Posts Tagged ‘digital transformation’

In a recent IBM blog post, Brittany Haas discusses the key to driving digital transformation – Millennials. And when you think about it, it makes complete sense.  Millennials are the generation that have grown up in a completely digital world who don’t know what a suitcase phone is, a beeper or library card catalogs!  These […]

  I’ve been taking omeprazole for at least 10 years. Every day. Sometimes more than one day…but only by accident. I didn’t like the fact that I couldn’t remember whether I took a pill in the morning, which would sometimes lead me to take an additional pill that may have not been necessary. That’s why […]

At OSCON the keynotes are interesting and influential speakers but not arranged around a specific yearly theme. In this post and a future one, I want to pull together this theme of using the concepts and principles of Open Source in new ways. Two speakers, from the US and UK governments, provided fascinating insights and the […]

  You can’t argue with it because it’s a good idea. Yellow Cards have gone digital. Not the ones used in soccer/football, but the ones used in the UK for reporting adverse events. When governments undergo digital transformation, you know it’s not a fad. After all, they’re not typically early adopters…of anything. Last week, the […]

Today I received an email from Uber asking me to take an active part in Ubers now public fight with Mayor De Blasio of New York City. Anyone who knows Uber won’t be surprised at this and at the changes to the app they made for all NYC users.  There’s another trend you can see […]

Today I received an email from Uber asking me to take an active part in Ubers now public fight with Mayor De Blasio of New York City. Anyone who knows Uber won’t be surprised at this and at the changes to the app they made for all NYC users.  There’s another trend you can see […]

  Theranos. You might have heard of them because the founder and CEO is the world’s youngest self-made female billionaire. Or you might have heard of them because of what they’ve created. The company has developed a revolutionary blood test that doesn’t require big needles, a lot of blood, or even a doctor’s order. Just […]

Digital transformation isn’t just driving the way we run our businesses, but also influencing how we handle milestones in our lives. When J.J. Watt signed an NFL contract worth $100 million, he wasn’t sure what to do next. So he googled the phrase “What do rich people buy?” Unimpressed with the search results, his first […]

  When you think of a pharmaceutical companies, you think drugs. You think of them as a business – drugs being developed, sold, and consumed. Not often do you think of them as do-gooders. 

The phrase “Consumerization of Healthcare” has been around for several years, but only recently has it begun to fulfill its promise by meeting the needs of a wider audience. While consumers have demanded and received more detailed information about health plans online for over a decade, the latest shifts have allowed patients greater access to […]

  Scenario 1: A runner is out for an early workout taking the isolated forest trail when all of a sudden is feeling out of breath, tightening chest, and falls to the ground. The runner just had a heart attack with no one around. Beforehand, the runner decided to become proactive in the future of […]

Digital transformation is already taking place outside of your environment. Is your company a part of it? Marketing has evolved to become immersed with technology to where the traditional CMO role is becoming immersed with various with technologies. CMOs are digital leaders that have the power to push company-wide transformation into their technologies, and API […]