Inspiration
- A selection of companies that are utilising digital in order to lead, disrupt or drive change within their industry.
Session 1
Session 2
Zappos — Customer service ecommerce company
Uber — Disrupting the Taxi Industry — Transportation / Logistics platform
Giffgaff — Member based mobile company
Zipcar — A car sharing / transportation platform.
Kickstarter — Crowdfunding platform & Idea tester
Airbnb — Accommodation Marketplace & part of the Sharing Economy
AMEX Open Business Forum — Content Marketing on steroids
Others:
Mechanical Turk — A crowdsourced internet / distributed marketplace
Volvo Trucks — Epic Splits
Session 3 — Business Transformation with Paul McCabe
Airport Genie — This service has been merged into the Dublin Airport services it seems.
Outfittery — A online mens clothing service, retail prices, free shipping and only pay for the items you want to keep. NB. this isn’t a two week rental service like indicated by Paul.
Splosh — A laundry, dishwashing and hand soap concentrate that you just need to add water to. Identified as one of the non-direct competitors to traditional detergents + soaps.
Other brands discussed, which are well known include:
- Amazon
- Spotify
- Skyskanner
- Hyudai
- Nike & Nike+
