Digitization Challenge

November 18, 2016

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Choose a company that provides an interesting example of how digital transformation has created opportunities or challenges for business and operating models. A business model defines how a business differentiates itself by creating and capturing value. An operating model defines how that business delivers on that promise. Describe how the organization is using digital technology to develop its business model and operating model, and describe and justify what additional steps you think the organization should consider implementing. Your example can describe a positive (e.g., a success story or best practice) or negative experience (e.g., a business failure).

Note: The post for this assignment should be 600–800 words, and must conclude with a word count such as “(778 words).” Posts should not exceed 800 words.

Submitted (926)

3Derm: A Dermatology Triage System
Anonymous
Posted on November 18, 2016 at 5:28 pm
Using digital technology to improve access to healthcare for those who need it the most.
To use fertilizer or not use fertilizer? That is the question
Maria_Camila Saad
Last modified on November 19, 2016 at 12:09 am
The story of how for the last 10 years Esoko, a for-profit digital technology company in Africa, is giving smallholder farmers the right information at the right time.
The future of banking through cell phones
DK
Posted on November 18, 2016 at 5:59 pm
M-Pesa brings banking to the needy
Supermarkets, going the way of the dodo?
arc
Posted on November 18, 2016 at 2:37 pm
With the advent of online groceries shopping such as Amazon Fresh, could supermarkets face the same fate of Blockbuster and Borders? Groceries retailers are mixing new technologies and old traditions to evolve and avoid extinction.
Electronic Toll Systems: Connectivity, Convenience, and . . . Collections?
Phil Caruso
Last modified on November 18, 2016 at 6:01 pm
Electronic toll collections have revolutionized the highway driving experience.
Can education publishers digitize?
KK
Posted on November 18, 2016 at 1:20 pm
Online textbooks and the impact on giant education publishers
The digitization of a pill
SJain
Posted on November 18, 2016 at 8:36 am
Smart pills to help patients to adhere to their treatment regimens
Can Bitcoins Make Things Cheaper?
Camille D
Posted on November 17, 2016 at 10:58 pm
Bitso is a Mexican Bitcoin exchange that is using the cryptocurrency to offer its customers cheaper and faster international money transfers. Money transfers involving “conventional” currencies (Dollars, Euros, …) require intermediaries at both the sending and receiving ends and, more [...]
Drones to the rescue!
CNH
Posted on November 18, 2016 at 5:50 pm
Imagine you’re a doctor in a rural village in Rwanda hoping to perform a blood transfusion for a pregnant woman in critical condition in order to save her life; however, you do not have the blood supply that would be [...]
Digitize or Die – How the Nation’s Largest Magazine Publisher is Coping with Digital Transformation
MH
Last modified on November 18, 2016 at 5:42 pm
As consumers are no longer engaged by print magazines, the nation’s largest publisher is being forced to innovate, and innovate quickly.
The Smithsonian: How a 170-year-old Museum Leverages Technology
Estelle M.
Posted on November 18, 2016 at 12:01 am
Thinking about the impact of digitization on our economy and society at large the first companies that come to mind are technology companies Uber or Facebook, IT companies like IBM, payment system providers or wearable technology manufacturers. Museums and libraries [...]
Equity Bank: Banking on Mobile
Cookie Monster
Posted on November 18, 2016 at 4:35 pm
How Kenya's Equity Bank is leveraging digital footprints to grow its double-bottom line.
HOW COSTANERA NORTE IS INCREASING HIGHWAY CAPACITY WITHOUT BUILDING NEW ROADS
Francisco
Last modified on November 18, 2016 at 5:55 pm
How highway operators are increasing capacity, decreasing costs and increasing revenues at the same time.
iPod to iRobot: How Our Loyal Devices Are Turning Against Us
L
Posted on November 18, 2016 at 1:22 pm
The Internet of Things is being used as a weapon. Don't turn your back on your DVR.
Rebecca Minkoff and the Digital Store
harajukugirl
Posted on November 17, 2016 at 7:22 pm
Rebecca Minkoff is combining the best of the digital and physical worlds to drive shoppers to her stores.
A Wholly Digital Whole Foods
Naomi
Last modified on November 18, 2016 at 2:37 pm
Whole Foods Market, an American supermarket chain offering natural foods, is leveraging cloud-based software to completely revamp the customer shopping experience.
Bras in a Digital World
E. Haviland
Posted on November 18, 2016 at 5:28 pm
"How do you convince a woman, halfway across the country, to be measured for a bra over the internet?"
Self-Driving… You Out of Business
Regan
Posted on November 18, 2016 at 4:34 pm
Autonomous vehicles will increase safety and convenience on the roads, but at what expense to other industries?
The Kings’ Way: How the Sacramento Kings have Gone Digital
Piersten
Posted on November 18, 2016 at 1:52 pm
Sports are a tradition as old as human kind. What started out as games played primarily for entertainment and leisure has evolved into one of the most powerful industries in the world. From the sponsorship of teams and players, to [...]
Did Kodak Ignore the Digital Revolution?
Brian
Posted on November 15, 2016 at 10:23 pm
Hopefully you don’t pick a company that I know something about – Paraphrasing Professor Shih, former Senior Vice President at Eastman Kodak Company
Lending Club: Can technology fundamentally disrupt how we invest and borrow?
Janick
Posted on November 18, 2016 at 12:57 am
Banking has been around for 700+ years, and is the third most profitable sector in the economy. Financial intermediaries usually rely heavily on physical assesses and people. Is there a leaner way to do this? Lending Club says yes. The [...]
What do you get when you cross a lawyer and a computer? A better lawyer!
DA
Last modified on November 18, 2016 at 5:23 pm
Can computers save the most depressed profession in the country? kCura is building the software to rethink the dreaded document review process.
How Technology is Reinventing the Supermarket: Whole Foods in the Digital Age
Erik
Last modified on November 18, 2016 at 5:39 pm
Whole Foods is incorporating technology into its model to bring customers the grocery store of the future.
Live Music in the Digital Age
AG
Last modified on November 18, 2016 at 3:09 pm
How can an inherently "offline" business use online tools to its advantage?
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