Can a 90-year old company learn to behave like a start-up? Slow growth, ever-changing consumer tastes and the rise of digitally native upstarts are threatening the traditional consumer-packaged goods industry. Unilever’s significant investment in open innovation intends to challenge this trend by collaborating with start-ups to infuse new ideas and practices into the company.
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How Machine Learning is Changing the Way People Explore the World at Airbnb
Guests have checked into Airbnb properties 300 million+ times, in 4.5 million locations across 81,000 cities, and the company collects more than 15 petabytes of data each day. How can Airbnb leverage this data to change the way we travel and experience new places?
Unlocking the Power of Open Innovation in Disaster Relief
How the International Federation of Red Cross is Tapping into the Universal Desire for Purpose & Connection Through Crowdsourcing
Is the Swedish Biotech Start-up Cellink Revolutionizing the Health Care Industry by Playing God?
There is a large shortage of organs available for lifesaving transplants. As a result medical researchers are turning to 3D bioprinting to address the growing shortage. Swedish start-up Cellink is revolutionizing the bioprinting industry with its innovative bioink, making bioprinting more widely accessible.
BlackRock: Is the Future of Investing in Machine Learning?
This post discusses how BlackRock is leveraging AI more broadly and ML specifically for process improvement and product development, which could result in potentially significant revenue generation.
Royal Bank of Canada banks on machine learning as equity research propels into a new paradigm
As one of the first North American banks to incorporate artificial intelligence into equity research, RBC is capitalizing on the opportunity to use machine learning as a way to dramatically improve the speed and accuracy in conducting capital markets research.
AIR Worldwide: Machine Learning’s Role in Risk Modeling
AIR Worldwide is leading the way in utilizing predictive modeling to identify, assess, and mitigate catastrophic risks.
Are Machine Learning Benefits Worth Cyber-Security Risks at Chevron?
Machine Learning can provide immense value in plant maintenance and turnarounds but can a traditionally conservative industry lead in this space?
Spotify: Music Discovery in a World of Discover Weekly
Machine learning has underpinned Spotify's foray into personalized recommendations, distinguishing from earlier players in the arena. How good are its formulae and what are the broader implications of programming taste?
JBS and Robot Butchers
The world's largest meat processing company begins experimenting with machine learning in their plants. Developing and implementing these smart machines, capable of performing skilled and dexterous tasks, is pushing the current boundaries of automation.