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)

Crowdsourcing Alpha: Can Quantopian Re-invent the Hedge Fund?
DSN
Posted on November 18, 2016 at 4:50 pm
FinTech startup bets big on the "wisdom of the crowds" in systematic investing
Nuclear Power Upgrades
EM
Last modified on November 20, 2016 at 3:16 pm
Nuclear power provides 60% of all clean energy sources in America, but this clean power source has slowed in innovation due to public wariness. Exelon Corp has been a global lead in guaranteeing safe nuclear opeartions and digital integration.
Digital Healing for the Broken Heart
Taki Michaelidis
Last modified on November 18, 2016 at 8:10 am
A medical device company introduces remote cardiac monitoring, promising to revolutionize heart failure care.
The “Smart House” is on its way.. or is it?
E
Last modified on November 21, 2016 at 10:53 pm
Is Nest leading the way towards our dream smart home?
Bezos, the Washington Post and the future of news publishing
Smithovic
Last modified on November 18, 2016 at 5:33 pm
When Jeff Bezos acquired the Washington Post out of the blue in 2013, the media community was shocked. Three years later, it all makes sense.
What do you get when you cross a lawyer and a computer? A better lawyer!
DA
Last modified on November 18, 2016 at 5:23 pm
Can computers save the most depressed profession in the country? kCura is building the software to rethink the dreaded document review process.
Supermarkets, going the way of the dodo?
arc
Posted on November 18, 2016 at 2:37 pm
With the advent of online groceries shopping such as Amazon Fresh, could supermarkets face the same fate of Blockbuster and Borders? Groceries retailers are mixing new technologies and old traditions to evolve and avoid extinction.
Digitalization And Cows: A Productive Marriage. MOOOOOO
SSSSS
Posted on November 18, 2016 at 5:42 pm
Can digitalization transform the dairy products industry? There are good reasons to think it is.
CVS: From Consumer Value Stores to Consumer Value App?
Wissam Abourizk
Posted on November 18, 2016 at 4:23 pm
The retail pharmacy giant CVS recently accepted the digitization challenge and underwent a successful transformation from a drugstore chain to a provider of innovative healthcare services
Walmart working with Uber; Two Giants Join Forces
Ronnie Palejwala
Posted on November 18, 2016 at 3:18 am
As it strives to maintain its global leadership, Walmart has joined hands with ride-sharing giant Uber, among other technological advancements.
Digitalization in Microfinance in U.S.
ashin
Posted on November 18, 2016 at 4:53 pm
How is Grameen America expanding financial inclusion in the U.S. through microfinance?
If the couch don’t fit, you don’t have to commit
Mike Helou
Posted on November 16, 2016 at 8:38 pm
Wayfair is bringing AR and VR technology to your living room to change the way consumers experience online shopping
Where the Rubber Meets the Road – Literally
Alison
Posted on November 18, 2016 at 4:23 pm
As the automotive industry is in the midst of a revolution, some of the seemingly minor innovations are easily overlooked. That said, until we figure out how to commercialize a hover-car these vehicles aren’t going anywhere without wheels!
Smart Services in the City of Dubai
Lama
Last modified on November 17, 2016 at 4:05 pm
How Dubai is harnessing the power of digitization to offer smart services to citizens and tourists
OpenEnglish: Connecting Latin America with native English teachers
Catherine Brown
Last modified on November 18, 2016 at 4:36 pm
Learning a second language is a need in today's globalized world. Teaching a language has traditionally required physical assets and local teachers. Can this model be improved? OpenEnglish says yes.
Five Minutes to the Boarding Gate: How Technology is Improving Airport Efficiency
Nikki
Posted on November 18, 2016 at 6:48 pm
Advanced biometric identity products can help improve safety, security, and efficiency in a number of different industries. In the travel industry, Immigration services in airports have been adopting biometric identity products to reduce queues and move more passengers through safely and securely. [...]
The Internet of Things: Your Future Doctor!
Saurav Patyal
Last modified on November 18, 2016 at 4:26 pm
"Imagine you walk into a room, and the room is dynamic. With your permission, you are interacting with things going on in the room". - Eric Schmidt, Google chairman, on IoT[0]
The Shazam of Fashion
kt
Last modified on November 17, 2016 at 1:10 pm
Want the same pair of sunglasses Kris Jenner was wearing in the latest episode of Keeping Up With The Kardashians? Now you, too, can own them in just a few clicks!
Digitalization of maintenance systems in capital-intensive heavy industries
DS
Last modified on November 18, 2016 at 4:10 pm
Based on a consulting project done for one of the largest global chemicals’ corporations – names and specifics sanitized to maintain client confidentiality. Everyone who has ever worked at or with heavy industry facilities knows just how important the equipment [...]
A video game that transforms the job market
CFallert
Last modified on November 15, 2016 at 9:05 pm
We are experiencing increased inequality in the US economy. According to economists Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, US wealth inequality increased significantly over the past forty years. In the 1970’s, the top 10% of US families earned less than 10% [...]
Eyes and ears in the sky
Stefan
Posted on November 16, 2016 at 11:59 pm
How a revolution in satellites drives unique insights about our planet
Tracking Employee Health: Fitbit Uses Wearable Technology to Crack the B2B Market
Spencer Bradley
Posted on November 18, 2016 at 4:43 pm
As healthcare costs continue to rise, Fitbit is using its wearable activity trackers to help employers reduce their health expenditures.
Is Current the Future? A look at GE’s recently launched startup, ‘Current by GE’
BAL
Posted on November 17, 2016 at 8:33 pm
GE’s energy services startup launched in 2015 promises to transform the energy sector through digital innovation, but will it live up to their claims?
Moving away from the local grocer
bf
Posted on November 18, 2016 at 3:14 pm
Traditional, widely distributed grocery store chains are learning to deal with the threat of fast, cheap, convenient e-grocers.
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