Europe failing to reach digital agenda targets, admits Commission

By Benjamin Fox – Earlier this week (18 June) the commission published its second annual Digital Agenda Scoreboard.

The main targets at risk include plans for a 100 percent increase in research and development spending on digital technology to €11 billion by 2020, broadband coverage cross the whole of the EU, alongside increases in general Internet use and commerce online.

According to the scoreboard, one in three households in Europe is still without internet connection, while just under a quarter of adults have never used the Internet. more> http://tinyurl.com/74dy7ux

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The Future of Retail

By Greg Satell – At the beginning of the dot com boom, many assumed that e-commerce would become an instant success. Eager VC’s threw money at just about any business plan that promised to end the drudgery of shopping with a few clicks of a mouse.

It didn’t work out all that well.

With all the huffing and puffing, e-commerce has a very small impact on total revenues. So how do you inject digital technology into the shopping experience?

The answer lies in what Daniel Rigby calls the “Omnichannel Organization.” more> http://is.gd/KsV7rD

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