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A 'business as new normal' in the Vaccine Economy update from the retail giant.

A 'business as new normal' in the Vaccine Economy update from the retail giant.
This week - Microsoft changes their positioning on ChatGPT for search. No surprises here - but the pursuit of enterprise use cases is worthwhile. Plus: time to revisit the enterprise Metaverse. Your whiffs include cheating on AI ethics exams - and data backups for Valentine's day.
Having too much non-additive content and inaccurate data has been an issue for the online marketplace provider. Can AI save the day?
No time to get comfortable - Richard Cudd of Confluent forecasts three ways that retail businesses can weather the changes to come.
Celonis’ Head of Solution Engineering for Retail and CPG explains how process mining can help retailers get a better grip on their margins, ROI and supply chain decisions.
L'Oréal released a solid set of results that saw like-for-like revenue growth of 10.9%. But CEO Nicolas Hieronimus sees even more opportunity in the Metaverse.
This week - ESG vendors need to move beyond reporting - are they? ChatGPT supposedly has ethical guardrails, but does it? AI search heats up, Amazon's grocery play gets an omni-channel reality check, and I come in defense of... blockchain?
Amazon's long had big grocery ambitions, but in the Vaccine Economy, it's struggling to find an omni-channel selling point that works.
Want to boost your service and satisfaction levels? Salesforce's Clara Shih has a three step program to do just that.
Adobe Commerce specialist site builders Tom&Co built a new system for Topps Tiles that’s led to 21% year on year sales boost in Q4 alone
Marketing, meet AI! Now, what’s next?
This week - Davos stoked the fires of essential tech debates - now we have to solve them. Enterprise tech spending forecasts are still up, but downgraded by consumer tech woes (and layoffs). Can next-gen tech overcome practical (budget) barriers? Your whiffs include... pet fish abusing credit cards.
A wide-ranging debate around data sharing and collaboration brought up some interesting questions and observations.