Soon, customers will be able to find out all the information about every apple they buy in the supermarket: the chemicals it has been treated with, when and where it was harvested, how it arrived on the shelf… The only apples that will be packed and added instead of the sales assistant or vendor will be done by a robot.
In the new issue of Lider, Manuela Tašler writes about the stores of the future and how supermarkets are becoming a kind of digital marketplace.
In the topic of the week, you can learn how to utilize a mentor for a brilliant career. As human resources and talents become one of the fundamental prerequisites for company competitiveness, mentors are also gaining an increasingly important role. Unlike large companies that have a meticulously developed mentoring system, small ones do not even consider mentoring, although it sometimes does not require additional resources, writes Željka Laslavić.
Vanja Figenwald writes about political innovation and claims: it is fortunate that parties offer few original economic solutions. In the case of the two major parties, it is not possible to find anything that is not conventional wisdom and long-chewed economic thinking that does not need to be wasted on words in the context of new ideas. Smaller parties, however, offer somewhat more innovative, but most often only more radical solutions.
Matilda Bačelić writes about the metal boom, or how metalworkers are massively buying new machines to remain export competitive. Croatia has become the largest buyer of the most modern metal processing machines in the wider region. The reason is simple: keeping up with the technological pace of the world is the only way to retain foreign customers and open new markets, especially after years of no investment.
