Like with most technology areas, data science too was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. However, while a lot of businesses curtailed their AI-driven data science expenditure to rationalize costs during the pandemic, the public sector comprising governments and public interest initiatives led by private firms doubled down on data science…
During the 2008 recession, Toyota had to let go off many full-time employees. While this helped it survive the slowdown, it also caused much heartache all around. Since then, Toyota has augmented its variable workforce by 10-20%, a move designed to help it rationalize costs but without layoffs. What Toyota…
Have you ever thrown up your hands in frustration when after a hectic day of travel, you find your phone’s charger is incompatible with the one in your hotel room? If you have, we know the feeling as software developers too encounter such issues when developing software, whereby two objects…
August 12, 1994, is of great significance to the history of eCommerce. As reported by the New York Times, it was when a group of internet entrepreneurs celebrated what was then the first online retail transaction backed by data encryption to ensure privacy. The product that exchanged the virtual hands?…
While the mobile app market doesn’t quite have Forbes making an annual rich list for it yet, it’s clocking some serious numbers around the world. This has made business owners, investors, and serial entrepreneurs flock to the idea of building and marketing mobile apps. However, building an app with a…
Selling your products through a wide franchise or points of sale (POS) network is a proven way to increase your sales and reach while keeping a lid on overall costs. However, as many franchise business operators would agree, this model has its share of shortcomings, especially in an age where…
Did you know what is common between businesses as diverse as Burrow (DIY furniture), Tesla (premium electric cars), HP (PC and peripherals), and even Zoom (virtual communication)? They each belong to sectors that traditionally operate in the B2B space but have successfully adopted a DTC (Direct to Consumer) model. There…
There’s the carrot and there’s the stick. Technically, both those terms cannot apply to the same thing. That is to say, if something is a carrot to persuade you to do something, it cannot possibly be also a stick to punish you with if you don’t do that thing. But…
IGT (International Gaming Technology), one of the world’s largest gaming solutions company, realized around the early 2010s that it needed a more efficient way to operate its decentralized fleet of over 1,300 technicians and vehicles that served thousands of touchpoints throughout the US. The company eventually implemented a fleet management…
Have you ever dealt with a situation wherein you come up with a new feature or bugfix for your software, which was then tested by your QA team, before being pushed to the codebase, only for it to break something else, and being finally withdrawn? As an IT business solution…
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