Product TypeDeep Dive Product TypeDeep Dive | November 10, 2015 Premium Connected Home Series: Smart Home SecurityThis 2nd report of our series on the connected home market examines how security is by far the main reason for adopting smart-home technologies.Read More
Product TypeDeep Dive Product TypeDeep Dive | October 22, 2015 Premium Connected Home Series: What Happens When Your Home Is Smarter Than You?This first report of our series on the connected home market provides an overview of the market, key drivers, underlying technologies and major players.Read More
Product TypeInsight Report Product TypeInsight Report | October 18, 2015 Premium EXPLORIUM DISCOVERING THE FUTURE OF RETAILOn September 24th, we were in Shanghai to attend the opening ceremony for Explorium, a Fung Group initiative in collaboration with IBM and Pico. Explorium is an innovative experimentation platform over the future of retail. report is a recap of what we saw.Read More
Product TypeEvent Presentation Product TypeEvent Presentation | October 14, 2015 Premium Top Ideas on Global Retail and TechFBIC TOP 20 RETAIL & TECH TRENDS 1. Ecommercification: More Convenient Payment 2. In-Store Shopping Becomes More Purposeful 3. Webrooming 4. Increasingly Personalized Shopping 5. At-Home Beauty Devices Limit Salon Visits 6. Geofencing and Beacons Enable Location-based MarketingRead More
Product TypeInsight Report Product TypeInsight Report | October 14, 2015 Premium EXPLORIUM: DISCOVERING THE FUTURE OF RETAILOn September 24th, we were in Shanghai to attend the opening ceremony for Explorium, a Fung Group initiative in collaboration with IBM and Pico, which is an innovative experimentation platform over the future of retail. This report is a recap of what we saw.Read More
Product TypeEvent Presentation Product TypeEvent Presentation | August 24, 2015 Premium The Collision of Digital Health the Consumer and WearablesAGENDA Digital Health Medication Adherence Specialty Pharmacy—Biosimilars Docs-in-a-box and Telemedicine Silver Generation Spending Trends Technical Beauty Wearable Tech Cool Startups Impact of Chinese Tourists Mobile Commerce Read More
Product TypeDeep Dive Product TypeDeep Dive | July 28, 2015 Premium Connected Cars: A Mobile Device CruisingAutomobiles are logically the next devices to be connected to the Internet, since we spend so much time in them and want connectivity everywhere. They will function as nodes in the Internet of Things (IoT), which is forecasted to encompass 50 billion devices by 2020.Read More
Product TypeEvent Presentation Product TypeEvent Presentation | February 24, 2015 Premium The Disruptors – The New Connected WorldMachine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI) • Machine learning finding its way through startups into applications like marketing, security, and operations • Deep learning includes computer vision, speech recognition, natural language processing, and bioinformatics • Companies today are using neural networks to identify objects for use in driverless carsRead More
Product TypeEvent Presentation Product TypeEvent Presentation | January 29, 2015 Premium The Future of Digital RetailAgenda Wearable Tech – How are we seeing wearables actually used? Gamification – Retail and social – Health and entertainment Augmented/Virtual Reality Practical Internet of Things Proliferation of Magic Mirrors Practical Uses of RFID Read More
Product TypeDeep Dive Product TypeDeep Dive | December 15, 2014 Premium Uberification and its ImplicationsInspired by Uber’s business model and the concept of sharing and an on-demand economy, start-ups are increasingly seeking to “uberfy” the world. Read More
Product TypeDeep Dive Product TypeDeep Dive | December 12, 2014 Premium The Potential And Pitfalls Of Consumer Data-MiningAs the era of Internet of Things progresses, gaining a 360-degree profile of consumers will become even easier. In the fast-moving world of retail, companies may have to constantly review their strategies for gathering information on consumers in order to stay ahead of competition. But they will also need to navigate ethical grey areas. Read More
Product TypeEvent Presentation Product TypeEvent Presentation | December 4, 2014 Premium New and Emerging Technologies Retailers Will Use to Market Their Brands and Products• Lower-income families spend more of their household budgets on energy and are more likely to spend any savings • Biggest category beneficiaries: Entertainment, restaurants, furniture and other home-related items and discount retailersRead More
Product TypeEvent Presentation Product TypeEvent Presentation | November 2, 2014 Premium New and Emerging Technologies Retailers Will Use to Market Their Brands and ProductsRetailers – Walmart: Biggest day of online orders on Cyber Monday; 500 new promotions a day through Friday – Target: 100,000 items on sale all week – Amazon: Cyber Monday spreading out to Cyber Week • Cyber Monday – e-commerce sales +15.6% YoY (Channel Advisor) – Online sales +8.5% YoY (IBM) – Average order value $124.21, down 3.5% YoY – Mobile sales +27.6% YoY (IBM) – Mobile sales = 22 % of total Cyber Monday online sales, +27.6 % YoYRead More