Over the past year, we have written extensively about the future of technology and cognitive computing. Below, we've extracted some of the most interesting insights and organized them by industry, with links to their original articles. Welcome to the world of cognitive computing, a transformative force in the future of everything.
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PHOTOS BY NICK FANCHER
People begin to order coffee as soon as the weather hits 69 degrees.
Insurers pay $2B for vehicles damaged by hail every year.
“The Weather Company can now generate 15 billion weather forecasts a day … in every major market around the world.”
Top-performing retailers are more than twice (2.2x) as likely to use business analytics as lower-performing peers.
91% of retail executives familiar with cognitive computing believe it will play a disruptive role in their organizations.
80% of retailers agree that having mobile apps represents a key advantage over the competition.
Only 51% of industry and academic leaders believe higher education is providing value for the money.
Only 49% of industry and academic leaders believe higher education meets student needs.
Almost 3/4 of academic leaders believe technology is disrupting traditional higher-education models.
41% of customers report that insurers are too slow to react to their changing needs.
Source: “Click Here to Reinvent Insurance for the 21st Century”
98% of insurance executives familiar with cognitive computing believe that it will play a disruptive role in the industry.
Source: “Click Here to Reinvent Insurance for the 21st Century”
“If you can automate 70% of the applications coming in, that is going to be hugely profound to the industry.”
Source: “Click Here to Reinvent Insurance for the 21st Century”
“It is absolutely going to change the face of medicine.”
– Sean M. Hogan, VP and General Manager of IBM Healthcare
Source: “Diabetes in the Digital Age”
People generate more than 1 million gigabytes of health-related data in a lifetime.
IBM’s Watson has so far processed 15 million pages of medical content, 200 medical textbooks, and 300 medical journals.
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HEALTH CARE
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Over the past year, we have written extensively about the future of technology and cognitive computing. Below, we've extracted some of the most interesting insights and organized them by industry, with links to their original articles. Welcome to the world of cognitive computing, a transformative force in the future of everything.
PHOTOS BY NICK FANCHER
WEATHER
People begin to order coffee as soon as the weather hits 69 degrees.
Insurers pay $2B for vehicles damaged by hail every year.
“The Weather Company can now generate 15 billion weather forecasts a day … in every major market around the world.”
RETAIL
Top-performing retailers are more than twice (2.2x) as likely to use business analytics as lower-performing peers.
91% of retail executives familiar with cognitive computing believe it will play a disruptive role in their organizations.
80% of retailers agree that having mobile apps represents a key advantage over the competition.
EDUCATION
Only 51% of industry and academic leaders believe higher education is providing value for the money.
Only 49% of industry and academic leaders believe higher education meets student needs.
Almost 3/4 of academic leaders believe technology is disrupting traditional higher-education models.
INSURANCE
41% of customers report that insurers are too slow to react to their changing needs.
Source: “Click Here to Reinvent Insurance for the 21st Century”
98% of insurance executives familiar with cognitive computing believe that it will play a disruptive role in the industry.
Source: “Click Here to Reinvent Insurance for the 21st Century”
“If you can automate 70% of the applications coming in, that is going to be hugely profound to the industry.”
Source: “Click Here to Reinvent Insurance for the 21st Century”
HEALTH
“It is absolutely going to change the face of medicine.”
– Sean M. Hogan, VP and General Manager of IBM Healthcare
Source: “Diabetes in the Digital Age”
People generate more than 1 million gigabytes of health-related data in a lifetime.
IBM’s Watson has so far processed 15 million pages of medical content, 200 medical textbooks, and 300 medical journals.
READ MORE ABOUT COGNITIVE COMPUTING
WEATHER
RETAIL
EDUCATION
INSURANCE
HEALTH CARE