Activision Blizzard: It’s a New Era of Interactive Entertainment
One video game company is riding the wave of digital transformation to introduce its long-adored franchises to new audiences around the world.
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Too lazy to get up and turn off the lights? Now you can do it from your smart phone
This post explores how Phillips is embracing the rise of IoT by building smart light bulbs that can be controlled from a mobile phone.
Sephora: Bringing Beauty to the People
Sephora, frequently lauded for its digital innovation in retail, has found a way to not only participate in the beauty industry’s digital revolution, but to push the envelope through various technological initiatives, both in stores and online. This is manifested in […]
The ZocDoc will see you now…
In Boston, the average patient must wait 66 days to receive a simple physical exam. The growing demand for services in the setting of worsening physician shortages has created great difficulty in scheduling care. One man discovered this the hard way after a sudden injury, but is his solution the start of something even bigger?
AMAZON IS BUILDING BRICK AND MORTAR BOOKSTORES. SERIOUSLY.
Brick-and-mortar bookstores are among the first casualties on the path that led Amazon from Jeff Bezos’ garage to the US$380b+ company it is today. Many have been convinced that the operating leverage Amazon enjoys have doomed traditional brick-and-mortar retail to extinction. Now Amazon is opening its own brick-and-mortar retail locations. What on Earth is happening, and what can we learn from it?
Dare to dream: A world without lancets
All around digitisation of blood glucose monitoring
Pill Popping Made Easy
Startup PillPack shows us how drug-dispensing robots and textable pharmacists can provide peace of mind at no extra cost to customers.
Drones to the rescue!
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 necessary for you to properly treat your patient. The nearest hospital is several hours away by car, but you are certain that your patient would not survive more than a couple hours without the transfusion. What should you do?
Just ask a nurse to text Zipline for a blood delivery by drone!
Internet of Commercial Buildings: Changes at Johnson Controls
Digitization and the “Internet of Things” is driving change throughout the lifecycle of a commercial building.
HBS: Educating leaders who make a difference in an increasingly digital world?
Operating in a digital world The mission of Harvard Business School is to educate leaders who make a difference in the world. The school delivers on that promise with operating mechanisms that include the classroom experience where we learn from […]