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Link: IBM’s big bet on blockchain

“For example: The recent E. coli outbreak led to mass disposal of lettuce in many places. Using a blockchain-based system to track the supply chain of food could help vendors pinpoint the farm it came from, locate the stores where it’s sold, and throw away only the lettuce that’s tainted.” Original source: IBM’s big bet on blockchain

Link: IBM’s big bet on blockchain

“For example: The recent E. coli outbreak led to mass disposal of lettuce in many places. Using a blockchain-based system to track the supply chain of food could help vendors pinpoint the farm it came from, locate the stores where it’s sold, and throw away only the lettuce that’s tainted.” Original source: IBM’s big bet on blockchain

Link: Allstate Technology Chief Develops The Uber Of Roadside Assistance

Success: “The Good Hands Rescue Network digital platform was launched in August 2016. Since then, we have seen a revenue lift in the tens of millions that is likely to grow to the hundreds of millions.” Business value/metrics: “After a year, we are averaging around 25,000 rescues a month… With the end-to-end digital process of the request, response and time to arrive, we are seeing an average actual time of arrival (ATA) at 27 minutes, which has reduced the wait time by almost half.

Link: Allstate Technology Chief Develops The Uber Of Roadside Assistance

Success: “The Good Hands Rescue Network digital platform was launched in August 2016. Since then, we have seen a revenue lift in the tens of millions that is likely to grow to the hundreds of millions.” Business value/metrics: “After a year, we are averaging around 25,000 rescues a month… With the end-to-end digital process of the request, response and time to arrive, we are seeing an average actual time of arrival (ATA) at 27 minutes, which has reduced the wait time by almost half.

Link: Allstate Technology Chief Develops The Uber Of Roadside Assistance

Success: “The Good Hands Rescue Network digital platform was launched in August 2016. Since then, we have seen a revenue lift in the tens of millions that is likely to grow to the hundreds of millions.” Business value/metrics: “After a year, we are averaging around 25,000 rescues a month… With the end-to-end digital process of the request, response and time to arrive, we are seeing an average actual time of arrival (ATA) at 27 minutes, which has reduced the wait time by almost half.

Link: How Insurance Giant Allstate Is Using Cloud Tech to Build New Businesses

“When you’re an 86-year-old company things have done a certain way, there are rules in place because of what someone did 10 years ago,” says Opal Perry, vice president and divisional chief information officer of claims for Allstate. “Now, instead of a 200-person team, you have small six- and eight-person teams working on things. It unleashes creativity.” In the past, many enterprise software projects required millions of dollars, and even sign-off by the CEO.

Link: How Insurance Giant Allstate Is Using Cloud Tech to Build New Businesses

“When you’re an 86-year-old company things have done a certain way, there are rules in place because of what someone did 10 years ago,” says Opal Perry, vice president and divisional chief information officer of claims for Allstate. “Now, instead of a 200-person team, you have small six- and eight-person teams working on things. It unleashes creativity.” In the past, many enterprise software projects required millions of dollars, and even sign-off by the CEO.