. This
apparel category has a lot of potential as a stable, commercially
available product but is still yet to be fully developed.
Sudden infant death syndrome is a new parent’s nightmare.
That’s where babywear made with IoT fabric comes in.
This outfit tracks an infant’s breathing and alerts parents
of abnormal or interrupted breathing via an app. New York-
based startup Nanit has developed such a wearable.
Smart fabrics
According to a report from Markets and Markets, the smart
textiles market is expected to grow from $2.3 billion in 2021
to $6.6 billion by 2026, at a CAGR of 23.2 percent during
the forecast period. This significant growth is primarily due
to technology advancements such as IoT and AI, as well as
expanding wearable electronics.
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17. While this new frontier may be exciting ,there are also
challenges posed on the design front. Apart from a flexible
and easy-to-use human-machine interface, IoT fabrics need
to be hardy, accurate and self-sufficient, and must be able to
withstand vibrations, collisions, and everyday wear and tear.
Ensuring accuracy is another challenge in IoT fabrics. The
wear and tear may affect the preciseness of the data it
collects. While installing more sensors will help ensure data
accuracy and lengthen product life, it also entails additional
design costs and complexity.
As with other smart wearables and devices, IoT fabrics face
the same problem of ensuring a steady power supply and
consuming energy as efficiently as possible while maintaining
high performance.
Lack of standards and regulations is another hurdle for the market
growth of smart textiles. Manufacturers are having difficulty
scaling up and commercializing new technologies. Some of the
processes in smart textile production, such as bleaching, dyeing,
neutralizing, scouring, mercerizing, printing and finishing, pose
serious environmental threats and cause pollution.
There’s no doubt IoT is changing the face of the fashion
industry in more ways imaginable. While designing IoT fabrics
and scaling their production can be incredibly challenging,
nobody can argue that it presents a lot of opportunities for
businesses to tap. After all, this effort will enable fabrics and
clothing bring the power of IoT to everyday life.
Challenges and opportunities
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