Salesforce has been a leader in the pursuit of cutting-edge technologies addressing the digitalization of sales processes. The Company must continue to do so, if it is to maintain its foothold as the #1 provider of customer relationship management (CRM) software in the United States.
Product Development
Personalized Styling at Scale: What is the right balance between machine and human input?
Stitch Fix delivers personalized styling at scale through a combination of machine-learning algorithms and human input. As they continue to scale into new markets and new business lines, what is the right balance of machine vs. human input?
Crowdsourcing a moonshot: can a redesigned toilet help India win the battle against human waste?
Crowdsourced challenges can spur unprecedented innovation leaps at stalled industries. However, these challenges must be quickly inscribed into a believable road to market path to bring to life commercially viable products. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation faced a similar challenge when it tried to revolutionize sanitation in the emerging world by reinventing the toilet with open innovation mechanisms.
Can Yelp use AI to Disrupt its Business Model?
Can Yelp use AI to Disrupt its Business Model?
Additive Manufacturing Takes Flight – GE Aviation’s Integration of 3D Printing to Enable Innovation
GE, a manufacturing conglomerate recently under heavy scrutiny for its operational capabilities, is heavily invested in re-imagining how its aviation business innovates and operates through the use of additive manufacturing.
The democratization of energy: How machine learning is empowering both the consumer and the utility
The advent of technological advancements in the power industry is fundamentally changing how we produce and consume electricity, improving grid management as well enabling the creation of new business models: Enel Green Power ('Enel') is at the forefront of this transition, and redefining what it means to be a utility company.
When HHS becomes iOS: Harnessing Open Innovation to Combat the US Opioid Crisis
Can same approach that delivered an open source operating system and the free encyclopedia help address the opioid crisis?
Beauty in the Age of Individualism: Sephora’s Data-Driven Approach
Sephora harnesses user data to offer pinpointed product recommendations, offers, and loyalty incentives
When Counting Steps and Tracking Sleep Is Just The Beginning – What’s Next for Fitbit?
With the advent and further sophistication of machine learning, Fitbit is positioned to do more than just track your fitness and activity data.
The Perfect Fit? Adidas Sprints Ahead with 3D Printing
Adidas has become a first mover within the footwear industry in response to the advent of additive manufacturing (also known as 3D printing), and must navigate through certain hurdles in order to shift the traditional footwear landscape.