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)

The Profit…is Out There
Art Vandilay
Posted on November 17, 2016 at 2:40 pm
Progress in digital imaging and satellite technologies will enable a new era of resource-tracking and resource management. How will environmentalists, governments, and investors capitalize on this new technology?
Defeating Terrorism With Big Data
Mike M
Posted on November 17, 2016 at 6:13 pm
“This is a new way of war-fighting.” – Mary Beth Long, former Assistant Secretary of Defense
Burberry: Digitizing the Trench
inohara
Last modified on November 17, 2016 at 9:52 pm
Burberry's path to digitization through use of social media, online customization, and collaboration with tech companies.
Bigbelly’s Talking Trash Cans
Alex
Posted on November 18, 2016 at 4:51 pm
Cities are getting smarter – starting with their garbage bins
Will V-Commerce Replace E-Commerce at Wayfair?
MTS
Last modified on November 18, 2016 at 5:56 pm
What Wayfair needs to compete in the new age of V-Commerce
Autonomous Cars: Because Snapchating While Driving is a Millenial Must
Jules E
Last modified on November 18, 2016 at 4:25 pm
Autonomous cars are a major digital disruption to an old technology, but what's stopping us?
Our Modern Surveillance Society
Ellyn-C
Posted on November 18, 2016 at 4:50 pm
While the prevalence of surveillance cameras in metropolitan areas continues to increase, the technology does not always deliver on its promise to prevent crime. As law enforcement agencies rethink the use of video surveillance, societies must assess the trade off [...]
DHL Vision Picking – Blurring Digitization and Manual Labor Through Augmented Reality
Nate
Posted on November 17, 2016 at 6:01 pm
DHL's Vision Picking glasses use AR to enhance warehouse pickers efficiency and effectiveness as it moves toward Industry 4.0
Rest Devices Inc. – Will They Deliver Nursery 2.0?
ConcernedCitizen
Posted on November 18, 2016 at 5:45 pm
Rest Devices Inc. is an early stage startup, founded by three former MIT students, that seeks to revolutionize the baby nursery through the Internet of (Baby) Things. Can they transform the baby products industry, steal market share from baby industry [...]
All hands on deck! How Miniluxe is disrupting the the nail salon industry with data
ELR1989
Posted on November 18, 2016 at 3:03 pm
How a dynamic and data driven new company, Miniluxe, is revolutionising the nail salon industry
Battle for eyeballs: does the BBC face extinction?
Jack
Last modified on November 20, 2016 at 4:31 pm
With the UK finding itself in deeply uncertain political times, the importance of the BBC’s role as an impartial source of information that holds those in power to account only increases. However, its very existence is thrown into doubt by [...]
The future of money-transferring
Y.Z.
Posted on November 18, 2016 at 1:02 am
“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
From physical to digital – Magic: the Gathering
Brandon
Posted on November 15, 2016 at 3:05 pm
Magic: the Gathering is a collectible card game born of the physical realm which has increasingly migrated to digital over the past years
Misunderstanding the American Electorate
Kumerica
Last modified on November 18, 2016 at 4:59 pm
How digitization is destroying our ability to predict election outcomes
The Ethics of AI: Robotic Cars, Licensed to Kill
Nic
Last modified on November 17, 2016 at 8:24 pm
Google’s self-driving cars will make an immense difference in reducing road-related deaths. But in the case of an unavoidable accident, how do we train AI to make a judgment call on who should die?
HomeKit – Apple’s next Big Thing?
JM
Posted on November 18, 2016 at 3:49 pm
Apple - the world’s largest public company reported its first decline in revenues and net income for the first time since 1997. Has the tech giant lost its innovative touch? Is its push into smart homes a lost cause or [...]
Replicating MPESA: Lessons from Vodafone(Safaricom) on why Mobile Money fails to gain traction in other markets
DM
Last modified on November 20, 2016 at 10:17 am
The success of MPESA, Kenya’s premier online mobile money transfer and financing system has proven very difficult to replicate in other emerging markets. In Kenya, MPESA has been wildly successful. Launched in 2007, MPESA allows users to send money to [...]
The Arizona Cardinals Competitive Advantage: Virtual Reality
GB
Posted on November 15, 2016 at 5:30 pm
Carson Palmer and the Arizona Cardinals' competitive advantage: virtual reality... How this technology can allow NFL owners to have their cake (win games) and eat it too (maximize profits)
AccorHotels: Battling against Online Travel Agents
Piriya Thepkanjana
Last modified on November 18, 2016 at 5:59 pm
“There are many new participants in the value chain and every one of them is trying to eat some of the cake” --- Sebastien Bazin, CEO of Accor Hotels (2)
Streetline – Leading the way for ‘Smart Parking’
SD
Posted on November 17, 2016 at 1:24 pm
Transforming parking through Internet of things to better your time, money, (smart) city and climate change...
Transforming the life cycle of education
Anonymous
Posted on November 18, 2016 at 3:22 pm
Bridge International Academies uses technology to disrupt the lifecycle of education in low-income communities
Quantopian: the innovation funnel meets hedge funds
Keith Chu
Last modified on November 18, 2016 at 2:55 pm
Boston-based fintech company Quantopian lets users test and create equity trading strategies, and deploys capital against crowd-sourced algorithms.
Is Your Next Burrito an Emoji Away?
Addison Phillips
Posted on November 18, 2016 at 5:52 pm
Soon a burrito emoji will trigger an order at some restaurant, it is Chipotle’s job to make sure it is theirs.
HD Video – Ambarella’s Chip That Makes It Happen
EAP
Posted on November 18, 2016 at 5:57 pm
Drones are capturing HD videos from never-before-seen vantage points. GoPro cameras continue to amaze sports enthusiasts with new images of the game, while cars' safety improve from rear-view and all-view cameras. Behind each of these examples is an HD video [...]
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