Nike has increased its focus on direct-to-customers strategy and cancelled its contract with Amazon to be able to collect its customer data. Through a series of acquisitions of data analytics and AI-based startups, it plans to use this data to understand customer journey, improve demand predictions at a hyper-local scale and enhance customer experience globally.
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AiFi – Making Retail Store Autonomous using AI
AiFi uses AI, machine learning, computer vision and sensor flow to bring a check-out free experience to any retail store concept.
C3.ai: Stealing the Primes’ Lunch
C3.ai is applying ML and IoT technology to improve how the US DoD maintains billions of dollar’s worth of equipment.
Coursera – Revolutionizing Education For Anyone, Anywhere
As Nelson Mandela once said, “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”Coursera is attempting to do just that by providing “world-class learning for anyone, anywhere”.
Putting AI bots to the test: Test.ai and the future of app testing
“It’s easy to build an app. It’s hard to test it.” – Liu, co-founder of test.ai[1]
With 70,000+ apps already tested, Test.ai is on a mission to “improve the quality of software apps by making app development easier through the power of AI and automation.”
Kensho – made in the Square, trades on the Street
'Ken' means 'seeing'; 'sho' means 'nature' or 'essence'.
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True to its name, Kensho employs AI to see the true nature of data. Kensho has disrupted the financial sector and has made its way into all of the major institutions.
Can Kensho continue to deliver value to its clients?
Smarter, healthier, more productive: how Uptake is revolutionizing heavy industries with AI+IoT
“WE KNOW WHAT FAILURE LOOKS LIKE. Our technology has seen millions of machine failures so you don’t have to. Machines don’t have to break.”
Tonal: Your Entire Gym On The Wall
Ditch the old dumbbells at gym and embrace intelligent workout system at home.
Kaggle: Building a Market for Data Science (and Scientists)
Kaggle is an innovative two-sided platform that connects companies facing hard problems with the data scientists who can solve them.
BCG: Disrupted by People Analytics?
The burgeoning field of people analytics poses a threat to incumbent consultancies.