WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation
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Stripe financial solutions teardown by @CBInsights

Stripe financial solutions teardown by @CBInsights | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it

In this report, we dive into Stripe’s unique strategy, growth trajectory, product set, and where the $35B payments giant sees the global online commerce market heading next.

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WHY IT MATTERS: payment processing is a critical retail & eCommerce component. This report dives deep into the STRIPE solution and market positioning, providing insights into the payment processing industry players as well.

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Weekend read: 350 slides Mary Meeker’s 2017 internet trends report - eCommerce is killing traditional retail #1

Weekend read: 350 slides Mary Meeker’s 2017 internet trends report - eCommerce is killing traditional retail #1 | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it

The most anticipated slide deck of the year is here. Key takeaways:

  • Global smartphone growth is slowing: Smartphone shipments grew 3 percent year over year last year, versus 10 percent the year before. This is in addition to continued slowing internet growth, which Meeker discussed last year.
  • Voice is beginning to replace typing in online queries. Twenty percent of mobile queries were made via voice in 2016, while accuracy is now about 95 percent.
  • In 10 years, Netflix went from 0 to more than 30 percent of home entertainment revenue in the U.S. This is happening while TV viewership continues to decline.
  • Entrepreneurs are often fans of gaming, Meeker said, quoting Elon Musk, Reid Hoffman and Mark Zuckerberg. Global interactive gaming is becoming mainstream, with 2.6 billion gamers in 2017 versus 100 million in 1995. Global gaming revenue is estimated to be around $100 billion in 2016, and China is now the top market for interactive gaming.
  • China remains a fascinating market, with huge growth in mobile services and payments and services like on-demand bike sharing. (More here: The highlights of Meeker's China slides.)
  • While internet growth is slowing globally, that’s not the case in India, the fastest growing large economy. The number of internet users in India grew more than 28 percent in 2016. That’s only 27 percent online penetration, which means there’s lots of room for internet usership to grow. Mobile internet usage is growing as the cost of bandwidth declines. (More here: The highlights of Meeker's India slides.)
  • In the U.S. in 2016, 60 percent of the most highly valued tech companies were founded by first- or second-generation Americans and are responsible for 1.5 million employees. Those companies include tech titans Apple, Alphabet, Amazon and Facebook.
  • Healthcare: Wearables are gaining adoption with about 25 percent of Americans owning one, up 12 percent from 2016. Leading tech brands are well-positioned in the digital health market, with 60 percent of consumers willing to share their health data with the likes of Google in 2016.
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WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT

This is an annual bag of goodies.

Highlight #1: retail stores are closing at record pace while Amazon opens stores. This is such a huge trend because it transforms stores from a mini-warehouse into something else: a destination for experience, service, and training. Think Apple store with the highest sales per square foot, genius bar, classes and a showroom. Amazon has pushed its Amazon GO, no lines, no registers concept and it is rolling it out slowly. This is just the beginning...

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Digital Transformation Review n° 9: The Digital Strategy Imperative : Steady Long-Term Vision, Nimble Execution | Capgemini Consulting Worldwide

Digital Transformation Review n° 9: The Digital Strategy Imperative : Steady Long-Term Vision, Nimble Execution | Capgemini Consulting Worldwide | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it
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Always interesting reading on digital transformation by Capgemini which has been at the forefront of defining digital transformation. Read this one, then flip through old ones...

Jean-Marie Grange's curator insight, October 24, 2016 2:02 PM
Very good examples of digital transformation in some industries. The platform strategy developed by Visa could be very successful... if they really open it to developpers. 
There is also a list of 15 startups showing good potential at the end of the document...
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C-suite must switch over and start being data driven instead of intuition driven to stay relevant via @McKinsey

C-suite must switch over and start being data driven instead of intuition driven to stay relevant via @McKinsey | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it
Technology is getting smarter, faster. Are you? Experts including the authors of The Second Machine Age, Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, examine the impact that “thinking” machines may have on top-management roles. A McKinsey Quarterly article.
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A bit long winded for those that follow the topic, this article nevertheless brings forward essential strategic thinking the C-suite executives should ask themselves today. Most important thinking comes at the end, so stick through it.


Think of banking, which essentially a data-driven business, and ask yourself if their leaders have read papers like this one... Or retailers, which often sit on millions of transaction data from their POS and websites without using it to drive their business decisions. 

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3 strategies for developing the data-driven store brings amazing examples of omni-channel via @gigaom @sanguit

3 strategies for developing the data-driven store brings amazing examples of omni-channel via @gigaom @sanguit | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it
Tracking customers through today’s data-driven shopping journey provides retailers a fresh take on doing business and the chance to deliver the best customer experience and build loyalty.
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Most overused these days, omni-channel is often a concept that is difficult to understand. This paper sheds some lights onto the concept as well as provides very useful concrete examples that describe how companies put omni-channel through its paces. 


Moreover, the paper delivers the concept with a focus on data, which indeed appears to be the glue that ties omni-channel together very well. Even though the focus is on retail, I believe this may also apply to banks and other physical locations where customers interact with businesses.

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