Natura: Will AI Enable the Company to Go Global?
Natura, a multinational Brazilian company known by taking the lead in sustainability and innovation is using AI to expand its direct sales strategy globally.
Healthcare and Wellness
Yes Health: Can AI help diabetes patients improve their fitness?
As anyone who’s ever tried dieting knows, “eating healthy” is usually easier said than done! Yes Health is an app that uses AI to make it easier for overweight patients to track nutritional intake and to offer real-time, highly personalized health suggestions. Can Yes Health carve out a sustainable and profitable niche in the $35B+ digital diabetes care industry?
Peloton – How a $2,000 bike is crushing $300 alternatives and dominating the at-home fitness market
Peloton is dominating the market despite an offering that is $2,000 than similar competitors. How?
Grupo Fleury moves into the new economy
Grupo Fleury, a large Brazilian diagnostics provider, moves to a platform strategy.
Zocdoc: The Yelp for Medicine?
The Zocdoc platform has helped to increase transparency and ease accessibility within the healthcare industry, a space that lags behind most other industries in those areas. In doing so, Zocdoc has opportunities to further expand its offering to continue to benefit doctors, patients, insurers, and its own business interests; however, given the unique dynamics of the healthcare industry, there are significant barriers to Zocdoc that will continue to make platform ubiquity challenging.
Zocdoc: A two-sided platform charging one side
Zocdoc connects patients with healthcare providers. It recently adjusted its pricing structure for several markets to attract new physicians to the site. However, Zocdoc must balance the fee structure of its existing physician base with new account acquisition.
Zencare: Modernizing the search for mental health care
Zencare is a digital platform that helps match people with high-quality, vetted mental health professionals.
SWEAT – The Rise of Kayla Itsines’ Fitness Empire
The SWEAT App, created by fitness influencer Kayla Itsines, emerges a winner in the fitness industry’s digital revolution.
EverlyWell: A digital health platform for user-driven lab testing
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.
Peloton: Winning the fitness battle, losing the economic war
Can Peloton win as a physical and digital product? Will the community aspects of the experience help it to stay afloat? The app might just eat the bike. Read on.