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digital technology and supply chains
Digitalizing the art trade: Sotheby’s became friends with eBay, but can it warm up to blockchain?
In recent years, Sotheby's successfully adopted to digitalization, shifting many of its auctions to online marketplaces. Nowadays, however, Blockchain technology is threatening to dramatically disrupt the $60 billion art market and to diminish Sotheby's role in the supply chain of art.
Shrinking the Supply Chain: Target needs an integrated digitalization strategy to thrive as an omnichannel retailer
While many big-box brick-and-mortar retailers focus on closing stores and cutting costs, Target (NYSE: TGT) is bucking the trend by opening new stores, renovating existing locations, and pouring money into its physical infrastructure. To be a successful omnichannel retailer in […]
A Patient’s Perspective – How Antidote is Digitalizing Clinical Trial Patient Recruitment in the US
80% of clinical trials shut down prematurely due to an inability to recruit sufficient patient numbers. Antidote is empowering patients to find relevant clinical trials, shifting the supply chain of patient enrollment.
The Disruptor: the Costco of the Internet
Increasingly, e-commerce companies compete on faster – and usually free – shipping for consumers. Despite the use of advanced technology, even Amazon, the dominant market player with large scale, lost billions of dollars on shipping. How can other e-commerce operators compete in this arms race of faster shipping? Jet.com offers an interesting solutions.
Digitization at Intel – the company that ‘created digital’
Intel, the world's semiconductors pioneer, is leveraging digital supply chains to optimize its manufacturing.
RFIDs, bar codes and health care costs
A nonprofit hospital system is digitalizing its supply chain to lower cost and improve operational efficiency.
Convoy: ‘Uberization’ of Trucks
How Truck Tech will change a highly fragmented, aged, $700 billion industry?
Nuclear Digitalization: Westinghouse’s Critical Challenge
In May 2017, Westinghouse Electric Company (“Westinghouse”) CEO José Gutiérrez told an industry gathering that his company would be exiting its historic bankruptcy proceedings “leaner, stronger and more competitive” [1]. However, with the advent of the digital era in power […]
Ferrero: Sweetening the Supply Chain One Chocolate at a Time
Investing in digital technology is allowing Ferrero to better manage its complex procurement process.