Even the casting of the rap mogul Sean Combs (or Diddy, if you prefer) was not enough to convince industry veterans that the show could bring in the crowds.
After a decade of struggling to convince industry executives and station managers of the value of pairing audio with visual information on the radio, he said, he has been buoyed by renewed interest in R.D.S., which some see as a new channel for advertisers.
In the latest suit, which seeks $500 million in damages, Spanish Broadcasting reiterates its earlier assertions that Clear Channel and Hispanic Broadcasting tried to undermine Spanish Broadcasting's 1999 initial public offering, convince industry analysts to drop coverage of Spanish Broadcasting and persuade institutional investors to sell their stock in the company.
It is very important to convince industry that they need to adopt more abstract compliance architectures that provide greater flexibility and adaptability to new and evolving regulations.
Especially with the economic recession of that time, it was hard to convince industry to pay for licenses without this proof of concept.
The challenge of morphing in the future will mainly be to convince industry that this kind of technology can bring real advantages in terms of enhanced aerodynamic performance, lower installation impact respect to traditional control surface systems, reduced weight, and equivalent safety level.
Cogisen is getting €2 million under the EU program, which it will use to develop some sample applications to try to convince industry otherwise — and ultimately to get them to buy in and license its algorithms down the line.
Obviously, the biggest challenge for the company is building a market place so secure that it's able to convince industry professionals diamonds can effectively be traded online 'like any other commodity nowadays' (not my words).
Too often, academic researchers seeking corporate support for their work try to convince industry scientists that what they do is great science, notes Michael Amiridis, a chemical engineer and dean of the college of engineering and computing at the University of South Carolina, Columbia.
That's the efficiency and cost-saving carrot it's hoping will convince industry players to buy in to a vision of upgrading their current "hodgepodge" of processes, says co-founder Paul Ellis, whose financial services background led him to the idea of applying blockchain to a sector that's not renowned for innovating business processes without being marched into doing so by the stick of regulation.
