Digital Winners and Losers

February 11, 2020

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Digital technologies are upending many industries and companies. Think about Uber’s impact on the taxi business or Amazon’s impact on retail stores.

For this assignment, we would like you to identify companies/organizations that you think are winning or losing. Just work on either winners or losers. Please focus on just one organization. Tell us why they are a winner or loser. Discuss elements of how they create and/or capture value that is leading you to call them a winner or loser.

Create an approximately 750-word post to make your contribution on digit.hbs.org by 6pm on Feb 11. Please create appropriate tags for your post including if it is a “winner” or “loser.” Please also respond to and comment on three other posts. Feel free to use graphics, data, videos and links to other sites to corroborate your points.

Selected posts will be discussed in class.

Submitted (79)

Ghost kitchen attacks 7-eleven’s food business
H&M
Last modified on February 11, 2020 at 5:44 pm
Seeing potential in Japanese food delivery market, Uber Eats, Door Dash and several other platformers are entering Japan. This competition has just begun and it is difficult to predict who will win, but since it seems that food delivery business [...]
Commonwealth Bank achieves digital primacy in the Australian banking market
Brian Westlake
Last modified on March 11, 2020 at 9:04 am
Commonwealth Bank has Australia's (and maybe the World's) best banking app
Samsara and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)
Jared V.
Last modified on February 11, 2020 at 6:02 pm
The shift to “Industry 4.0” presents a unique opportunity for startups to emerge and win. One of the early winners in this race so far is Samsara, which provides its customers with end-to-end solutions across a variety of industries, giving [...]
China Literature: Winner in Content Creation
PZ
Last modified on February 10, 2020 at 6:15 pm
Company Overview China Literature is the leader in the online literature market in China. It is an online platform that connects writers and readers. As of June 30, 2019, China Literature had approximately 8 million writers, 12 million online literary [...]
Introducing a digital winner Wattpad! “A place where stories live and discovered”.
Viria Vichit-Vadakan
Last modified on February 11, 2020 at 5:50 pm
Wattpad! "A place where stories live and discovered”. A new destination for writers.
EverlyWell: A digital health platform for user-driven lab testing
Matt B
Last modified on February 11, 2020 at 5:22 pm
In healthcare, digital disruption often occurs via strategic business model innovation as opposed to radical technological transformation. EverlyWell is winning in the lab testing space using exactly that approach.
Uber vs. Taxi
Carla SanchezArmas
Posted on March 31, 2020 at 9:21 pm
Previous to entrance of Uber in public transportation market (in 2009) the service provided by taxis, in general, was very deficient and expensive. Uber’s entrance broke the monopoly that taxi drivers had in each city, particularly in airports. Uber’s unique [...]
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