Leveraging machine learning and big data, Alibaba developed the revolutionary consumer finance product Ant CreditPay and Zhima Credit that effectively tapped into the massive lower end consumer market in China. Customers with higher credit scores can have more favorable lending terms and access to better services offline such as not having to pay deposits when renting apartment. But will this turn China into a black mirror episode, where society imposes discrimination based on people's scores?
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Rio Tinto – Digging into the Data and Autonomous Vehicle Technologies
Leading mining companies like Rio Tinto are developing and deploying autonomous haulage technologies in-house and using big data to make smarter real-time decisions at the rock face. What are some of the opportunities and challenges presented by these advances?
When Scaling Alone No Longer Scales: Maersk’s Digital Transformation Journey
While Maersk and others in the shipping and logistics industry historically have maintained profits through scaling ship size and market consolidation, new challenges require them to embrace digitalization of the supply chain in order to survive.
The (Data) World Is Not Flat: Microsoft, Isolationism, and Data in the Age of Cloud Computing
How can Azure and cloud services compete against rising international data protectionism?
Stitch Fix: Bringing Big Data and Artificial Intelligence to Fashion
Over the last six years, Stitch Fix has achieved success in the fashion retail space by revolutionizing the shopping experience. But is their business strategy differentiated enough to stay competitive?
Digitization at Intel – the company that ‘created digital’
Intel, the world's semiconductors pioneer, is leveraging digital supply chains to optimize its manufacturing.
UNIQLO: Transformation to a Digital Consumer Retail Company
To respond quickly to the demanding customer needs, UNIQLO has digitized its supply chain to transform into Digital Consumer Retail Company. Does this change accelerate their growth to surpass its competitors in global fast-fashion market?
Free Apple Watch! and other ways Aetna is embracing digitization
Aetna is using digital technologies to create efficiencies in the health insurance supply chain.
Digitalization for survival – Halliburton’s attempt at transforming the oil and gas industry
A world of fully automated robotic rigs may be around the corner. Read how Halliburton plans on going about doing it.
DHL Uses Big Data to Optimize Last-Mile Delivery
How big data creates tremendous value in the last mile delivery for both customers and DHL.