Multimodal learning framework: leveraging best practices to support students

By leveraging compelling insights from faculty and student surveys, expert interviews and desk research, this report provides a playbook of best practices to support educators’ use of multimodal learning to achieve a range of outcomes.

AI comes of age: Putting customers and employees at the heart of data-driven journeys

 

 
 

From online bazaar to one-stop-shop: The rise of super-apps in the Middle East and Africa

In 2021 WeChat, China’s dominant social media and payment app, announced that it had reached 1.2bn monthly users, making it one of the popular standalone apps in the world. What originated as a humble messaging app has over the past decade transformed into a single portal bundling together millions of third-party apps, allowing customers to do anything from payment transfers, buying bus tickets and purchasing luxury goods to transferring their monthly rent.

Food 4.0: Technology in Agriculture and Food

 

Artificial Intelligence & Cybersecurity: Balancing Innovation, Execution and Risk

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated digital transformation across industries, creating newfound benefits to efficiency but also exposing new risks to organizational networks as technology adoption rises and employees increasingly work remotely. As a result, there has been a rapid uptick in the number of cyberattacks, ranging from mundane efforts to gather important business and personal information to highly sophisticated attacks on critical infrastructure.

Corporations should use the pandemic to showcase science careers

Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)corporate talent initiatives can be boosted from the momentum brought about by the covid-19 pandemic momentum.

Adapting to the remote norm: imbalances in work-life and cybersecurity equations

With the covid-19 pandemic far from over, its long-term impact is still a source of uncertainty for businesses in 2021. One outcome that looks set to last, however, is the shift to remote work.

Supply-Chain Evolution: A Strategic Perspective

This report is the second in a two-part series exploring the impacts of supply-chain disruption—a new normal for businesses. The first report, The business costs of supply-chain disruption, explored how disruption has become more common and more costly than ever, in terms of both operational and reputational costs. Over half of the executives surveyed (54%) acknowledge that they must make significant changes in order to effectively manage supply-chain disruptions over the next five years.

Flattening the Multimodal Learning Curve: A Faculty Playbook

Flattening the Multimodal Learning Curve: A Faculty Playbook is an Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) report, sponsored by Microsoft Higher Education, that aims to equip faculty with effective strategies, methods and tools to deliver high-quality, engaging and valuable learning experiences in any modality or setting – remote, hybrid (a mixture of online and offline classes) or in-person.

Securing a shifting landscape: Corporate perceptions of nation-state cyber-threats

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