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Fashion has been rocked by wave upon wave of redundancies over the past six months, as the Covid-19 pandemic reshapes the future of the high street. Thousands of roles have been axed Marks & Spencer, John Lewis and Arcadia Group among a great deal more. Many of the industry job losses have focused on head
It wasn’t long after the pandemic began that governments realized some of their more antiquated processes — based in old databases and paper forms — weren’t going to hold up under the pressure of a global crisis. Call centers reached capacity, public employees worked hours of overtime and data quickly became delayed and obsolete. A
Implementing a data culture can help organizations become more agile, responsive to customer needs, and open to innovation. Here’s a look at what it means to build a data culture, and the benefits of organizing for data operations at scale. The digital revolution presents every business with unprecedented opportunity—and risk. Cheap and abundant online resources
With executives from retail and tech preparing to descend on Retail Racing 2020, event founder Kevin Ludford shares learnings and advice from technology players on how the industry has changed and what retailers should be doing to sustain growth post-Covid. As the world continues to fundamentally shift, we brought tech vendors including Klarna and Taggstar
The tech rivalry between China and the United States has been characterised by some observers as a ‘Digital Cold War’. Dimitar Lilkov argues that in the technological arms race of the future, the EU may quickly find itself falling behind. In a seminal article, Swedish polymath Nick Bostrom posits the ‘vulnerable world’ hypothesis. It is a complex
The COVID-19 pandemic has unveiled a pressing issue – the need to develop effective drugs rapidly. But developing a new drug is easier said than done. Drug discovery begins with a hypothesis that the inhibition or activation of a target molecule or pathway results in a therapeutic effect. After target identification and validation, comes hit-to-lead and lead optimization
Established digital clean technologies could enable 15 per cent of the emission reductions needed in the UK between now and 2030. The UK government must step up efforts to support the UK’s emerging digital climate technology sector, a report published today argues, highlighting the dual benefits of accelerating emissions reductions and winning a bigger slice
As consumers navigated through the ‘first wave’ of Covid-19, the world had a glimpse of a near-future – where technology doesn’t just improve the infrastructure our lives revolve around but is the infrastructure. One overwhelmingly clear trend rose above the pack: the acceleration towards a digital-first economy, where even consumers with ‘traditional’ values or far-flung
Wars and pandemics change the world and shift the course of history. The Black Death killed half the population of Europe in the 14th century. But the plague eventually marked the end of Feudalism. Therefore, revealing the early capitalist structures of the Renaissance and a period of cultural, economic and scientific rebirth. In the 20th
Despite store closures and lost sponsorship deals causing sales to nosedive, a big push into dynamic digital creative has helped lessen the blow for Adidas, which has seen e-commerce grow 93%. The Drum finds out how the sports giant, that has its sneakers on the floor of 160 markets, adopted a personalisation-at-scale approach to keep
