Automation 2020

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Business Models ◽  
Autonomous Systems ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Process Automation ◽  
Factory Automation ◽  
Know How ◽  
Digital Business Models ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future

Preface Our future is the world we are going to live in, attracting our fantasies, speculations, fears and hopes. We really would like to know something about it and want to be prepared. Therefore, we observe trends. An obvious trend is that our world gets more and more connected. Information is seamlessly following and doing this quickly. We learn that data can build business and influences people and society. AUTOMATION brings people together who are interested in the future of automation. Many of us already shape this feld in factory automation and process automation, we create methods and synergies, digital business models, we use artifcial intelligence and autonomous systems and latest communication technologies like 5G in automation. Let us learn together how existing businesses can be changed and new businesses can be created by a couple of enablers clearly at sight when you know how and why to look for them. Let us challenge our minds, our behaviors and get ready for our fut...

Reflection of Digital Transformation on Corporate Sustainability and a Theoratical Perspective

2020 ◽  
pp. 231-258
Author(s):  
Cemal Zehir ◽  
Burcu Özgül
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Corporate Sustainability ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Process Automation ◽  
Digital Business Models ◽  
Industrial Manufacture ◽  
The World ◽  
Theoretical Frame

With its high process automation and digitalization, Industry 4.0 provides new opportunities to actualize more flexible, higher quality, speedy, cheap, and productive manufacturing and services. Containing numerous technology and paradigms, Industry 4.0 is expected to transform the industrial manufacture and society by aiming at economic, social, and environmental gains. The facts that natural resources are running out, lifecycle of the world is diminishing, and society has increasing anxiety on this situation. These have been the propulsive power for the development of Industry 4.0. By means of the technology and innovations that Industry 4.0 brings along, it is clear that it could also contribute to the recent popular and emphasized concept:sustainability. In this chapter, after giving information about the paradigms related with Industry 4.0, the theoretical frame of corporate sustainability and the effect of digital transformation on corporate sustainability have been evaluated. And then, constructing sustainable digital business models and focusing on value proposal have been discussed.

Artificial Intelligence as a Growth Engine for Health Care Startups: Emerging Business Models

2018 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Massimo Garbuio ◽  
Nidthida Lin
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Business Model ◽  
Value Creation ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Health Conditions ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future

The future of health care may change dramatically as entrepreneurs offer solutions that change how we prevent, diagnose, and cure health conditions, using artificial intelligence (AI). This article provides a timely and critical analysis of AI-driven health care startups and identifies emerging business model archetypes that entrepreneurs from around the world are using to bring AI solutions to the marketplace. It identifies areas of value creation for the application of AI in health care and proposes an approach to designing business models for AI health care startups.

A Better and Healthier Time to Be Alive than Ever

2021 ◽  
pp. 3-24
Author(s):  
Sandro Galea
Keyword(s):  
Life Expectancy ◽  
Global Development ◽  
Know How ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Hiv Aids

This chapter discusses how the time of the COVID-19 pandemic was also a time when the world, in many respects, had never been better—or healthier. In a number of key areas—from life expectancy, to declines in poverty, to reductions in preventable diseases like HIV/AIDS—it was, and is, a more favorable time to be alive than any other point in recorded history. All these advances was a byproduct of foundational forces unfolding over time, forces like industrialization, global development, urbanization, and political changes. However, the incidental nature of this success has meant that we have yet to fully acknowledge why it occurred, which hinders our ability to advance it in the future. Why do we need to know how we got here? First, our understanding of the causes of health shapes our investment in health. America's investment in healthcare comes at the expense of their investment in the foundational drivers of health. The second reason is that if we do not understand the true causes of health, we will be unable to build a world that is ready for the next pandemic.

The Web as a Learning Environment for Kids

2000 ◽  
pp. 166-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sherif Kamel
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Information And Communication

