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- February 24, 2020
- November 29, 2019
"50% of the policies we issue do not require human intervention"
Although for the CIO of Nationale-Nederlanden, Jordi Bueno, automation is a great business advantage, he says that people remain strategic for business, and relies on technologies such as the cloud and automatic learning to bring more value to customers - November 28, 2019
"The problem is that failure is not seen as something natural"
For Adigital's president and co-founder of the K Fund, Carina Szpilka, technology is only a facilitator for innovation to work. In her opinion, the real innovators are the people who have to be offered safe spaces so that they can take risks. - November 4, 2019
"The fundamental part of talent is the obsession to keep learning"
If new technologies are revolutionizing almost every industry, travel was not going to be any less. Amadeus' general manager for Spain and Portugal, Fernando Cuesta, believes that traditional holidays, devised according to the time and destination, are going to disappear. - November 4, 2019
"We're moving towards a model of selling everything as a service"
Change ownership to renting with technology and data, whether it is a car, a house or a shower. This is the main idea of the vision of the president of Bosch for Spain and Portugal, Javier González Pareja, who regrets the years in which products were created without asking customers. - November 4, 2019
"I don't visualize a robot carrying food to the client's table"
Although the director of McDonald's Consumer and Business Unit, Alejandro Hermo, bets on maintaining the human component, he also imagines a future with intelligent burgers that know the tastes of their customers as soon as they walk through the door. - November 4, 2019
"The best energy is the one that is not consumed, the problem is that we use too much"
Waiting for the most sustainable solutions for mobility to become more economical, the CEO of Madrileña Red de Gas, Alejandro Lafarga, defends natural gas, especially for public transport. - October 31, 2019
"The only constant will be technological change and you have to be quick"
The mission of Banco Santander's CTO, Julieta Ross, is for the finance giant to adapt with agility to a world and rules that are changing faster and faster. To this end, it is rapidly transforming itself internally, seeking allies in 'start-ups' and customers, and bets that the talent of the bank itself is a participant and adheres to the change. - October 31, 2019
"Employees must be helped to be able to self-teach"
The urgency of decarbonizing the world, digitalization and the need to adapt to the new customers are the three engines that are accelerating the renewal of the electricity sector, according to Endesa's CEO, José Bogas. In his opinion, whoever opposes the changes instead of facing them will cease to exist. - October 31, 2019
"For me to innovate is to make research profitable"
Cepsa CEO Pedro Miró explains how they have managed to save 10 million euros a year thanks to AI. Its digital transformation strategy is based on three axes: immersion in new technologies, exploitation of data and internal development of workers - October 31, 2019
"Businesses should function as the neural networks of AI"
For Liberty Mutual's Transformation director, Enrique Huerta, just using massive data analysis to set prices is a thing of the past. New technologies not only improve and create new products, they also enable them to be able to cope with any change. - October 31, 2019
"The biggest challenge is managing those of us who aren't digital natives"
While CWT CEO Rafael Sueiro is confident that IA and 'blockchain' will shape the future of business travel management, he says the biggest challenge is not technology, but having skilled workers who understand customer needs. - October 31, 2019
"Many brands shouted at the customer, now technology allows us to whisper"
For Ikea Spain's Digital Strategy Director, Mosiri Cabezas, the digital transformation must be approached from a sensible point of view and not limited to following fashions and, to this end, she highlights the need to preserve the essence that makes each company unique. - October 31, 2019
"We don't want to cure, we want to get there before the disease"
The president of HM Hospitales, Juan Abarca, reflects on the road ahead for leading technologies such as genetic 'clairvoyance' to reach a level of reliability sufficient to achieve individualized medical prediction. - October 31, 2019
"Online commerce is not going to wipe out the physical store"
Terry von Bibra, general manager of Alibaba in Europe, believes that "one simply has to transform oneself" in order to combine the best of both worlds. To this end, the company is implementing the new retail strategy in the physical stores. - October 30, 2019
"Real-world data is more useful than clinical trials"
For the CEO of Almirall Pharmaceuticals, Peter Guenter, there is no doubt that personalized medicine is the top priority of his industry. To achieve this, he relies on big data and IA, and on collaborating with start-ups to learn from their findings and their way of innovating. - October 30, 2019
"You can't pay everyone the same, you have to give an emotional salary"
For the CEO of Leroy Merlin Spain, Ignacio Sánchez, well-trained, experienced and cooperative talent is fundamental to success. For this reason, in addition to promoting technologies such as AI, he considers that companies should strengthen the human relationship with the client. - October 30, 2019
"We cannot afford to misuse patient data"
For Sanitas CEO, Iñaki Ereño, technological innovations such as 'big data' and artificial intelligence applied to the health sector not only help companies to be more agile, their main focus should be on improving the customer experience.