Juul Labs: Transforming Vaping through Open Innovation
In greater public scrutiny and regulation risk, Juul needs to use Open Innovation to create healthier and safer vapor products.
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Snowy Cheese Flavored Latte: Starbucks and Machine Learning in China
Starbucks has been an innovator in big data and machine learning through its highly successful mobile order and pay application. How can that translate to China, its next leg of growth?
OpenIdeo – Using Open Innovation to Tackle the Biggest Societal Issues
OpenIDEO aims to utilize design thinking and open innovation to solve the worlds toughest problems.
Promise and Peril for Machine Learning at Netflix
As the amount of content, competition, and subscribers in the online media space grows, Netflix is turning to machine learning to provide a more entertaining experience for its customers. While they are investing heavily in their proprietary recommendation engine and enjoying the benefits of increased customer retention, questions are emerging around how far into customer profiling a machine learning algorithm should ideally go.
Printing the Future: Ford Motor Company’s New Production Process
The rise of additive manufacturing (also known as 3D printing) promises to revolutionize how companies build products. Ford Motor Company is revolutionizing the very production processes it popularized by adopting 3D printing and a renewed vision of cost savings and product innovation.
How Spotify Beat Apple, Amazon, and Google Using Machine Learning
In an era in which Apple, Amazon, and Google are dominating the technology world, Spotify has succeeded in besting all of them in the music streaming industry. The question is then, how is Spotify able to fend off its major competitors, who are much more established in the technology industry?
If you can’t avoid the change – lead it. PepsiCo is betting on the wisdom of crowds to build a future of food industry.
In a search for new products and global trends in food and beverages industry PepsiCo is turning to open innovation
Equipping the Revolution: Hardware Wars in the Age of Machine Learning
In the machine learning gold rush, Amazon, Google, and Microsoft are competing for cloud computation dominance. Currently second in the market, Microsoft is poised to gain significant market share through its major investment in FPGAs (field-programmable gate arrays) for advanced, deep neural network applications.
Xiaomi: Fueled by Open Innovation
“We must curb the tendency for greed and win absolute trust from consumers. So we’re now deliberating, I think we may write this into the company charter, that we will not, in perpetuity, exceed a certain number of percentage points in profit on our hardware. Our target is just this one or two percentage points. We want all consumers who buy our products not to hesitate.” Lei Jun, CEO and Founder, Xiaomi [12]
Open Innovation at General Assembly
General Assembly utilizes an open innovation network of employers and students to develop coursework and constantly expand their innovative online curriculum