The Internet and the World Wide Web are demonstrating the growing influence of information and communication technologies in various aspects of the economy. Regardless of the barriers of time and distance, newly introduced information highways are linking the world countries together, their societies and cultures contributing effectively to globalization. One of the growing trends in societal development and growth is investment in people. Therefore, the learning process is a priority issue that information and communication technologies are serving trying to upgrade and leverage human resources to become more competitive as we approach the 21st century with all its challenges and opportunities. This chapter covers an initiative that was launched in Egypt in 1997 that targets the investment of Egypt’s young generation, the kids of the present and the leaders of the future. This initiative is part of a national plan that aims at leveraging the capacities of Egypt’s human resources. The focus of the chapter will be the learning process, the Internet and the presence of the first Egyptian Web site for children on the Internet “Little Horus.” With the introduction of the Internet since 1993 in Egypt, today there are around 250,000 Internet subscribers, among which are a growing community of schools, teachers and children. As the Internet grows in magnitude and capacity, perceived to reach over one million subscribers in the coming five years with an estimated 20 percent under the age of 16, the Internet and the World Wide Web could play an active role in the education process in Egypt. The chapter, therefore, will demonstrate the “Little Horus” initiative, the steps that were achieved so far, the plan for the future and the building blocks that represented the critical success factors for the realization of this initiative with relatively modest resources.

Manufacturing in the world: where next?

2015 ◽  
Vol 35 (9) ◽  
pp. 1253-1274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louis Brennan ◽  
Kasra Ferdows ◽  
Janet Godsell ◽  
Ruggero Golini ◽  
Richard Keegan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Business Models ◽  
Customer Engagement ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Content Type ◽  
New Era ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Consistent Feature ◽  
Manufacturing Network

Purpose – The past three decades have seen the transformation of manufacturing involving its global dispersion and fragmentation. However, a number of recent developments appear to suggest that manufacturing may be entering a new era of flux that will impact the configuration of production around the globe. The purpose of this paper is to address the major emerging themes that may shape this configuration and concludes that most of them are still in their initial stages and are not likely to create a radical shift in the next few years in how manufacturing is configured around the world. These themes were presented in a special session on “Manufacturing in the World – Where Next?” at the 2013 EurOMA Conference in Dublin, Ireland. Design/methodology/approach – The paper provides a series of perspectives on some key considerations pertaining to the future of manufacturing. An evaluation of their likely impact is offered and insights for the future of manufacturing are presented. Findings – The importance of a focus on the extended manufacturing network is established. The need for customer engagement and a forward looking approach that extends to the immediate customer and beyond emerges as a consistent feature across the different perspectives presented in the paper. There is both the potential and need for the adoption of innovative business models on the part of manufacturers. Originality/value – The paper presents in-depth perspectives from scholars in the field of manufacturing on the changing landscape of manufacturing. These perspectives culminate in a series of insights on the future of global manufacturing that inform future research agendas and help practitioners in formulating their manufacturing strategies.

Workplace Bullying in Digital Environments

2017 ◽  
pp. 803-825
Author(s):  
Leslie Ramos Salazar
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Workplace Bullying ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Future Trends ◽  
Workplace Conflict ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Digital Environments

Workplace bullying continues to be a prevalent workplace conflict issue in organizations around the world. The organizational reliance of communication technologies and digital media have enabled workplace bullying to evolve into workplace cyberbullying. Workplace bullying impacts individuals, relationships, organizations, and societies. For this reason, this chapter reviewed the transdisciplinary workplace bullying literature to conceptualize key constructs such as workplace bullying and workplace cyberbullying. This chapter also reviews the prevalence of workplace bullying, antecedent behaviors of workplace bullying, the consequences of workplace bullying, and the intervention approaches. Lastly, this chapter offers several recommendations for the future trends of workplace bullying scholarship.

The impact of information and communication technologies in fish consumption in Portugal: building a support for the coming generations

2020 ◽  
pp. 855-872
Author(s):  
Valentina Chkoniya ◽  
Ana Oliveira Madsen ◽  
Teresa Coelho
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Fish Consumption ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Point Of Sale ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Shopping Experience ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Impact

Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are powerful tools in an extremely unstable and turbulent world, being a vital weapon in an era of electronic communication, full of unpredictability and entropy. Portugal is Europe's leader in consumption of fish and ranks third in the world. It is with this historical, economic and food galaxy interpretation of the world that we have decided to study the fish consumption supply chain in Portugal, distributing and analyzing 2 different surveys on purchase and consumption behaviors. 1393 respondents participated in surveys, one survey being for the general of the population and another one specifically for generations Y and Z. Being ICTs so vital to young people and being generation Y and Z the future in consumption, we have focused our study on how to build a support for the coming generations. To do that we have design communication strategies for fishing sector, including point-of-sale communication, underlining the issue of shopping experience, which in the case of young consumers is, very closely linked to ICT, based on creating sustained value for society underpinned by a relation of cooperation and proximity. Following Toffler's permanent adaptation survival rule, it is vital to the food supply chain (in our case, fish) to rapidly understand that the future of consumption is in the hands of the "Z/Post-Millennials" generation, meaning that product, place, price and promotion have been replaced by Ettenson's Solutions, Access, Value and Education.

