Need a mortgage? There’s an app for that too
"What if we did for mortgages what the Internet did for buying music and plane tickets and shoes?” Quicken Loans “rockets” mortgage lending into the digital age
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Hacking the TOM Beer Challenge
Even with its rapid growth, the beer industry is one of the only “just in time” industries left. It’s an industry weighted down with archaic inventory management and ordering systems, prime for IoT.
FitBit: Say You Want a (New Year’s) Resolution
Are wearables the IoT version of the Master Cleanse? Or can they really stick? It is still early days but whether you actually kept your New Year’s Resolution won’t be a determining factor. Ask your CEO instead.
A Monk in Your Pocket: The Digitization of Mindfulness
As I emerge from the basement of Aldrich, my cell phone finds service and chirps to life. Three new text messages (hi mom!), eight emails, multiple calendar reminders, a software update, two Slack notifications, my weight tracker telling me to […]
GE’s Quirky Idea
GE partnered, invested in, and shared patents with Quirky, a community-led invention platform. The goal was to enable everyday consumers to access connected devices. Would opening GE's patent portfolio to the masses create value for GE, Quirky, and consumers?
LinkedIn’s Economic Graph – The Digital Home of the Global Workforce
How LinkedIn is embracing digitization beyond its core business model
Catalyzing Brilliant Talent in a Digitized World
A look at how Catalant is revolutionizing the talent management space by digitizing the role of a traditional consulting firm.
Virtual Clinical Trials: Pfizer’s Digital Transformation of Pharmaceutical R&D
Pfizer is betting big on “the internet-of-things” to transform the clinical trial design and data acquisition for its experimental Parkinson's drug PF-06649751, which is slated to begin Phase III clinical trials in 2019.
What is Metered is Managed
Throughout the developed world, water and gas are delivered us by pipes and monitored by meters that track consumption over the course of a month. Before a bill is prepared, an engineer is supposed to manually check the meter to […]
Modern Day Map Maker
Geospatial data and analysis were traditionally thought to be difficult-to-access disciplines. Mapbox has unlocked geospatial data for developers, large organizations, and lay people, changing the way map data appears in our daily lives.