Randal Kenworthy - October 2, 2020 - 238 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 […]

Bret Greenstein - September 24, 2020 - 368 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, […]

Soumya Ranjan Dash - August 5, 2020 - 534 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 […]

Bret Greenstein - June 24, 2020 - 625 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 - 626 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 - 446 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 […]

Great challenges require great tools. And in a world where a virus such as SARS-CoV-2 has had a huge global impact in just a matter of months, its complexity and speed require new methods for finding solutions. Advanced forms of artificial intelligence (AI) are already playing a critical role in our pandemic-fighting efforts, and they’re […]

Badhrinath Krishnamoorthy - May 8, 2020 - 214 views

The number of streaming subscribers is surging amid the global shutdown. Yet customer churn is one of the direct-to-consumer industry’s harshest realities. It’s also new and uncertain territory for media and entertainment companies: As content producers, their job has been to attract audiences; as direct-to-consumer providers, it’s to keep them coming back. While there’s no […]

The science fiction of yesterday seems like it’s becoming science fact today. Fans of Netflix’s Stranger Things will recall the Shadow Monster, who intended to kill everything and everyone on Earth by spreading a virus via humans. Sadly, as the ever-increasing incidents of pandemics over the last decade have shown, narratives such as the Shadow […]

Brian Williams - April 3, 2020 - 1108 views

COVID-19 is upending life as we know it. The potential effect of this viral disease on mortality and public health, as well as the lasting socioeconomic impact of the crisis, is unfathomable. To mitigate the wide-scale impact of this growing pandemic, our hopes are trained on a vaccine, prophylactic or curative, and the life sciences […]