scholarly journals Prospects for the future of commercial printing

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Csaba Horváth ◽  
◽  
László Koltai ◽  
Klaudia Maňúrová ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Business Models ◽  
Rate Of Change ◽  
Printing Industry ◽  
Customer Demand ◽  
The Past ◽  
Generation Z ◽  
Current State ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Future

The rate of change for the commercial printing industry with regard to technology, business models and customer demand is growing, and the landscape of the industry already looks vastly different from a few short decades ago. Across the commercial print sector today, there are many different types of companies – some very successful, with a young, skilled, enthusiastic workforce who have no trouble innovating and recruiting. However, as in any rapidly developing sector, other companies are trailing behind. Demographic changes are entering the market (Generation Z), as well as the upper levels of management in printing companies (Millennials), and “their preferences are now their demands”. This requires business models to be re-invented and a more intensive focus on issues relating to sustainability. The authors of the article summarize the future of the world of commercial printing and the current state of European commercial printing. They have based their work on a report published by the Smithers Research Institute in January 2020 on this topic and on the professional findings and arguments presented at major scientific conferences over the past two years, with the aim of getting these latest ideas to the earliest helping the researchers and practitioners to adapt to the rapidly changing situation and the challenge.

scholarly journals FINANCIAL ASPECTS OF TAKING INTO ACCOUNT OF NEW ECONOMIC RISKS IN THE ACTIVITY OF ENTERPRISES

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (39) ◽  
pp. 376-386
Author(s):  
М. Karlin ◽  
О. Stashchuk ◽  
О. Borysiuk
Keyword(s):  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Jel Classification ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Financial Condition ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Delivery Services ◽  
Climatic Risks ◽  
Economic Risks

Abstract. The economic development of enterprises in the world and in Ukraine in 2020 and in the future will increasingly depend on taking into account new economic risks, among which it is appropriate to note the following: climate, epidemiological (especially coronavirus), deglobalization, protectionist, populist, inequality income. Against the background of the coronavirus pandemic and the resulting economic crisis, the sector of domestic small and medium-sized businesses focused on the provision of offline services has suffered the most. In fact, the demand for the services of catering, entertainment, tourism, hospitality, as well as the beauty industry and non-food retail in quarantine has fallen several times. At the same time, the need to pay wages, taxes, social security contributions, rents, loans to banks and counterparties for supplies and other services remained. At the same time, all types of businesses that have not had time to switch to providing goods and services online or adhere to business models related exclusively to the provision of personal offline services are at risk of bankruptcy in the future. The consequence of quarantine will be an economic crisis, and, consequently, a reduction in purchasing power and a change in consumer behavior. In general, there has been a violation of the traditional seasonality of sales, changing trends due to falling consumer incomes. At the same time, digital services are accelerating e-commerce, payment systems, online ordering, and delivery services. Also, among other economic risks in the activities of enterprises, special attention is paid to the need to identify and assess financial and climatic risks that arise due to restrictions imposed by international organizations and individual countries on business. Accordingly, companies engaged in climate-hazardous activities must calculate their financial losses in the future if they continue such business. Another problem is the fact that financial and climatic risks and other new economic risks have not been sufficiently studied and systematized, and their impact on the financial condition of enterprises in the world and in Ukraine has not been studied. Keywords: new economic risks, enterprise, deglobalization, protectionism, economic populism, economic inequality, Ukraine. JEL Classification D21, E44, G30, Q32 Formulas: 0; fig.: 2; tabl.: 0; bibl.: 14.

Future Morality

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Intimate Relationships ◽  
Criminal Activity ◽  
Personal Relationships ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Know How ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Scientific Advances

The world is changing so fast that it is hard to know how to think about what we ought to do. We barely have time to reflect on how scientific advances will affect our lives before they are upon us. New kinds of dilemma are springing up. Can robots be held responsible for their actions? Will artificial intelligence be able to predict criminal activity? Is the future gender-fluid? Should we strive to become post-human? Should we use drugs to improve our intimate relationships — or to reduce crime? Our intuitions about questions like these are often both weak and confused. This book presents provocative and engaging pieces about aspects of life today, and life tomorrow — birth and death, health and medicine, brain and body, personal relationships, wrongdoing and justice, the internet, animals, and the environment.

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