Amazon
Overview of Amazon’s platforms and core concepts that drive their successful delivery and capture of value.
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From a Presidential Campaign to a Data Analytics Start-Up – Civis Analytics
Effectively harnessing data analytics and machine learning allow campaigns and companies to improve the ROI of marketing costs and to gain deeper insight into consumer data to make better business decisions.
Transformation of Big Blue
Decline of IBM since 1980s due to being disrupted by software and internet companies.
Instagram: Social Media’s Big Winner
The ‘Gram’s rise to dominance.
SpotHero Kicks Parking Frustrations to the Curb
SpotHero's platform has alleviated information asymmetry issues for parkers while also helping garages fill their unused capacity.
YouTube TV: On Top of the Over the Top World
To combat cord cutting, traditional and digital TV distributors have launched services bringing TV to customers over the internet – or “over the top”. YouTube’s existing user generated content allows it to license fewer networks for its TV service and to be closer to profitability than its competitors.
SONY: from disruptor to disrupted
How does a company highlighted at the Harvard Business School as a preeminent example of disruptive innovation become a loser?
EcoCash – How a telco turned a cash crisis into a cash cow
In the face of a cash crisis, Econet, Zimbabwe's largest telco, introduced a mobile digital payment solution that saw the company become a market leader in the provision of financial services.
Will the innovation of e-cigarettes erode NYC’s public health gains from anti-smoking policies?
NYC cut teen smoking in half from 2001 to 2011, but the innovation of e-cigarettes threatens those gains. The city must act quickly to fight a potentially deadly digital disruption.
WeChat: A winner in China but a loser abroad
How WeChat became China’s most successful ecosystem but failed in foreign markets.