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Staples To Debut New Store Format With Coworking, Podcasting

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The Staples Connect concept, which will be officially introduced in six Boston area stores on Feb. The offerings include a 500-square-foot community space where shoppers can join or host events like workshops, speaker sessions and meetings. 5, offers experiences and solutions as well as a place to transact, Chain Store Age reported.

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Why Publicity Stunts Go Wrong So Easily

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When planning a large-scale marketing push or publicity stunt, it can be easy to overlook the fact that getting attention is hard, and getting positive attention is even harder. And the summer of 2018 has already featured two flashy mass-market promotions that aimed for it, missed and got to watch things go spectacularly awry.

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Retail Pulse: 7-Eleven Tests Cashierless Tech; Staples Debuts Connect Store Concept

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The Staples Connect concept, which offers experiences and solutions as well as a place to transact, debuted in multiple Boston area stores on Feb. Its offerings include a 500-square-foot community space for meetings, workshops and speaker sessions. Mike Motz, CEO of Staples U.S.

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In Search Of The Next-Gen AR/VR Retail/Payments Experience

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While many in the Greater Boston area stayed indoors to keep clear of the arctic chill that had descended upon the region, eight teams hunkered down in offices in the middle of the Financial District with another goal in mind: reimagining the retail and payments experience using AR/VR technologies. The hackathon began at 8 p.m. The Challenge.

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AI-Driven Facial Recognition Is Coming And Brings Big Ethics And Privacy Concerns

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Download our research briefing to dive into private market trends, startups working on ‘general AI’ or human-like intelligence, and the most prominent industries using AI algorithms. The State of Artificial Intelligence. This is the facial keypoints framework comes into play. CREDIT: IEEE-ICCVW 2017.

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Killing Strategy: The Disruption Of Management Consulting

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Before Bruce Doolin Henderson opened the doors of Boston Consulting Group on July 1, 1963, the concept of “competition” barely existed in American business culture, let alone the concept of strategy. They used every available resource to understand industries, markets, consumer sentiment, and companies’ product lines.

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Reopening: The Tech-Enabled Office In A Post-Covid World

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While still relatively new, biometric technology is a growing market , and its advantages are driving increased adoption. Miro , a San Francisco-based digital whiteboarding platform, builds customizable software to help teams collaborate across a variety of use cases from meetings and workshops to ideation and brainstorming.

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