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2.2 Opportunities and Challenges for China Previous industrial revolutions were led by economies with early-mover advantage and followed by others with late-mover advantage. Which advantage dominates is determined by the innovation capacity and cost advantage of firms in the economy. The digital ...
Similar culture-driven revolutions transformed software development and investment enterprises.What good looks likeOnce digital lightning bolts and a digital thread are in place, the driving question becomes, “How do we know our digital transformation is succeeding?” These indicators, in some number,...
The financial industry is continually exploring new possibilities and innovations due to the potential of digital technology (dig-tech). The massive acceptance of digital banking over traditional banking procedures is one of the most commendable advancements in the finance sector's digital landscape. Thi...
First, the advance of artificial intelligence is one of the greatest technological revolutions of our time (Makridakis 2017). Understanding how algorithms perform tasks or resolve complex problems, traditionally solved by human intelligence, might lead to disruptive changes in various disciplines, such as...
T he past 120 years have been marked by three important breakthroughs in human civilization: the industrial, electrical, and Information Technology revolutions. These three revolutions unleashed gigantic productivity gains that exceeded the cumulative output for thousands of years past. Now, we stand at...
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We’ve moved on from the early days of digital documents, capturing loosely structured data in primitive forms, to the highly structured revolutions introduced by relational and graph databases. Both phases marked a significant movement forward in how data is conceptualized and utilized within the ent...
Agriculture is becoming a substantial contributor to carbon emissions in China, and the efficient reduction of agricultural carbon emissions (ACEs) has become a universal concern. Currently, the digital transformation of agriculture (DTA) provides a new
Industrial revolutions have always led to major tax reforms. Progressive income tax was introduced as the industrial economy took off and wage-earning jobs became the norm throughout society. Value added tax (VAT) was designed to promote economic growth in the post-war boom years, as value ...