The world might be fighting against a pandemic caused by a novel virus, but that is not the only health-related issue there is. The healthcare institutions still have their patients with chronic diseases such as cancer, diabetes, and heart conditions. They still need to treat those with depleting organs and life-threatening [...]
Just like every other industry, technology is bringing fundamental changes to the financial services sector as well. With the help of next-gen, emerging technologies, we are looking at a future with faster, smarter, and efficient financial services that are highly customer-oriented. Statistics say that most customers switch banks as [...]
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected over 72% of the world’s student population with the closures of academic institutes in most countries to contain the spread. Although this action was required to ensure the safety of students, teachers, as well as the supporting staff, the closures posed great challenges for [...]
People will remember the world as one before COVID, and the one after because nothing will ever be the same in a post-COVID world. We might adjust to the new normal, whatever it would be. However, by the time that normalized world arrives, all of us would have slipped [...]
Insurance is a relatively stable industry, which was first shaken by Insurtech and is now being impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The former is facilitating a technological shift that will help the global market to deal with the negative effects of the latter. So, even if Insurtech was not [...]
We are in the middle of a global humanitarian crisis. Global issues like the COVID-19 pandemic necessitates a strong and collaborative fight worldwide. As the pandemic poses one of the greatest challenges to the humankind, while weakening the healthcare systems, it is becoming increasingly important to address and resolve the issue quickly [...]
“The telecom industry reaches into every corner of our economies, societies, and private lives, and it is one of the greatest drivers of economic growth and human equality the world has ever seen.” This quote from Börje Ekholm, CEO of Ericsson Group, aptly summarizes the grave need & criticality of [...]
Thomas Friedman once said, “Supply chains cannot tolerate even 24 hours of disruption. So if you lose your place in the supply chain because of wild behavior, you could lose a lot. It would be like pouring cement down one of your oil wells.” There is no doubt that supply [...]
Long before a novel virus disrupted our everyday lives and, in a way, forced us to adapt to a new way of living, there were talks about the ‘Retail apocalypse’. Over the past couple of years, store closures have happened faster than store openings, while the overall foot traffic [...]
With the positive corona virus cases crossing over 1 million globally, we are at a risk of overwhelming our healthcare systems. Hospitals are stretching thin as the demand for critical care capacity surges and the supply falls short against the total projected number of cases. As per Mckinsey, the critical care capacity of the hospitals [...]
