Digital Business

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT), as well as conventional IoT deployments, often remain in “pilot purgatory” because they fail to deliver significant business outcomes. Part 1 of this series revealed that to succeed, manufacturers should utilize IoT to reshape key operating  processes and experiences into end-to-end journeys that unlock trapped business value. As history […]

Bret Greenstein - April 25, 2019 - 828 views

In the movie Avengers: Infinity War, Dr. Strange uses the Time Stone to explore 14 million possible futures to find the one with the best outcome, the one where the Avengers could defeat the evil Thanos. Dr. Strange has to experience each possible future and consider the decisions that were made to see how each future […]

John Bertrand - April 23, 2019 - 260 views

Looking across the complexity of trade finance, the notion of a problem child comes to mind from another era. Today, however, the industry’s methodologies are starting to become agile.  With the abundance of technology, we can link activities, end to end, across the parties involved in every trade. The arrival of standard application programming interfaces (API), used […]

Mark Miller - April 19, 2019 - 165 views

The healthcare industry has been a champion of whole-person care for decades, yet we seem no closer to a solution for proactive health management than we were in the early days of nurse advice lines and disease management programs. In the past, public and private healthcare organizations looked toward Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs to help […]

In healthcare, the process of receiving payment is unlike that of any other business. For most transactions in other industries, the consumer makes a full payment when a service is performed or product is received. Such is not the case in healthcare: Imagine going to Best Buy and saying, “I’ll take the TV home now, […]

Not since the dot-com boom of the early 2000s has there been a topic as ubiquitous in business circles as digital transformation. That’s likely because so few companies have truly found their groove in reimagining and rearchitecting their capabilities for the Fourth Industrial Revolution. It remains a battle even for those organizations that have been […]

Bruce Rogow - April 4, 2019 - 138 views

As I meet with executives from enterprises seeking digital enhancement, many suggest that in order to achieve material value from new digital services, offerings and technologies, they need to balance two factors: the pace of the initiative and “the realization horizon.” My previous blog discussed pacing. From there, it becomes critical to utilize realization horizons. […]

Risto Miikkulainen - March 28, 2019 - 492 views

Deep neural networks (DNN) have produced groundbreaking results in many complex applications of AI, such as natural language processing, facial recognition, sentiment analytics and object recognition. For instance, the accuracy of Google’s machine translation system improved 60% using a DNN approach. Finding the right network architecture – that is, the components of the network and […]

Prashanth Bhushan - March 26, 2019 - 236 views

Internet connectivity is now ubiquitous, creating what many call a “network of everything.” Digital capabilities are designed into virtually every new product, from land mobile radios used by law enforcement to connected medical wearables to jet engines that collect their own data, diagnose issues, perform updates and predict maintenance to maximize equipment availability and optimize […]

Antonella Bonanni - March 21, 2019 - 170 views

In recent years, healthcare organizations have worked to use new technologies to get closer to consumers and secure them as customers. They got on social media and built patient portals and smartphone apps, but guess what:  Most of these efforts didn’t really work all that well. The intentions were good, but the focus was often […]