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.

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Disrupting Textbooks with Digital Content
m_watson
Last modified on June 27, 2018 at 9:42 am
Traditional educational publishers like McGraw-Hill are forced to grapple with a new reality where content is provided online versus in a heavy, expensive textbook.
OpenEnglish: Connecting Latin America with native English teachers
Catherine Brown
Last modified on November 18, 2016 at 4:36 pm
Learning a second language is a need in today's globalized world. Teaching a language has traditionally required physical assets and local teachers. Can this model be improved? OpenEnglish says yes.
Outsourcing Chores: Groceries On Demand
MHS
Last modified on November 16, 2016 at 3:33 pm
Exploring how digital delivery has made the grocery channel accessible to busy consumers who need to eat, and are willing to pay a premium for fresh food.
Buying Budhist priests via Amazon: Minrevi’s challenge to transform Japan’s funerals
Kat
Last modified on November 18, 2016 at 2:23 pm
Minrevi Co., Ltd., founded in 2009, is now challenging to transform one of the most traditional area of business: Japanese funeral industry. To correct the market failures exist in the industry, Minrevi offers series of untraditional services such as "funeral [...]
Beer Me A Beer
Curtis
Posted on November 18, 2016 at 8:34 am
Alcohol in the Prohibition Era In 1919, the 18th Amendment to the United States Constitution declared the production, distribution, & sale of alcohol illegal. The Amendment was passed in response to vicious competition between suppliers that exerted tremendous pressure on [...]
Enlighted Inc: Nest but better
Haley
Posted on November 18, 2016 at 4:31 pm
Enlighted has broken down the barriers for companies to adopt new sensor technology through a new business model.
From Paper to Clicks: How RetailMeNot Changed How Shoppers Save
kdegs
Posted on November 17, 2016 at 5:58 pm
How one company brought savings into the digital age
Zillow: Has not yet broken the broker model
SB
Posted on November 16, 2016 at 3:26 pm
Zillow has increased public access to home listings through data aggregation and automated pricing, but has not been profitable recently or disrupted the real estate industry entirely.
YRD – First Chinese Online P2P Lending Company listed on the NYSE
N_N
Last modified on November 18, 2016 at 4:01 pm
Yirendai is an online consumer finance marketplace in China connecting investors and individual borrowers, conducting essentially P2P (peer-to-peer) lending business. It was started by the founder of CreditEase, a large financial services company focusing on providing inclusive finance and wealth [...]
Too lazy to get up and turn off the lights? Now you can do it from your smart phone
DK
Last modified on November 18, 2016 at 5:52 pm
This post explores how Phillips is embracing the rise of IoT by building smart light bulbs that can be controlled from a mobile phone.
A New Era of Telemedicine
Shreya
Last modified on November 18, 2016 at 3:01 pm
As the internet and high quality connection services pervade underserved geographies faster than medical expertise, Mèdecins Sans Frontières finds a way to use technology to ensure availability of high quality health care to people across the world.
Augmedix: Taking a Look at Your Next Visit to the Doctor
HR
Last modified on November 17, 2016 at 10:36 pm
Peering into a company using a new business and operating model to give Google Glass a second life.
How to Save the U.S. Postal Service
Beta
Last modified on November 18, 2016 at 4:30 pm
Digitalization may end up saving the USPS from extinction
The digitalization journey of a German manufacturer: How Siemens is increasingly becoming a Tech company
ecanabarro
Last modified on November 13, 2016 at 8:33 pm
Siemens is undergoing a digital reinvention, focusing on data and analytics to protect its leadership position in the industrial equipment and services space.
LEGO in a Digital World
MattM
Posted on November 16, 2016 at 1:15 pm
How the Danish toymaker is keeping pace in an era of digital transformation.
There’s an App for Trash, Too
Pooch
Posted on November 18, 2016 at 4:30 pm
As if “concierge style” door-to-door trash pickup and recycling wasn't fancy enough already...
Burn the Boats: MSFT transformation with Office 365
EDRM
Posted on November 18, 2016 at 1:00 pm
MSFT has forced its cash cow into a software rental model, demanding lower margins at first but ushering in a new era of cloud and mobile first thinking from the top down.
3D Printed Teeth? Digital Dentistry (Sirona) and it’s Threat to Commercial Dental Labs
Sina H
Last modified on November 20, 2016 at 9:51 pm
Digital dentistry has offered vast improvements in the dental care delivery system and is here to stay. While it present a looming threat to commercial dental labs, there is vast potential for them to adapt and provide additional value in [...]
Video Games Are the New Football
Jordan
Last modified on November 18, 2016 at 4:01 pm
Looking to sign the next Cristiano Ronaldo? I'll give you a hint: the millionaire athletes of tomorrow probably aren't going to be 6' 3" and they probably won't bench press 200 lbs. They probably can't even run that fast.
On Dating Apps & Demographics: The Heart Wants What I.T. Wants?
SDB
Last modified on November 18, 2016 at 2:28 pm
How economics and technology can help you find your Tinderella.
Going Once… Going Twice… Sold to Technology!
ABCD
Last modified on November 18, 2016 at 5:02 pm
Ever wonder how the world's most prestigious and mysterious operations might be disrupted by technology? Walk into the infamous art auction house, Sotheby's, and see how the oldest stock on the NYSE has altered its business to keep up with [...]
Sephora’s Digital Makeover
#CE#
Last modified on November 18, 2016 at 1:35 pm
Call it a makeover, just don’t expect it to come from Kylie Jenner’s lip kit
The Drone Buzz: How Kespry Transforms Physical Jobsites into Big Data Sets
Amira
Posted on November 18, 2016 at 1:05 am
What happens when you give a miner, construction worker, and roof inspector a drone?
Should Central Banks Issue Digital Currencies?
Sotaro
Last modified on November 18, 2016 at 6:40 pm
Let’s talk about our most fundamental product and its producers; “cash, and central banks.” In a digital world, some central banks have already developed digital currencies, and changed their operations. What’s next?
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