"Having good market intelligence is no longer optional in this day and age"
Rakesh Pabbi - Senior Partner
Robotization is very spectacular in its physical form, from simple toys for children to robots in factories or hospitals. But the current landscape of artificial intelligence has nothing to do with the Japanese automobile factory robots of the 80s. In reality, its development is already more impacting in its underground version, purely algorithmic and software. We went from manual tasks to intellectual processes.
New analysis has shown that the evolving nature of public healthcare has caused the consulting industry in the UK to adapt its offering to the sector. While tightened regulations have seen the National Health Service reduce its spending on consulting firms in some areas, a number of consultancies continue to gain lucrative business from the NHS via Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships.
Some of the UK’s top female innovators are seeing their ideas and aspirations come to life following their participation in Innovate UK’s women in innovation competition.
This awarded 15 female entrepreneurs £50,000 each and a tailored package of mentoring and business support. It is part of our effort to boost the support available for women in business.
A recovery in China’s increasingly high-tech manufacturing sector has been tipped to bolster economic growth through 2018, after a near seven-year slowdown was halted last year.
Multinational corporations are failing in their attempts to tap into China's remarkable consumer growth, heard delegates at a Davos panel discussion this morning led by WPP CEO Sir Martin Sorrell.
After 19 years in business, Clearview Capital’s investment strategy has not changed much. Its record has argued for staying the course.
The Stamford-based private equity firm is riding the momentum of two recent deals for companies that each sold for several times the price for which Clearview bought them. Such results are nothing new for the group. Clearview officials credit their series of strong performances on a steady strategy that values the growth of small but promising businesses.
The life sciences industry is waking up to data without borders, or more precisely decision making about patients in which patients themselves are at the center of those decisions. I’m talking, of course, about Real World Evidence.
Audit, tax and consulting firm RSM has established a new technology and management consulting hub in the North West.
Operating from the company’s offices in Manchester city centre, the hub represents the latest move in a drive to expand RSM’s core services nationally, particularly in IT and digital strategy, cloud ERP and management consulting services.
China is getting ready for the Lunar New Year holiday – a time of family gatherings, renewal, and considerable household spending.
Dstl is working in partnership with Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) and the Alan Turing Institute – the national Institute for data science – on a number of defence challenges that exploit the power of data science.
NHS England has awarded £8.7m to 10 companies that are developing new technologies aimed at 'future-proofing' general practice.
Some of the companies are developing technology to support self-care
The funding has been awarded via Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) Healthcare, an NHS England scheme that works with England’s 15 Academic Health Science Networks to identify new technologies developed by small businesses and start-ups that could help improve patient care and increase efficiency.
Five trends are transforming the automotive industry, according to PWC: electrification, autonomy, sharing, connecting and yearly updating, a combination the consultancy is now labeling “eascy”.
From travel and retail to banking, China’s facial-recognition systems are becoming part of daily life
The growing number of public and commercial applications for facial recognition in China may bolster the nation’s wider push to lead the world in artificial intelligence.
Almost 150,000 patients in England have waited more than 30 minutes before being admitted to A&E this winter, according to NHS figures.
Data from the end of November to 11 February showed the number of people waiting half an hour or longer was 149,214, while a further 35,535 people waited more than an hour
Apple CEO Tim Cook talked up the company's ambitions in the health-care sector on Tuesday, hinting that it will move beyond wellness apps and devices, like its step-tracking Apple Watch.
Cook acknowledged at the company's annual shareholders meeting in Cupertino, California, that the health-care sector, which is notoriously complex, doesn't always encourage new players to innovate. But he reassured shareholders that he views Apple as having a "great position," in the sector, by taking a more consumer-friendly approach.
China is calling for deeper cooperation on the internet of things among countries around the world, and to jointly launch a global demonstration platform for the IoT, said He Xuming, executive chairman of the World Internet of Things Convention.
Recently, the city of Wuhan announced that they will be opening a police station run solely by artificial intelligence (AI) – no employees need to apply. Although the station would be limited to vehicle and driver related administrative work, the government anticipates increasing AI use in many other areas of governance.
It has been a momentous month for healthcare agreements between the UK and China, with the announcement of numerous collaborations by UK companies in healthcare and life sciences with their Chinese partners
For over 30 years, Silicon Valley has been known as the world's center for digital innovation, but that perception is becoming as fresh as a flip phone. China is determined to become the world leader in the IoT, and just launched the second half of a ten-year, $US60 billion plan to cultivate domestic innovation in this space. Global IoT players with an eye toward success are thinking less about competition and more about cooperation.
Even though the healthcare industry has been slower to adopt Internet of Things technologies than other industries, the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) is poised to transform how we keep people safe and healthy especially as the demand for solutions to lower healthcare costs increase in the coming years. The IoMT can help monitor, inform and notify not only care-givers, but provide healthcare providers with actual data to identify issues before they become critical or to allow for earlier invention
