An increasingly competitive retail landscape and the need to better serve constantly changing consumer demands will force Nordstrom's inventory management model to evolve.
Digitalization
Goodbye To The Big Screen, Hello Everything Else – How Much Is Too Much?
How can traditional Hollywood studios compete in a new, digital world, and where do movie theaters fit in?
Unlocking Telemedicine: Building a 4th dimension in Care Delivery
Digitalization of Healthcare services–Cleveland Clinic ventures into telemedicine
Supply Chain as Source of Competitive Advantage
Digitalization of the Supply Chain: The future is now.
YouTube Effect: A Whole New Supply Chain – Will TV Thrive or Die?
Television ratings are falling [1] and 95% of new television show concepts fail [2], but that’s about to change. Digitization is disrupting the television supply chain – and it’s not only Netflix! Data driven content selection is shifting power to the audience [3], improving demand prediction and accelerating content creation throughput time from months to days. Thought supply chains digitization only applied to manufacturing? Think again!
Race to the Last-Mile: Challenges to Wal-Mart E-Commerce Deliveries
The last mile in the journey from warehousing to home delivery is by far the most expensive one. Wal-Mart is trying to unlock the last-mile riddle using a variety of approaches. Can they succeed where others are failing?
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.
Making the capital-intensive oil & gas industry cost effective through 3-D printing.
Can technologies such as 3-D printing save the capital intensive oil and gas industry. Finding synergies and reducing cost in a low oil price environment has become extremely important for many oil & gas companies to survive, hence employing new technologies may help them reach that goal and stay afloat.
The Doctor will Skype you now — The Digitalization of Medicine
Partners Healthcare, one of the pre-eminent US hospital systems, has started to use TeleHealth to ease access issues, improve efficiency and extend reach in the healthcare field. But what are the longer-term risks of this trend?
All Digital at ALDI: Fast Times in Supermarket Tech
ALDI, a leader in the global grocery industry, finds itself in the crosshairs of the steady march of digital innovation. Can it transform its supply chain to succeed in a digital-first world?