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Meet "OSHbot" Lowes New Store Helper; Goodbye Retail Associates, Hello Robots

MishTalk

Advances in sensors, wireless networking, voice recognition and design prototyping are enabling us to build the smart retail robots that can autonomously navigate through stores, help communicate with customers to understand what they need and locate it quickly. OSHbot incorporates the latest of these advanced technologies.

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Thinking lifetime (don't break the chain)

Seth Godin Blog

Make the sale, cut your costs, move on. That means that unhappy news spreads far and fast (and that remarkable products and services need lower ad budgets). When a customer shows up at their website then, searching for a new feature like eprinting or getting their wireless to work, it''s both an opportunity and warning sign.

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How to Know Which Digital Trends Are Worth Chasing

Harvard Business

No strategy is static. In the online realm, Amazon’s experiment with its Echo wireless speaker technology – also known as Alexa – has the potential to turn the cumbersome online checkout process on its head. Kroger has aligned its entire business around a “Customer 1st” brand strategy.

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What Does Whole Foods Get from Amazon? Alexa, for Starters

Harvard Business

All the talk about Amazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods has been about how the deal will benefit Amazon’s “sell everything” strategy. What if we turn the question around: What does this deal do to Whole Foods’s “sell at a high price” strategy? If you are Whole Foods, you want to own Alexa.

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AT&T, Time Warner, and What Makes Vertical Mergers Succeed

Harvard Business

Combining the second-largest wireless carrier with the fourth-biggest entertainment company — one whose impressive assets include HBO and CNN — is likely to create an unassailable mobile-entertainment business. But there’s an old saying in corporate strategy: Two turkeys don’t make an eagle.

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3 Ways Companies Are Building a Business Around AI

Harvard Business

There are numerous other AI products available to business, like IBM’s Watson, or software from emerging vendors. In the face of such technical progress, paralysis is rarely a good strategy. CAMP3 is a 26-person company, headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia, that deploys and manages wireless sensor networks for agriculture.

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How disruptive is the 'Sharing Economy'?

freshminds

However, by 2025, these same sectors could generate over half of all overall sales in these sectors – a potential revenue opportunity worth $335bn. However, for many businesses, the sharing economy has the ability to be incorporated into current products by focusing on designing ways in which they can be sharable.

Hotels 53