A new Gartner survey revealed that 87% of business leaders expect to increase their organisation’s investment in sustainability over the next two years. Customers are the primary stakeholder group creating pressure for organisations to invest or act on sustainability issues, selected by 80% of executives, followed by investors (60%) and regulators (55%).
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Gartner: Board of Directors, not IT, main decision maker for emerging technology investments
Fifty-three per cent of organisations report their board of directors are among the main decision makers for emerging technology (ET) investments, just behind chief information officers (CIOs) and chief technology officers (CTOs), according to a recent Gartner survey.
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Analytics Insight announces ‘Top robotics companies at the forefront of innovation’
Analytics Insight has announced ‘Top Robotics Companies at the Forefront of Innovation in 2021’. They describe ten robotics companies leveraging disruptive technologies to transform different industries from healthcare and manufacturing to defence and education. According to the researchers these companies have evolved beyond their boundaries and showed significant growth through their efforts in R&D, new initiatives, product launches thereby playing a key role to channelize global industries.
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Blog: Success factors for process mining implementation
by Guestby GuestAs more and more organizations accelerate their digital transformation initiatives and adopt process mining to analyze and monitor their business processes, academic research has started to address the business application side of process mining as well.
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More and more companies are using automation solutions such as robots to support their employees in their work. This trend is veering away from single projects towards end-to-end automation. But who is going to do that? In practice, the employees themselves can be an important factor in the adoption of automation and in scaling it up to innovate with data and AI.
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Pegasus Mini hybrid drone-ground robot nominated as finalist for AUVSI Xcellence Awards
Robotic Research is named by the Association for Unmanned Vehicles Systems International (AUVSI) as a finalist for an XCELLENCE Award in the category of Innovation. AUVSI selected Robotic Research for its Pegasus Mini, a lightweight, compact unmanned system that can fold out of a backpack and transform from a tracked ground robot to quadcopter-type drone, and then back again.
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Changing customer demand in legal asks for a digital transformation
Legal tech, according to Jeroen Zweers, vice president of the European Legal Tech Association (ELTA), is about a digital transformation, set in motion by customer demand. A transformation which frees up lawyers for complex cases and delivering self-services to clients. ‘For example, contracts can be automatically scaled from low to high risk. Only the high-risk contracts need to be reviewed by the legal department, which saves you a lot of time.’
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Le secrétaire d’État Keijzer avec des entreprises et des chercheurs en mission d’IA en France et au Japon
La secrétaire d’État Hollandaise Mona Keijzer, chargée des affaires économiques et du climat, dirigera deux missions d’innovation virtuelle: une mission d’IA numérique en France et une mission au Japon numérique. L’objectif est de «mettre les entrepreneurs et les chercheurs néerlandais en mesure de se développer à l’international grâce à leurs innovations numériques et de capitaliser sur les opportunités économiques du marché mondial».