Vistra, a major U.S. power producer, had a problem. For its plants to operate efficiently, workers had to continuously monitor hundreds of different indicators, tracking temperatures, pressures, oxygen levels, and pump and fan speeds — and they had to make adjustments...

If we have learned one thing from the past year, it’s that things can change in an instant — changes we thought we had years to prepare for, behaviors we assumed we’d stick to forever, expectations we have of ourselves and our organizations. This is true of the way we...

According to UN trade and development experts UNCTAD, the e-commerce sector saw a “dramatic” rise in its share of all retail sales, from 16 per cent to 19 per cent in 2020. The digital retail economy experienced most growth in the Republic of Korea, where internet...

The pandemic accelerated the uptake of e-commerce globally as people turned online in the face of lockdown restrictions. According to Forrester, there was a 25.7% surge in 2020 to make e-commerce worth $4.2tn and it expects retail sales worldwide to climb a further...

Google’s John Mueller was asked if “unlinked brand mentions” were important in Google’s algorithm. It was apparent from John’s response that “brand mentions” is probably not a real thing in Google’s algorithm, but he also said that there may be value to site visitors...

The last year has certainly changed the high street as we know it. We have seen stores closing and shopping centres left entirely empty. As millions of retail staff across the country were put on furlough, virtually all retail businesses regardless of size had to...

In its Digital Economy Index report released in March 2021, Adobe claimed that 2022 would be the first trillion-dollar year for U.S. ecommerce. The increased adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) fuels this rapid growth, which is reshaping the ecommerce experience...