Harvard Business
JUNE 16, 2016
Since 2011, General Electric has publicly stated it would spend more than $1 billion on developing sensors, wireless devices, and related software to install on its aircraft engines, power turbines, locomotive trains and other machinery. What’s more, that percentage generally goes down the lower the price of a product.
Johanna Rothman
JUNE 3, 2019
We implemented wireless, broadcast, the equivalent of webinars, all kinds of stuff. However, these managers often don't want to change themselves and change the culture for an agile approach. More controllers and more control points do not create an agile culture. Or, often, the product results the management wants.
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Harvard Business
DECEMBER 16, 2016
The cultural and operational challenge for incumbent financial services firms was enormous. In response, these companies made three significant shifts in their offerings: (1) they turned services into products; (2) they improved convenience while lowering cost; and (3) they leveraged big data to provide tailored customer solutions.
Harvard Business
SEPTEMBER 3, 2018
Rather than windowless work stations commonly found in call centers, the Airbnb Call Center is designed to be an open space with access to natural light and views of the surroundings while replacing desks and phones with long couches, standing desks and wireless technology. The benefits of these elements is is well recognized.
Management Consulted
JANUARY 22, 2015
Altman Vilandrie is a boutique management consulting firm that focuses pretty exclusively on telecom, media and tech (TMT), so it does a lot of work with internet service providers, wireless providers, mobile manufacturers, and also a lot of work in the online advertising and media side of things as well. Okay, great. So that was one.
Harvard Business
JUNE 19, 2017
Buying groceries sight unseen from Alexa might not sound immediately appealing — but Whole Foods’s brand engenders trust in the products it sells. Can the stores be transformed into cashierless, wireless purchasing markets ? If you are Whole Foods, you want to own Alexa. Can Alexa sell Whole Foods’s inventory?
Harvard Business
DECEMBER 20, 2016
My longtime co-author Brian Wansink and two of his colleagues used data from wireless scales to record the daily weight of 2,924 people over the course of one year. As is often the case, it is because we eat with our eyes, hearts, and cultural norms, and neglect to pay attention to how we actually feel when we are eating.
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