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Man vs. Machine While firms have been digitizing their business processes and replacing human labor with machines for decades, recent developments in computing… Read more
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The value of online communities Firms increasingly provide their customers with online communities to foster social interactions amongst them. Our industry partner operates an online… Read more
Mobile Push Notifications: Time and Location-based distances Mobile push notifications represent a new marketing and service channel for firms’ touch points with their customers. Through mobile push… Read more
Paying with Data, What Does Your Cultural Background Say? A number of seemingly free services, such as Facebook and Google, are in fact monetizing on the users’ personal data.… Read more