Last year, Econsult Solutions’ thought leadership team, ESI ThoughtLab produced Smarter Cities 2025, a global benchmarking study which assessed various smart city initiatives to better understand how governments, citizens, and businesses were embracing new digital technologies. Currently, our team is well under way with the 2019 follow-up study, Building a Hyperconnected City. This year’s research […]
Read More“The cat 5 hurricane has been forecast, and we must prepare.” This was not a warning from the National Hurricane Center, but from Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, who was talking about the “urgent crisis in cyberspace” at a summit in New York earlier in the year. Just as climate change is creating […]
Read More…it’s amazing just how much you can spend sitting on your couch. As I ready for the ICSC show in New York, I am keenly aware that everything in retail is in free fall. The headlines about the market resemble those about food. One day the sky is falling (record number of store closings) the next […]
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