Driving Digital Transformation

April 30, 2018

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For this final blog post, please pick one company that you are familiar with (e.g., a company you worked at). First, describe the current challenges and opportunities the company is facing due to digital transformation. Then recommend changes the company needs to make to address these challenges or take advantages of these opportunities. In your post, please consider any organizational changes the company needs to make, and potential internal resistance when implementing your recommendation (and strategies to overcome such resistance).

Create an approximately 1,000-1,500 word post to make your contribution on d3.harvard.edu/platform-digit by 6pm on April 30. Please create appropriate tags for your post. Please also respond to and comment on three other posts by May 1. Feel free to use graphics, data, videos, and links to other sites to corroborate your points.

Submitted (58)

Emirates NBD, an almost perfect digital transformation
Lama
Posted on April 30, 2018 at 11:53 am
An increase in mobile penetration rate and connectivity speed in the emerging markets and the Middle East specifically has opened the road for disruption in several industries. Big players long advantaged not only by years of experience but also by [...]
Pearson: Always Learning …Except in Digital Transformation
Sairah
Posted on April 30, 2018 at 3:03 pm
Pearson struggles to transform itself from a publishing company to an education technology company.
Deloitte: when audit turns digital
Y.Z.
Posted on April 29, 2018 at 4:18 pm
Can a 2000+ year old industry reinvent itself at once ?
BCG: Disrupted by People Analytics?
Carlfuda
Posted on April 23, 2018 at 9:37 am
The burgeoning field of people analytics poses a threat to incumbent consultancies.
Massachusetts General Hospital: Digitizing Patient Care
EIO
Last modified on April 30, 2018 at 3:05 pm
Hospitals face some of the most daunting digital challenges: an unprecedented growth in unstructured data, the need to standardize IT platforms, and increases in sophisticated cyber threats. On top of that, hospitals are also facing pressure to deliver digital care.[1] [...]
Western Union: Leading or Lagging Digital Transformation?
Hans Latta
Posted on April 28, 2018 at 8:28 am
As mobile payments and blockchain tech challenge the status quo of cross-border money transfers, Western Union must digitally transform itself at the right pace... or risk going the way of the telegraph.
Nielsen: Big Data or Bust
MHS
Posted on April 29, 2018 at 5:39 pm
Nielsen has been a market leader in the big data an analytics space for decades. Will their enormous scale and historic dominance become a threat in the digital age?
Digital Tools for Real Estate
NT
Last modified on April 26, 2018 at 10:07 am
Companies like Z-Rent are providing digital tools for analog managers.
Johnson & Johnson: Embracing Digital Transformation
Ting
Last modified on April 30, 2018 at 1:22 pm
This essay discusses how Johnson & Johnson is embracing digital innovation and transformation in healthcare.
How Do You Do, Fellow Kids?
L
Posted on April 30, 2018 at 7:27 am
Keeping up with fast moving digital industries as a manufacturing company
New York City’s Digital Future
PH
Posted on April 30, 2018 at 10:01 am
As better consumers apps and online experiences increase expectations for all service providers, how can an organization as complex as the US's largest city government respond?
Deloitte X : How to Reinvent Consulting
AyhanSebin
Last modified on April 29, 2018 at 10:38 pm
I have spent 4 years at Deloitte Consulting both as a consultant who had to transform my work and as a manager who took a leading role in Deloitte’s transformation in EMEA region. Deloitte has been facing significant challenges and [...]
Li & Fung Must “Innovate or Die”
HC
Posted on April 29, 2018 at 10:58 am
At 112 years old, and with its market capitalization down 80% from its 2011 peak, Li & Fung must “innovate or die” as a Financial Times article put it bluntly. During the 1980s-90s, Li & Fung used acquisition rollups to [...]
ClassPass: doomed to be the next Blockbuster?
Rachel
Posted on April 30, 2018 at 11:32 am
When the disruptor becomes the disruptee: with the rapid rise of at-home streaming services like Peloton, will ClassPass be able to pivot and survive or will it go the route of Blockbuster post-Netflix?
C&S Wholesale Grocers: Autonomous Vehicles… For Your Apples?
Shiv
Posted on April 29, 2018 at 11:44 pm
The grocery conglomerate CnS Wholesale Grocers may have earned the HBS case spotlight with its human capital management strategies, but its latest innovation does not involve humans at all. In fact, it features 28-inch-wide autonomous robots.
Investment Banks of the Future
M
Posted on April 29, 2018 at 3:42 pm
The availability of capital, high costs of being a public company, and decreases in technology costs have led to disruption in the investment banking industry
Huntington Ingalls – Transforming the Shipyard
EAP
Last modified on April 30, 2018 at 5:33 pm
The largest military shipbuilding company in the United States is beginning its digital upgrade
OLX: the unicorn the Tech World hoped for… or just another fantasy?
Jean Grey
Posted on April 26, 2018 at 12:39 pm
OLX, the world’s leading classifieds platform, missed the opportunity to go through the right Digital Transformation in a timely manner… Will they still be able to succeed?
AIG & Cyber Insurance – Learning to Insure a Digital World
RobD
Last modified on April 30, 2018 at 3:49 pm
One of the World's largest insurers is investing heavily into the most important insurance category of the future: Cyber Insurance.
Hitting the Target in Retail
JY
Last modified on April 30, 2018 at 5:59 pm
Currently Target’s digital sales only account for 5% of total sales, but through management’s strong investments in digital transformation, Target is on a promising path.
SoFi – An Illustrative Tale of Why Fintech Disruption is So Difficult
DM
Last modified on April 30, 2018 at 6:02 pm
SoFi – An Illustrative Tale of Why Fintech Disruption is So Difficult The past two decades have witnessed enormous investments into fintech to disrupt the financial services sector, an industry that has been slow to change in the face of [...]
Upgrading the (Smart)House of Mouse for the Digital Age
HBS2018
Posted on April 30, 2018 at 3:44 pm
Disney has dominated the entertainment industry for decades but now struggles as the internet allows for new video services to disintermediate historical channels and directly form relationships with viewers. To succeed in this new arena, Disney will need to aggressive [...]
HuaCe Media: Leverage the Opportunity Brought by Digital Disruption
Call Me By Your Name
Last modified on April 26, 2018 at 12:10 pm
How HuaCe Media, a traditional TV content production studio in China, should leverage the opportunity brought by digital disruptors and grow its business
Big C Supercenter: the pursuit of omnichannel strategy
Pumchanut
Posted on April 30, 2018 at 1:33 pm
E-commerce is one of the most significant trends in the digital transformation in the 21st century. From a massive e-commerce company such as Amazon in the US and Alibaba in China to a smaller local player like Shoppee, in Southeast [...]
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