Open innovation, in which companies and organization source information from external sources, helps businesses approach strategic decisions in a creative manner. UNHCR, whose goals are to implement changes external to its organization, would highly benefit from sourcing information and potential solutions from the very people they are trying to help.
Product Development
Shiseido: How a 150-year-old responds to digital transformation
With online DTC newcomers already taking up a considerable market share, traditional beauty giants try to stay ahead. Shiseido invests in data and digital research and machine learning for product development, acquisitions of AI startups and launched their own Venture Fund – but is it enough?
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Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center: On the Cutting-Edge of Cancer Care
Deep Genomics – can a machine learning start-up accelerate drug development?
Today, it costs billions of dollars and many years to commercialize a novel drug. Can Deep Genomics leverage machine learning to reduce these cost and time requirements?
NIVEA: Leveraging Open Innovation to Drive Product Development in a Race to be the World’s Leading Skincare Company
Utilizing open innovation to drive product development at NIVEA
Will Machine Learning be Pfizer’s Answer to Curing Cancer?
Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has partnered with IBM's Watson Drug Discovery program to accelerate their immuno-oncology drug discovery time. Perhaps IBM Watson's machine learning capabilities will uncover novel therapy combinations for Pfizer that could lead to a cancer cure.
Farmers Business Network: Democratizing agriculture using machine learning
Farmers Business Network (FBN), a HBS grad-founded startup, is disrupting the agriculture sector by crowd-sourcing farmer data. FBN has managed to apply machine learning techniques to aggregated farmer data to generate actionable insights around input use and crop marketing for farmers.
Symantec: Using Machine Learning to Improve Malware Research
As cybercrime grows, the defenders found a new tool for their arsenal: Machine Learning. Symantec implemented a creative approach that harnesses the power of ML to detect sophisticated actors in cyberspace.
The Power of Patient Data: How Flatiron Is Combining Big Data and Machine Learning to Revolutionize Cancer Care
With their machine learning-enabled OncoEMR platform, Flatiron is giving oncologists the power of big data at the point of patient care.
Realizing the Promise of Additive Manufacturing at Boeing
I spent 6 years in the Propulsion Product Development (PD) team at Boeing. During this time, additive manufacturing (AM) has gained recognition as a technological solution that could significantly improve product development cycles, design and manufacturing at Boeing. While Boeing […]