Building a portfolio of digital industrial solutions leveraging powerful business ecosystems.For companies undergoing digital industrial transformation, are there shortcuts to developing end-to-end solutions? This article, ninth in a series, looks at leveraging business ecosystems and venturing beyond traditional company boundaries.DIGITAL industrial transformation offers an opportunity—and an...

LVMH announced today that it is converting three of its perfume manufacturing facilities where it normally makes fragrances for its Christian Dior, Givenchy and Guerlain brands to make hand sanitizer instead. The first deliveries will be tomorrow and by the end of the first week, LVMH expects to have made 12 tons of the hydroalcoholic gel. The product will be given at no charge to French author...

A study of US consumers reveals how they’re using voice assistants, and what types of products they’re buying.OnBuy.com analyzed findings from ‘VoiceBot.AI’, who surveyed 1,203 U.S. consumers to better understand the products and services they buy the most using a voice-assistant.In addition, the study identifies consumers’ biggest likes and concerns about voice shopping.According to the s...

Heartbeat Health is a startup working to improve the way that cardiovascular care is delivered, and it announced today that it has raised $8.2 million in Series A funding.While you’ve probably spent a lot of today thinking about the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s worth remembering that other health issues aren’t going away — and that heart disease remains the leading cause of death in the United S...

A new protein made from air, water and renewable electricity could revolutionize our food system within the next decade. Solar Foods has developed a sustainable food that’s totally disconnected from agriculture. Now they need to scale it up.Developed by the Finnish company Solar Foods in a lab just outside Helsinki, the protein ― called Solein ― is made using living microbes that are then gr...

For me personally, I associate the topic with having far more freedom. Not having to focus on the road means that there you have free time for more productive things. Another positive aspect is also that the burden is lifted for motorists; truck drivers, for example, can do their job without being as stressed and exhausted.Infographic : https://content-design.statista.com/wp-content/uploads//20...

When markets get wacky, even the best companies can’t avoid the maelstrom. Investors were already tiptoeing on broken glass, knowing that the longest U.S. stock market bull run in history was getting long in the tooth.Then, when the market foresaw the potential damage that could be caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, it quickly created a vortex that would suck almost everything into it.Bizarro Ma...

It is almost law that no visit to IKEA is ever truly complete without sampling a portion of its iconic Swedish meatballs; a deserved reward after navigating the maze. Realising the love people have for the foodstuff, Pizza Hut has collaborated with the flatpack furniture masters for a scrumptious campaign.It seems like a wonder that it has taken this long for someone to snatch the potential of...

Most digital initiatives sputter before they take full effect. A new survey finds that organizations stand a good chance of recovering lost momentum because slowdowns typically happen for reasons within their control.At organizations pursuing digital transformations, more than seven in ten survey respondents say the progress of these efforts has slowed or stalled at some point. In the latest Mc...