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The ethics of social marketing

The potential value of data inspired British mathematician and entrepreneur in the field of data science and customer-centric business strategies. Clive Humby to claim “Data is the new oil.” And in the right hands it is. Here’s why. Because by using data, people can be manipulated. And that constitutes power. The recent scandal involving arguably the most powerful head of state and the largest social media platform is a perfect example of this. In what is considered one of the biggest data breaches the world has ever seen, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg had for many years allowed 3rd party…

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The impact of AI on Customer Relationship Management and the Customer Product Adoption Processes

Dr Myles Wakeham, Mr Carl Wakeham and Ms Maria Hamman INTRODUCTION TO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Artificial Intelligence (AI) refers to the creation of human-like intelligence that can process, learn, reason, plan, and discern natural language. AI comes in three forms, namely, narrow AI, which we are involved with on a daily basis and which is designed to perform specific tasks within an area (technology with intelligence in a particular domain) and general AI which is not area-specific and can learn and perform tasks anywhere and finally strong AI, which is an artificial super intelligence. Thus far, we…

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IMM Graduate School Online Open Day

 Our CEO, Dalein van Zyl, will tell you more about the IMM Graduate School, and share some exciting developments planned for the institution. Angela Bruwer – Academic Head of Faculty will briefly discuss our range of qualifications in marketing and supply chain management, as well as IMM’s unique teaching methodology. Faculty will also take some questions and explain the curricula of each qualification we offer.

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Names, like sticks and stones, can hurt you. Just ask Corona — the beer, not the virus.

The coronavirus is currently a trending topic and a major public health hazard worldwide. But at the same time, it is also not doing the Mexican beer brand of the same name any good. Being linked to something like the corona virus is something you absolutely do not want as a brand. The name corona virus comes from the Latin word corona, meaning crown or halo. Under an electron microscope, the image of the virus is reminiscent of a solar corona. In a recent article published by nytimes.com (2020) the following statement was made – Grupo Modelo’s Corona beer drew attention…

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