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Machine Learning is one of the most important technologies of our era and it has already had substantial impact on our everyday lives, both in our homes and in our workplaces.

Topics: SP Jain School of Global Management, Thought Leadership, Disruptive Technologies

The tech sector offers some of the best-paying jobs, no discussions here. Various research agencies bring out average yearly salaries data like these: Software Architect – $120,000; Data Scientist – $110,000; Software Engineer / Java Developer / Mobile Developer – $98,000; and so on. These surface researches that utilise data from job postings hardly reflect details behind the high paying tech jobs and related figures. Many roles are not purely technical but are grouped into technical roles listing. Companies are hiring pre-post sales engineers along with other IT workers at a frantic pace. Some of the high in-demand positions are related to Cybersecurity, R, Julia, Hadoop, Scrum Master, DevOps, SAP HANA, Cassandra, Cloudera, OpenStack, CloudStack, Oculus, Chef, Pig, MapReduce, Puppet, the list is endless. These new-age skills reflect the shift from large firm’s software to mobile devices, cloud computing, and remote servers hosting. There might be temporary intrinsic trends like a Hadoop skilled will get higher compensation than Java or an iOS developer gets higher salaries than an Android developer. These intrinsic trends are mere demand and supply impact over a short time period.

Topics: SP Jain School of Global Management, Thought Leadership, Disruptive Technologies

This study is part of a research project to understand & gain insights into the current trends pertaining to online vis-à-vis offline gorcery retailing and to identify room for improvement .This  paper is one of the first in a series of papers to be published from the Department of Digital Marketing & Metrics Professional PG programme.

Topics: Marketing, Thought Leadership, Research & Case Studies, Disruptive Technologies

Rapid advancements in the ICTs (Information and Communication Technologies) have propelled conspicuous industry-wide mega-trends during the last three decades. Most of these trends have led to the dissolution of legacy business models, affected pervasive business processes and functions, and have empowered customers and business stakeholders through a deep technology-headed disintermediation that was never seen before. Consequently, this has led to the emergence of various new ventures with novel business prepositions and at the same time has resulted in the demise of some prominent and ‘too big to fail’ business giants. The most imminent question, therefore, is how to envision, recognise and address the profound impacts of various emerging technologies and platforms.

Topics: Dubai Campus, SP Jain School of Global Management, Thought Leadership, Disruptive Technologies