Competing with Data and AI Challenge

April 21, 2020

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Many companies today use data analytics or AI to create and capture value. For this assignment, please choose a company that uses data analytics or AI in a creative way to drive value creation, value capture, or its operating model.

You may focus on use of data analytics or AI to create new products or services, or you may focus on the use of data analytics or AI within the process of some part of its current business. Describe the current challenges and opportunities the company faces in this deployment. Then recommend changes the company needs to make to address these challenges or take advantages of these opportunities. While you should devote most of the space to value creation, please consider the value capture strategy as well.

Assignment

Create an approximately 750-word post to make your contribution on digit.hbs.org by 6 p.m. on April 21. (To make it interesting, please stay away from well-known big data/AI companies such as Amazon, Google, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft.)

Please also respond to and comment on three other posts per assignment. Feel free to use graphics, data, videos, and links to other sites to corroborate your points.

Selected posts will be discussed in class.

Submitted (78)

Vodafone – Putting Data to Work
trishim11
Last modified on April 21, 2020 at 5:24 pm
How the telecom giant is using AI in its operations to deliver customer value
NotCo: Creating Plant-Based Food Alternatives with AI
London L.
Last modified on April 21, 2020 at 6:38 pm
NotCo is a business based in Chile that creates plant-based alternatives for many different types of food including milk and meat products. Globally, it’s competing with companies such as Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat. NotCo uses an AI-centric approach to [...]
John Deere: Killing weeds precisely with See & Spray technology
vertigo
Last modified on April 20, 2020 at 4:21 pm
John Deere is trying to change the farming industry by adopting computer vision and machine learning technology.
How to be UBER successful at enterprise scale AI
C. Xu
Posted on April 21, 2020 at 4:15 pm
How Uber is changing the paradigm in enterprise artificial intelligence
AI Patents: Search Less – Discover More
RLT
Posted on April 21, 2020 at 3:25 pm
AIP has created a semantic search engine powered by AI that compares documents on the basis of ideas, not words. This technology is allowing patent examiners and inventors to work more efficiently.
Natura: Will AI Enable the Company to Go Global?
Reinaldo Fioravanti
Last modified on April 21, 2020 at 1:30 am
Natura, a multinational Brazilian company known by taking the lead in sustainability and innovation is using AI to expand its direct sales strategy globally.
Digit: Saving you from Not Saving
Carla SanchezArmas
Last modified on April 21, 2020 at 7:00 pm
  Is micro saving a thing? Digit and its venture capital investors seem to think it is. Micro saving is better than no saving, particularly when you seem to live paycheck-to-paycheck. Having a digital assistant that can go through your [...]
Textio.com Reducing Gender Bias in Hiring with AI?
I'm Not A Robot
Posted on April 21, 2020 at 5:47 pm
Textio uses AI to recommend word-choices and write job postings for companies to improve the demographic diversity of its job applicants and speed and efficacy of hiring. Is it the future of hiring? How will it weather the storm of [...]
Clearview – Any Chance of Redemption?
dknab1892
Posted on April 21, 2020 at 11:34 am
Clearview grabbed the world’s attention early this year when details of their facial recognition software, Clearview AI were leaked to the public.  In an era defined by surveillance capitalism, data privacy and ethics issues are a consistent topic of conversation [...]
PlaySight – Using Data Analytics to Improve Tennis Performance
Russell
Last modified on April 21, 2020 at 5:59 pm
PlaySight allows tennis players to improve their games by installing smart cameras that provide advanced analytics. It impressively appeals to both amateur players and professionals like Novak Djokovic. So how does it do it?
Nuance: an AI solution physicians love
Joe Tung
Posted on April 21, 2020 at 1:57 am
Nuance has developed AI solutions that physicians love, captured a significant portion of the U.S. health care market, and is primed to be a major player going forward in the clinical recommendation and diagnostics space.
Ment.IO Data analytics for team-based decision making
Brian Westlake
Posted on April 20, 2020 at 7:44 pm
Collaborate remotely without feeling remote
Salesforce: democratizing AI for small businesses
Miguel Dysenhaus
Last modified on April 21, 2020 at 12:04 pm
Salesforce is incorporating AI technology into their CRM to help customer make better and more informed business decisions.
Unilever partners with HelloAva to change the face of the beauty industry
GDC
Last modified on April 21, 2020 at 2:43 am
HelloAva is the AI-powered technology that Unilever has tapped to drive digital purchase of its beauty products.
SoundHound – Voice Intelligence Anywhere
Jennifer Yang
Posted on April 21, 2020 at 5:44 pm
SoundHound is using AI with the aim of integrating voice and conversational intelligence into any product.
From Science Fiction to Reality: Tesla’s search for a driverless car
Sky Deck
Posted on April 22, 2020 at 2:05 am
What do you mean your car is driving itself?” said my mom as I showed her a video of how a nearby Tesla came to pick us up completely driverless, through just the press of a button. But what felt [...]
WHILL: revolutionizing personal mobility with autonomous-driving wheelchairs
K Fukagawa
Posted on April 20, 2020 at 10:36 pm
The current mobility market is biased in favor of able-bodied users. WHILL is here to address the gap!
LiveRamp (formerly Acxiom) – selling you – without owning your data
Bastian P
Posted on April 21, 2020 at 12:09 pm
A critical look at the risks and opportunities of the data brokerage business model at the example of market leading LiveRamp
BMW – AI Beyond Self-Driving Cars
Leo
Posted on April 21, 2020 at 2:20 pm
BWM applies machine learning in the manufacturing process today to get ahead
INRIX: Transforming Mobility Worldwide By Connecting People, Vehicles, Cities, and Businesses
Dora Du
Last modified on April 21, 2020 at 6:41 pm
INRIX is one of the leading providers of data and insight into how people move around the world. They provide new insights into a variety of other industries that can make better business decisions by understanding how people move throughout [...]
Trial Company: Future of Ret-AI-l store
H&M
Posted on April 21, 2020 at 5:50 pm
Smart ret-AI-l store can be the future of the retail stores.
Capital Float – Financing India’s Future
ssingayapally
Posted on April 21, 2020 at 1:21 pm
Capital Float leverages an innovative data-driven approach to identifying creditworthy borrowers who are unable to access banks. While loan disbursements have crossed $1bln during the 5 years of its existence, the company is aiming for continuous and sustainable growth.
Banking experience powered by humanized chatbot
Ashima_Singh
Posted on April 21, 2020 at 2:42 pm
The Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc is a banking and insurance company, based in Scotland. The group offers personal and private banking, insurance, and corporate finance. This blogpost is focused on RBS’s AI chatbot, Cora, focused on providing an [...]
Uplight – Customer-Centric Data Analytics for the Grid
Jared V.
Last modified on April 21, 2020 at 5:34 pm
Uplight was formed in 2019 as a merger of two Colorado-based cleantech startups, Simple Energy and Tendril, to provide a comprehensive suite of products for electric and gas utilities to meet their strategic goals and drive a better customer experience. [...]
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