John Reynolds - October 20, 2020 - 339 views

Reducing total cost of ownership (TCO) is a key objective for healthcare organizations. That doesn’t just mean driving down operational costs – it also means changing the economics of care by moving away from volume-based fee-for-service models to outcome-driven value-based care. As discussed in part one of this blog series, health insurers can use business […]

Randal Kenworthy - October 2, 2020 - 762 views

As the world adapts to a new normal and braces for the next normal, businesses are increasingly dependent on all things digital. Pre-pandemic, organizations crafted Internet of Things (IoT) strategies in hopes of creating intelligent, data-driven products, operations and services — few of which reached widespread use. In the face of today’s challenges, businesses are […]

We’ve been talking for more than two decades about the “experience economy,” in which the companies that provide the best customer experience (not just the best products and services)  generate the most value for their customers and shareholders. Experiences become the currency that great companies give to their customers and employees.  Companies have spent billions of dollars trying to improve experiences […]

Bret Greenstein - September 24, 2020 - 1095 views

For most of us, 2020 has ushered in unwelcome chaos and uncertainty. Who would have guessed in early March that within days, personal decisions that were once mundane – like where, when and how to get groceries – would spur paralyzing anxiety. What was missing – and still is – is information and, in particular, […]

Brian Williams - August 26, 2020 - 363 views

Artificial intelligence, particularly machine learning, encompasses a multifaceted set of technologies with many applications in the life sciences sector, such as cure research, diagnosis, and treatment, mitigation and prevention. Despite the vast potential of AI, the AI regulatory field is in full bloom in some places and merely bare branches elsewhere – depending on public […]

Venkatesh Srinivasan - August 5, 2020 - 617 views

As insurers navigate the COVID-19 landscape, they’re taking aim at a kinder, gentler customer experience. The result is a new focus on empathy – and online channels are shaping up as the key platform for delivering it. It may sound counter-intuitive to convey empathy through digital channels, especially in insurance: an industry known for complex […]

Badhrinath Krishnamoorthy - July 17, 2020 - 433 views

Creating intelligent products has long been a staple of consumer technology providers. Think no further than the Apple Watch and iPhone. But the concept has been slower to take root in the B2B technology sector among makers of semiconductor parts, enterprise software, digital marketplaces and platforms, to name a few. Now, two forces are uniting […]

Bret Greenstein - June 24, 2020 - 970 views

What if we had better models for prescribing solutions to catastrophic events when they occur, or even before they struck? As a society, we could address a severe food shortage or calculate the supplies needed to treat victims of an oncoming natural disaster. It would certainly improve the ability to sustain life as we know […]

Shantanu Chandra - June 3, 2020 - 734 views

Artificial intelligence (AI) isn’t new to the banking and financial services industry. Trades are executed by a robo-advisor; digital assistants answer queries on fixed-deposit interest rates via natural language processing; and credit scores for loan processing are tabulated within minutes by machine-learning algorithms. But as banks apply AI to make more informed and split-second business decisions, […]

Mark Taylor - May 27, 2020 - 985 views

For more than two decades, we’ve talked about how the experiences brands enable are the principal way they’ll compete in the market. Indeed, it was in 1998 when the Harvard Business Review published “Welcome to the Experience Economy” by Joe Pine and James Gilmore. The sad truth remains, though, that companies have not really moved […]