Leading global IT and business solutions provider, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has announced findings from its global study titled, Winning in a Business 4.0™ World, which benchmarks large companies in their Business 4.0 growth and transformation journeys by mapping their adoption of four critical business behaviours: driving mass personalisation, creating exponential value, leveraging ecosystems, and embracing risk.

Social commerce is a subset of electronic commerce that involves social media, online media that supports social interaction, and user contributions to assist online buying and selling of products and services. More succinctly, social commerce is the use of social network(s) in the context of e-commerce transactions.

Asking which industries are going to be most impacted by Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the coming years and decades, is much like asking someone in the 80s which industries are going to be most impacted by computer chips and computer software. In 1980s, it was possible to see that computers were going to revolutionize retail and medicine, but not to forecast the advent of Amazon or Taobao. Prediction of AI’s future influence is likely even harder than was the case for earlier technologies, due to the exponential nature of change in an era of unprecedented connectivity.

Customers nowadays expect more from their online store than just standard suggestions on the latest bestsellers or the cheapest items. Whoever wants to increase sales in e-commerce must meet the expectations and tastes of the customers - ideally fulfilling their wishes before they could even express them. However, this only works if the recommendations include comprehensive information such as the previous buying behavior and previous search queries, and thus become relevant for the customer. Pseudo-personalized emails, incoherent advertising, and randomly chosen "You might like it" links are more harmful than doing any good. If the personalized recommendation is successful, online retailers can improve customer satisfaction, achieve a higher conversion rate, and increase sales.

2019 promises to deliver incredible new developments in the way designers approach customer experience. Improvements in personalization and artificial intelligence (AI) are enabling independent designers and marketing professionals alike to create experiences that truly delight their customers.

For the first time in social listening history, companies can monitor their brand mentions in text, image, and now in motion with video recognition by Talkwalker, a social listening and analytics company that empowers over 2,000 brands and agencies to optimize the impact of their communication efforts.

The leading AI-powered social media marketing platform Socialbakers released a comprehensive report at the end of 2018 a comprehensive report that offers detailed information about the state of social media engagement and advertising, as well as emerging themes for the year ahead. The trend report dives into demographics and brand trends, advertising effectiveness, engagement best practices, and emerging trends involving influencer marketing and privacy and security.

Modern digital assistants, such as Amazon’s Alexa, Google’s Siri and Microsoft’s Cortana, are constantly evolving, but let’s be honest, nevertheless it’s still in its infancy and quite limited. Basically, these systems can only respond to previously learned commands and use technology that's been around in cars for a dozen years.

When it comes to customer-centricity, Customer Journeys are the melting pot of all disciplines and perspectives. Evidently, the enterprise around the customer journey in the daily business routine is initiated and managed by individual departments, such as marketing, sales, IT or service. As a result, despite considerable initial success, the creation of positive customer experiences, or winning of more new customers, often falter due to insufficient internal support of such projects. So, how can that be prevented?

The 3rd edition of INTERPOL World will take place from 2 to 4 July 2019 at Sands Expo & Convention Centre, Marina Bay Sands Singapore. Owned by INTERPOL and supported by Singapore’s Ministry of Home Affairs, this year’s edition will focus on the theme of ‘Engaging Co-creation to Prepare for Future Security Threats’.

Many 16 to 23-year-olds don’t seem to be driven to stand out as a personality from the masses in the context of their social media appearances. On the contrary, the so-called "Generation Z" seems to be surprisingly homogeneous: as far as aesthetics and poses are concerned, they are more likely to submit to the valid norms and rules that receive the most approval from the social media community.

As you can imagine, the digital disruption in sales stirs up existential fears, even among long-established distributors, since intelligent sales support in the form of software, apps and artificial intelligence are often not in place. The traditional methods of conducting sales negotiations need a fresh push as well this year, considering that analogue and digital communication will at best converge to a 360-degree dialogue competence. So, expect the winners of disruption in distribution to be companies and vendors that recognize this development potential and acquire new strategies.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Search Engine Advertising (SEA) mean more than just keyword analysis and should be an essential part of any online marketing strategy today. Simply because skillful SEO and deliberate SEA makes websites more productive for the sales of products. Considering certain rules can be useful to steadily improve existing operations, like the following

The Coalition for Better Ads announced that it will expand the Better Ads Standards for desktop and mobile web to all countries and regions worldwide to improve the online ad experience for consumers.