Let’s Get Physical (and Digital): How GE is Shaping The Industrial Internet
General Electric has shocked the world by transforming from an industrial production conglomerate to a digital industrial product-as-a-service provider.
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From Canned Tomato Soups To Personalized Nutrition and Transparency
“The entire food industry is being transformed by the fusion of food, well-being, and technology”, said Campbell’s CEO and president Denise Morrison. [1]
C.H. Robinson: Responding to Uber Freight
C.H. Robinson is the largest freight brokerage business in the United States. How will they respond to the 'Uber-ification' of the trucking industry?
Transforming Ford: Supplying Mobility in a Digital World
Will Ford be a winner in the future of mobility or just produce a 'faster horse'?
McMaster-Carr & 3D Printing: What Happens When Your Product is Digitized
How should McMaster-Carr, a beloved fastener manufacturer and distributor, react as their core product can be easily printed by their consumers within 5 years time?
Digitalization – Shake Shack’s Secret Sauce for Growth
Shake Shack is implementing digital technology throughout the supply chain to aid its rapid expansion. What will happen to the long lines in store and the quality of burgers?
SHAKE SHACK: IS ‘ENLIGHTENED HOSPITALITY’ BECOMING DIGITALIZED?
Digitalization is exposing that fast-casual chains are becoming too slow. Will Shake Shack’s embrace of digitalization enable it to buck this trend, or are its plans for growth fried?
Major League Baseball: A Leader in Live Content Distribution
This is a story of how Major League Baseball (“the MLB”) out-innovated other professional sports leagues (NFL, NBA, NHL) and Silicon Valley (Facebook, Google, Amazon) in response to an increasingly digitalized supply chain for live entertainment content. If you’ve watched […]
Amazon: A role model for supply chain innovation in the wake of digitalization
Given that Amazon is an e-commerce company focused on fast, friction-less delivery, there are few better ways to examine digitalization and the supply chain than to look at Amazon. According to company executives, Amazon is singularly focused on consumers answering […]
Digitalization in K-12 education: Will Boston pass the test?
How can supply chain digitalization help the public sector? One city is looking to find out. Boston is currently exploring Unified Enrollment, a system that would use digital supply chain solutions to transform the school enrollment system.