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A Strategist's Guide to the Digital Grocery

Strategy+Business

The shift to online shopping and in-store pickup for groceries -- led by Amazon and Walmart, heightened by Amazon's purchase of Whole Foods in 2017 -- represents an existential threat to many supermarkets and other food sellers. To be successful, chain stores will need to rethink the digital grocery.

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We Need to Approach AI Risks Like We Do Natural Disasters

Harvard Business

The good news is that natural disasters themselves, which Munich Re says caused $330 billion in economic losses globally in 2017, provide a template for how to mitigate the growing and catastrophic risk posed by AI. AI Insurance Products and Services. Contingency plans must go beyond a natural disaster playbook.

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Why Financial Statements Don’t Work for Digital Companies

Harvard Business

For an industrial company dealing with physical assets and goods, the balance sheet presents a reasonable picture of productive assets and the income statement provides a reasonable approximation of expenses required to create shareholder value. Many digital companies have no physical products and have no inventory to report.

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3 Health Care Trends That Don’t Hinge on the ACA

Harvard Business

In early May 2017 Republicans in the U.S. More than 3,000 apps are now available to help manage diabetes alone. But technology has become rooted firmly in U.S. One product helps reduce falls; another, Wander Guard, helps seniors with early stages of dementia live semi-independently. Laura Schneider for HBR.

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