According to Gartner, “Store inventory is at the heart of ongoing pandemic-induced retail digital acceleration in unified commerce execution.” Yet historically, as Gartner explains, “Historically, many retailers have relied on their legacy solutions, often homegrown, for SIM processes.
Pharma has embraced new strategies and tech for the R&D and manufacturing of products, but commercialization strategies and tech remain unchanged. While direct-to-consumer pharma spend has increased, the call to action for patients is inconvenient and unpersonalized: a static “talk to your doctor”
Digitisation helping farmers go beyond traditional agriculture, says Omnivore official
May 25, 2021
Jinesh Shah, Managing Partner, Omnivore×
Farmers adapting to technology in the last couple of years as never before: Jinesh Shah
Digitisation among farmers has increased manifold in the last 2-3 years with prices of data dropping and this has resulted in growers willing to go beyond traditional means of agriculture, according to Jinesh Shah, Managing Partner of India’s leading agri-tech venture capital firm Omnivore. This has the “potential to disrupt a few major challenges such as labour, employment and climate change”, Shah told
BusinessLine in an interview.
In the past year, due to the Covid-19 crisis, the amount of digitisation witnessed has not been seen in the last 4-5 years, he said.
Federal Education Minister Alan Tudge’s push for better engagement between universities and industry signals renewed ambition and dynamism among higher education policymakers. Research commercialisation is being pitched as the way to rejuvenate a higher education sector plunged into crisis by the COVID-19 pandemic. Government has a crucial role to play in this process, and we have identified three specific steps it can take to help Australia catch up with the world’s best.
Australia’s public universities are world-class research bodies. But, unlike many universities in places like Europe and the United States, they are not good at building on that research for commercial returns. Australia’s level of research commercialisation is one of the worst in the developed world.
Home Depot looking to fill hundreds of positions in Western New York
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Getty Images | Joe Raedle
Posted at 4:44 AM, Apr 21, 2021
and last updated 2021-04-21 04:44:35-04
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) â The Home Depot is preparing for a busy spring season by hiring more than 440 part-time and full-time positions throughout Buffalo and the surrounding area.
In-store positions will focus on customer service, filling online orders that are picked up curbside or in store, unpacking overnight freight and merchandising.
The company is also hiring more than 1,500 associates across its 100 distribution centers nationwide.