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Articles by Chiara Marcati
The circular economy of hype: Inside AI’s self-financing machine
When Oracle Corp. announced a multi-hundred-billion-dollar computing deal with OpenAI last September, its stock jumped 30-40 per cent in a single day. The $330 billion leap in market value was larger than Oracle’s total revenue for the previous decade. The company later admitted it would lose money on the contract. Nvidia pledged $100 billion to OpenAI while selling it the very chips that spending would finance.
Digital consumers in the Middle East: Rising adoption and opportunity
The region’s consumers have embraced digital channels, and their spending is set to grow. New research highlights how companies can generate more value from this segment in the coming years. Each year, companies invest hundreds of billions of dollars in their digital channels to improve customer experience (and ultimately delight consumers). But ensuring this spending bears fruit requires organizations to gain an understanding of what consumers actually want. These preferences can evolve rapidly.
Digital consumers in the Middle East: Rising adoption and opportunity
By Abdellah Iftahy, Tom Isherwood, Chiara Marcati, and Karan Soni The region’s consumers have embraced digital channels, and their spending is set to grow. New research highlights how companies can generate more value from this segment in the coming years. Each year, companies invest hundreds of billions of dollars in their digital channels to improve customer experience (and ultimately delight consumers).
Using advanced analytics to improve performance in customs agencies
Machine learning and other analytics tools can improve fraud detection and strategic workforce planning, among other potential benefits. Customs agencies around the world are under immense and growing pressure at a time of rapidly increasing cross-border e-commerce, shifting regulatory environments, and supply chain disruptions, including repercussions from COVID-19 and the war in Ukraine.
Work and women in the Middle East and North Africa: A $1.5 trillion opportunity
Advancing the role of women in society and the economy is a key driver for change in the Middle East. Increased female participation in professional and technical jobs can turbocharge economic growth in a region that will be significantly affected by the Fourth Industrial Revolution—making their participation all the more critical. That’s the focus of our new report, Women at work: Job opportunities in the Middle East set to double with the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
Promoting gender diversity in the Gulf
Despite being significantly underrepresented in C-suites and corporate boards across the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states,1 women are making strides. Indeed, a McKinsey research project2 finds that gender diversity is gaining a place on the corporate agenda across the GCC as companies there increasingly recognize the potential of women leaders to enhance organizational effectiveness.
Winning the rush for data services in the Middle East and Africa
Demand for data is set to explode. The region’s telecom companies must position themselves now to take advantage. Most new industries reach the same crossroads after a period of rapid growth. On one side lie territories where revenues, customers, and even margins will probably continue their dizzy upward path; on the other, maturing markets where it’s starting to become clear that the old model has run its course.
Promoting gender diversity in the Gulf
Companies in the region increasingly recognize the potential of women leaders to enhance organizational effectiveness. Despite being significantly underrepresented in C-suites and corporate boards across the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states,1 women are making strides.
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