This is the second in a series of analyses examining how data, information, and analytics providers embrace Diversity and Inclusion. This piece looks at the tactical approaches taken by some of the market’s largest players and follows one focus on the strategic importance of D&I.
When the pandemic hit, companies froze, diverted, or eliminated marketing funds slated for in-person events while other marketing activities either paused or went forward. This analysis explores where these event dollars will go in 2021, and to which marketing activities B2B will allocate budget.
The pandemic has forced the cancellation of K-12 summative assessments in many countries, creating a path for governments to revise outmoded assessment structures and opportunities for resource and assessment providers to work with educators to build solutions suitable for 21st-century learning.
Verisk Financial’s collaboration with Enigma Technologies demonstrates that business transactional data can be extrapolated to reveal companies’ financial health.
The scholarly communications industry enters 2021 facing a changed open access competitive landscape. Publishers will need to rethink their open access positioning and learn to differentiate in new ways.
What are the key trends in work automation, and what critical challenges does the information industry face? Outsell’s David Worlock discusses the future of robotic process automation and workflow automation with guest Martin Hyndman, Associate Director, Intelligent Process Automation at Cognizant
Creating ad hoc teams of high-potential staff to work on innovation projects can generate fresh thinking and spread the culture of innovation in an organisation. An ambitious program by The Associated Press demonstrates the value in idea generation — and the risks as well.
LexisNexis is collaborating with WorkFusion to let AI identify adverse news on people and companies. The use of AI in third-party screening has expanded beyond client and partner onboarding to corporate ethics and reputation risk management.
Multiverse recently raised $44 million in the largest venture round ever for a UK EdTech company. The funding highlights the burgeoning systemic change in the higher education market.
Automating professional services is a huge growth opportunity that professional information and software providers are perfectly positioned to serve, but only if they unburden themselves from their narrow definitions of who their customers are.
Fitch Group recently bought CreditSights to bolster its credit rating business. Traditional means of rating bonds are evolving to account for a more dynamic marketplace by adding components that provide a real-time pulse on businesses.
Content helps define a successful virtual event, as does how it’s created, delivered, and absorbed. Understanding how to best weave the content together can help teams lay a foundation for success. Here are some key paths to follow when thinking about the content mix for virtual events in 2021.
As it approaches its 10th anniversary, Indian EdTech player provider Byju’s is not only thought to be the world’s most valuable EdTech startup, it has also made the biggest ever acquisition by an EdTech player.
Elsevier’s Digital Clinical Experiences product, which it obtained via its Shadow Health acquisition in late 2020, highlights how information and learning tools providers are competing to provide digital experiences as close to a clinical setting as the technology allows.
Open access publishing is getting more competitive as it moves closer to the mainstream. With this move, Wiley demonstrates how to grow through acquisition, boosting market share fast while keeping a keen eye on margins.
