The digital grocery ecosystem represents the future of retail, and a successful digital transformation presents significant opportunities for all businesses, especially SMEs. It’s an opportunity to broaden markets, offer customers better experiences, ensure continuity, accelerate growth, and become more resilient. In this blog series we have been exploring the digital grocery … [Read more...] about Digital Maturity, Omnichannels and the SME Grocery
Arts, Culture & Creativity
Talisman the Goat and the Search for Water
With its invigorating vegetation, rivers, waterfalls, and aqua jeweled-toned seas, Jamaica, formerly Xaymaca – the land of wood and water – is world-renowned for its beauty, watercourses and seas that keep visitors and locals revitalized with every refreshing dip. Celebrating World Water Day As a reminder for everyone to play their part in preserving this environmental … [Read more...] about Talisman the Goat and the Search for Water
A glimpse of what the Caribbean could be…
Take a moment to picture the Caribbean 20 years from today. Think about the country where you live. What does it look like? Is it technologically advanced? Is it resilient? Are you safe, productive and happy? Every action that we take today creates the world we will live in tomorrow. It is with this and present challenges facing the region in mind, that the IDB and its … [Read more...] about A glimpse of what the Caribbean could be…
Stories of Change from Trinidad and Tobago’s Public Sector
Ask a passer-by on the streets of Trinidad and Tobago if they think the public sector is innovative and you are likely to be met with a laugh or a look of disdain. We seem to all have horror stories of unimaginable waiting time or an inability to easily access a public service. All it takes is that one incident to forever cast a shadow of doubt that stretches on for … [Read more...] about Stories of Change from Trinidad and Tobago’s Public Sector
When the End is just the Beginning: getting the Caribbean to think big
“I am not closing anything. This is the start. This is the beginning. This is the point from which we move.” These were the words of Caribbean Climate-Smart Accelerator CEO Racquel Moses as she closed the curtain on the first Pivot Event. The two week-long event ended in October with the presentation of nine moonshots for the Caribbean by 2040. The Pivot Event brought … [Read more...] about When the End is just the Beginning: getting the Caribbean to think big