‘When one is starting a new brand, digital is the best bet’—20 quotes on digital transformation
From content to commerce, these quotes from the week of September 5-11 capture tech impacts sweeping across the world!
Launched in 2014, StoryBites is a weekly feature from YourStory, featuring notable quotable quotes in our articles of this past week (see the previous edition here). This special series of quotes focuses on the increasing impact of digital media around the world. Share these 20 gems and insights with your colleagues and networks, and check back to the original articles for more insights.
See also our pick of Top Quotes of 2021 on Entrepreneurship, Investment, Digital Transformation, Storytelling, The India Opportunity, Pandemic Resilience, Failure Recovery, Design, and Art.
Synthetic data retains all the insights of real-world data but not the identities. It helps overcome data privacy and regulatory issues concerning data sharing. - Hardik Dave, Indika AI
The ability to collect, analyse and derive insights from data has effects across the value chain of your game. - Anunay Kumar, Google Cloud
Developers will need to minimise the infrastructure complexity and accelerate data insights. - Chirag Sanghani, Google Cloud
CXOs today are competing in a very aggressive market, they are expected to make instant decisions with constantly changing data. - Saurabh Moody, Super AI
As social media sites such as Facebook, Instagram, Tumbler, and Pinterest gain popularity, the photography market is likely to witness rapid growth in the coming years. - Parminder Sahni, VsnapU
You shouldn’t think of monetising your video immediately. First, you should build a community of loyal and organic subscribers. - Manish Pandey
In a world where there’s an app for nearly everything, competitors abound, and we’re all facing some level of information fatigue on a daily basis, startups can’t afford to go back and integrate UX later. - Lauren Celenza, DesignUp 2022
The regulators will always continue to play the role in terms of watching out what's okay and what's not. And hence, the regulations will drive a whole lot of technology decisions. - Lingraju Sawkar, Kyndryl
Trust is the most important currency in healthcare. - Gaurav Agarwal, 1mg
The gender gap in tech is large and certainly cannot be addressed overnight. - Kavitha Thangasami, Exterro
Online research is the primary discovery tool for credit goods. Almost 55% of customers consult online resources or suggestions for credit products. - Pallav Jain, ShopSe
When a customer faces friction, it usually causes a drop-off and that affects revenue for merchants. - Rohit Kumar, The Quantum Hub
Automation is rife. From machines and vehicles to transactions and services, almost everything is getting automated. - Pranjal Kamra, Finology Ventures
Automating invoicing operations becomes essential to ensure the accuracy of invoices generated under e-invoicing. - Archit Gupta, ClearTax
With the rapid development in the proptech domain, the use of AR/VR or AI to help homebuyers expedite the process of closing deals will help provide developers with better liquidity. - Harsh Vardhan Patodia, CREDAI
Giving consumers a sense of community and convenience are some other key metrics that companies have to focus on today. - Rajan Manickavasagam, Google Cloud
The progressive shift to community governance and decentralisation will be realised with a focus on trustlessness, security, and stability. - David Gogel, dYdX Foundation
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Today, (the dominance of ecommerce giants) is a problem everywhere... these guys have become so big that it’s uncontrollable. - T Koshy, ONDC
The theme of retail today is to make personalisation the key. - Naren Kachroo, Google Cloud India
When one is starting a new brand, digital is the best bet. You can create demand and presence for your product. But after a point, offline is the way forward. - Abhishek Shah, Almo
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