Upskilling : Building confidence in an uncertain world.PwC’s 23rd Global CEO Survey of 1,581 business leaders was conducted in September and October 2019, before the spread of COVID-19.Three-quarters of CEOs said they were concerned about whether they would have the talent they needed. Their worry was around how that would constrain growth.Today that same lack of people with the right skills a...

Sony's new AI-enabled camera sensors will be able to analyze footage in real time, making surveillance and security systems faster, more efficient and vastly less bandwidth-intensive.Sony has shown off what it's calling "the world's first image sensors to be equipped with AI processing functionality." These new sensors handle AI image analysis on board, so only the necessary data can be sent fo...

EVs more resilient as overall car market expected to shrink by 23% in response to health and economic crisis. Sales of electric passenger vehicles are forecast to fall 18% in 2020, to 1.7 million worldwide – with the coronavirus crisis interrupting ten successive years of strong growth. However, sales of combustion engine cars are set to drop even faster this year (by 23%), and the long-term e...

Contentsquare, a cloud-based platform that helps businesses create better customer experiences on the web, mobile and apps, closed on a $190 million Series D round of funding Tuesday.BlackRock Private Equity Partners’ team led the round, joining existing investors Bpifrance, Eurazeo Growth, Canaan Partners, Hermes GPE , Highland Europe, H14 and KKR, many of which participated in this round, ac...

Remote working has become the new normal for countless Americans as the coronavirus pandemic continues to cause massive disruption. Zoom calls with colleagues. A homemade sandwich for lunch — and the kids within earshot. It's hardly the workplace we expected. But the newest edition of the LinkedIn Workforce Confidence Index shows that 55% of respondents now think their industry can be effectiv...

A Swedish hotel has repurposed its rooms as pop-up restaurants in order to allow for socially-distanced dining.The coronavirus pandemic has had a severe negative effect on the hospitality industry, as hotels and restaurants have been effectively shut to customers for an extended period. As both businesses consider how they can resume business safely, one hotel operator has come up with a unique...

Nothing is certain about how the COVID-19 crisis will play out – apart from the reality we will not return to “normal”.[click to enlarge]In part this is because however the medical crisis is resolved, be that with a vaccine, treatments or simply accepting the coronavirus becomes a more permanent challenge in the community, the economic costs will be enormous and long term."Evidence-backed po...

The Hygiene Solution for Business Meeting.Telecommuting is recommended for COVID-19, but sometimes have to face-to-face.He suggest the concept of preventing the spread of splash particles in the face-to-face and preventing infection of each other through the turbulence effect of the air curtain, and also suggest new stylish exterior for Air curtain.Designer : Min-chang Kim[beheance]

We at BCG believe that the COVID-19 outbreak is first and foremost a societal crisis, threatening lives and the wellbeing of our global community.Society now, more than ever, needs to collaborate to protect people's lives and health, manage midterm implications, and search for lasting solutions.Leaders need to drive an integrated response to navigate the crisis It is the duty of health, politic...