Digitization Challenge

November 18, 2016

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Choose a company that provides an interesting example of how digital transformation has created opportunities or challenges for business and operating models. A business model defines how a business differentiates itself by creating and capturing value. An operating model defines how that business delivers on that promise. Describe how the organization is using digital technology to develop its business model and operating model, and describe and justify what additional steps you think the organization should consider implementing. Your example can describe a positive (e.g., a success story or best practice) or negative experience (e.g., a business failure).

Note: The post for this assignment should be 600–800 words, and must conclude with a word count such as “(778 words).” Posts should not exceed 800 words.

Submitted (926)

Digital Sushi: How Blue C Is Innovating the Restaurant Industry
Anja_A
Posted on November 16, 2016 at 4:30 pm
Blue C is optimizing Just-In-Time delivery to better serve customers, and better manage food production.
Digitalizing Fluke’s Handheld Devices – Connecting Factory Assets
RobertoFacusse
Posted on November 18, 2016 at 3:27 pm
Connecting factories using Fluke's expertise in Electrical Testing - Fluke has invested in a new product called Fluke Connect that enables its devices to continuously monitor an asset, log data and create alerts, all valuable to Fluke's industrial clients.
Digitizing Our Homes
JLuo
Last modified on November 17, 2016 at 10:31 pm
How Amazon is trying to build a bridge between our digital and physical worlds.
Can a Smart Thermometer Stop the Spread of Contagious Illnesses?
XYZ
Last modified on November 20, 2016 at 5:08 pm
In a world where we can instantly find the fastest route to the airport via Google Maps or get real-time Twitter updates on Trump’s presidential transition plan, we are still in the dark ages when it comes to understanding when [...]
Fighting fire with digital data: Boston Fire Department in the 21st Century
Reilly
Last modified on November 18, 2016 at 12:51 pm
Thanks to digitization and new operating models in civic technology, Boston firefighters rush into burning buildings armed with more than just fire hoses.
A Wholly Digital Whole Foods
Naomi
Last modified on November 18, 2016 at 2:37 pm
Whole Foods Market, an American supermarket chain offering natural foods, is leveraging cloud-based software to completely revamp the customer shopping experience.
Prepare for Takeoff: Digital Farming with Drones
Alan Du
Posted on November 18, 2016 at 1:42 pm
There has been much buzz around innovations in the food industry lately: from lazy people getting their meals delivered weekly by mail to weirdos chugging white goo meant to replace actual meals and eating energy bars made with bugs. While [...]
Data-Driven Dress Dealing
A.Pi
Posted on November 18, 2016 at 5:45 pm
Retailers have historically made decisions based on intuition, but what happens when companies like EDITED begin leveraging Big Data to track runway trends, analyze product movement, and recommend pricing and promotions?
Digital Farming
dfeldpausch
Posted on November 17, 2016 at 3:10 pm
How advanced technology and big data are combining to help farmers grow more with less.
Rent the Runway Digitizes High-Fashion
anita
Last modified on November 17, 2016 at 9:51 pm
Rent the Runway uses data and proprietary technology to revolutionize the operational model behind how millennial women shop.
Slideware to software ventures: A new kind of consulting firm
Vincent Vo
Last modified on November 18, 2016 at 2:54 pm
Consulting and corporate partners gear up to battle Silicon Valley startups for digital supremacy
5 things you need to know about the rise and fall of Digg.com (#5 will shock you!)
RaphaelM
Last modified on November 18, 2016 at 4:44 pm
Digg.com, a very successful social platform that disrupted the news industry, completely redesigned its website in August 2010. You won't believe what happened next! (hint: it went wrong!)
Euclid Analytics and Rethinking the IoT for Consumer Goods
Tom S.
Last modified on November 18, 2016 at 12:32 am
Companies like Euclid Analytics are “uploading” the retail store environment.
Instacart – How to Leverage Technology in the Pursuit of Value Creation
MAB
Last modified on November 19, 2016 at 12:40 am
Founded in 2012 by Apoorva Mehta, Instacart benefited from mobile technology to instantly connect customers with shoppers via a simple tapping-to-order process. Mobile technology has enabled the creation of a so-called ‘on-demand economy’ i.e. an economic activity that fulfills consumer [...]
How digital technology is breathing new life into Manulife
HU
Posted on November 18, 2016 at 2:43 pm
Digital technologies are creating unprecedented opportunities and challenges in the life insurance industry. As a result, Manulife is transforming its business model to better navigate and compete in the rapidly changing landscape.
Domino’s: Pizza Giant, or Tech Startup?
AS
Posted on November 18, 2016 at 5:58 pm
How Domino’s Pizza leveraged technological innovation to re-establish itself as one of the top two pizza distributors in the Unites States, and what it means for their future.
How Starwood Hotels Makes It Personal and Makes You Come Back For More
hotelie
Last modified on November 17, 2016 at 12:17 am
Innovation in technology is one of the key elements that enables both the business and operating model of Starwood Hotels & Resorts to remain competitive and relevant to its SPG loyalty members.
Defeating Terrorism With Big Data
Mike M
Posted on November 17, 2016 at 6:13 pm
“This is a new way of war-fighting.” – Mary Beth Long, former Assistant Secretary of Defense
Thriving Cities: GE’s Bright Idea
Paige Sopcic
Posted on November 16, 2016 at 3:06 pm
Have you heard of the newest GE business? Learn how Current, powered by GE is connecting streetlights and gunfire detection.
Changing as Fast as the Weather!
AGedeon
Posted on November 17, 2016 at 8:27 am
The Weather Company has expeditiously transformed from legacy media company to a digital technology powerhouse.
How Will the Wall Street Journal Respond to an Increasingly Digital World
TH
Posted on November 17, 2016 at 6:00 pm
How will the Wall Street Journal continue to adapt as media moves digital
The Age of Smart Iron
Andrew Choi
Posted on November 17, 2016 at 2:50 pm
Digital transformation is not typically associated with the construction industry. Think about the last time you walked past an active construction site. Most of the activity was probably centered around the heavy machinery performing rather basic functions such as digging [...]
Digitizing the Starbucks Experience
JY
Last modified on November 20, 2016 at 8:19 pm
New innovations such as Mobile Order & Pay means that now you will always have time for that Starbucks coffee run....
All hands on deck! How Miniluxe is disrupting the the nail salon industry with data
ELR1989
Posted on November 18, 2016 at 3:03 pm
How a dynamic and data driven new company, Miniluxe, is revolutionising the nail salon industry
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