Aligning a company’s workforce with the desired culture can improve performance against revenue goals by 9 percent, according to a new report from, Gartner Inc. However, only 31 percent of human resources (HR) leaders believe their organizations have the necessary culture to drive performance.

By the end of 2017, U.S. broadband households were spending nearly three hours per week watching video on a mobile phone -- an increase of nearly 55 percent from 2015. Parks Associates finds. This shift comes as households are watching less live broadcast video on their televisions, which dropped from over 60 percent of video consumption in early 2012 to 44 percent at the end of 2017.

Saving time and money are the top reasons why consumers would use artificial intelligence (AI), according to a recent survey by Gartner, Inc.

Tight supplies of display panel materials and components, such as driver integrated circuit (IC), glass substrate and polarizer, are expected to slow the decline rate of liquid crystal display panel costs, according to IHS Markit.

Global spending on cognitive and artificial intelligence (AI) systems is forecast to continue its trajectory of robust growth as businesses invest in projects that utilize cognitive/AI software capabilities, according to a new report from International Data Corporation (IDC).

Many new-vehicle buyers are unaware that a lot of today's technology features are the underpinning of tomorrow's autonomous vehicles. Taking automatic emergency braking as an example. Nearly two-thirds of consumers do not recognize this as an autonomous feature.

The deployment of smart vending technologies will surge in the Asia-Pacific as high-tech unmanned retail continues to attract major investment, ABI Research forecasts. The demand for technology-driven frictionless retail experiences, combined with cheap production costs and limited data privacy barriers, is driving rapid adoption in China, Japan, and South Korea, leaving the rest of the world behind.

Multiple factors are accelerating automated vehicle technology development, including improving safety (ideally to the goal of zero fatalities), eliminating congestion, reducing pollution and creating a socially equitable mobility model. These goals are not unique to Japan; such a vision is shared around the world.

Most organizations are undergoing a digital transformation that directly impacts how they do business, yet 70 percent of employees have not mastered the skills they need for their jobs today, and 80 percent of employees do not have the skills needed for their current and future roles, according to Gartner, Inc.

The front door is a front-and-center opportunity for smart home device companies according to a new report by Strategy Analytics . According to the report, “ Smart Home Access Control: Predictions, Players, and Products ”, sales of nearly 26 million units in 2023 will push the smart lock market size past $2.4 billion.

Smartwatches are expected to see significant increases in demand, growing 47 percent in volume terms during the first half of 2018, according to the latest Worldwide Wearables report from Futuresource Consulting.

A recent report by Juniper Research found that over 33 billion records will be stolen by cybercriminals in 2023 alone, an increase of 175 percent over the 12 billion records expected to be compromised in 2018. This will result in a cumulative loss of over 146 billion records for the whole period.

A new IDC survey reveals that cloud service demand due to Digital Transformation is changing the delivery of business-oriented solutions, with service providers ramping up their investments in new offerings to cater for their client's requirements not just for new infrastructure, but also applications, and managed and professional services delivered via cloud services. The survey finds that as a result, Asia Pacific excluding Japan (APeJ) services providers are rapidly exiting their traditional business models.

Given that a consumer's technology experience is highly predictive of their future technology desire and brand loyalty, automakers should carefully examine the user experience and provide customers with useful, reliable and valuable features. As always, the consumer will remain the ultimate judge for determining the value of technology and what should be incorporated into their next vehicle.

J.D. Power has launched a new website to give consumers better tools to assess vehicle quality and remove stress from the vehicle-buying experience, according to Troy Snyder, Vice President of J.D. Power's Consumer Division, in a recent podcast interview for journalists.

Eighty-two percent of mobile operators participating in a 5G study conducted by business information provider IHS Markit are busy trialing and testing the technology, mainly in North America and Asia, with 12 percent -- all from North America -- planning commercial 5G rollouts by year’s end.

So-called "UnTelco" opportunities for communications service providers (CSPs) in the smart home will reach $11.2 billion by 2022, though it will not be an easy journey, according to ABI Research. 

Speech recognition will reach the Plateau of Productivity within the next two years and six other technologies will reach mainstream business adoption in the next two to five years according to the 2018 Gartner, Inc. Hype Cycle for the digital workplace.

Strategy Analytics forecasts that global consumer and advertising spend on TV and video will grow from $490 billion in 2017 to $559 billion in 2022 -- an increase of $69 billion. Spend on over-the-top (OTT) video will account for 90 percent of this growth, according to Strategy Analytics’ Television & Media Strategies (TMS) report, “TV’s Transformation: A Unified TV and Video Market Perspective.”

A new update to the Worldwide Semiannual Big Data and Analytics Spending Guide from International Data Corporation (IDC) forecasts worldwide revenues for big data and business analytics (BDA) solutions will reach $260 billion in 2022 with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 11.9 percent over the 2017-2022 forecast period. BDA revenues are expected to total $166 billion this year, an increase of 11.7 percent over 2017.