Atsuki Saito

How to Win IoT Field: Japanese companies are struggling

In 2016, the news was spread all over Japan that Sharp was taken over by Taiwan EMS company, Hon Hai. Sharp had been leading Japanese economy, but those days their performance was below expectation because Chinese or Korean companies were expanding market shares in global market. [1] Toshiba, also famous for electronics, has considerable financial… Read more How to Win IoT Field: Japanese companies are struggling

Online Dating Will Teach You What You Need in Digital Era

Tinder? eHarmony? Match.com? Nowadays there are many matching sites and apps. Some of my friends are addicted to Tinder, while some of them complain that they don’t get good matches even though the matching quality is said to be increasing. To be honest, I know how they feel. Personally, I started to use dating apps… Read more Online Dating Will Teach You What You Need in Digital Era

Online Voting: The Last Frontier of Digitalization?

  What has not been digitalized yet? Online shopping is becoming more popular and electronic books are common these days. In the business field, there are many buzz words such as “edtech”, ”fintech”, ”insurtech”, etc. which means that introducing new technology is the current trend. But some claim that digitalizing everything has a lot of… Read more Online Voting: The Last Frontier of Digitalization?

HOW WILL WE BUY CLOTHES IN THE FUTURE?

https://www.uniqlo.com/us/en/stores-details/?StoreID=10200083&source=stores Jetlore, an AI-based prediction company, was founded by three people including Montse Medina, who was our guest speaker. Their prediction systems have been integrated with big retailors in the world such as eBay, Paypal and UNIQLO. [1] Retailors are always facing difficulties in forecasting the demand of their customers since if they miscalculate it,… Read more HOW WILL WE BUY CLOTHES IN THE FUTURE?

HOW DOES QUANTUM COMPUTER CHANGE BUSINESS?

 [4] BBC “D-Wave: Is $15m machine a glimpse of future computing?” (20/5/2014)   “We’re at the dawn of the quantum-computing age, and it’s really up to us to execute.”, said Vern Brownell, the CEO of D-Wave systems. [1] Since the theory of quantum computer was suggested, many companies such as IBM, Microsoft and D-Wave have… Read more HOW DOES QUANTUM COMPUTER CHANGE BUSINESS?