As digital transformation enables rapid change in traditional operations, organizations are finding new and more efficient ways to do business.

Blockchain is one of those things that everyone talks about but no one (myself included) really understands - like bitcoin or the stock market. I do understand, however, that blockchain is all about trust, and that's the reason it's going to revolutionize every industry. It's also the reason it can revolutionize wine markets.

The world's largest plane makers are testing a seemingly simple formula to smooth production, cut costs and fatten profits: Make more of the parts that go into their jets themselves.

Tokyo's St. Luke's International Hospital has completed a pilot of RFID technology to track the movement of equipment. The facility found that the technology identified stock levels at each of its wards in real time, and reduced the number of staff visits to the central clinical engineering room by approximately 55 percent.

Many shippers were caught off-guard last August when the world's seventh-largest container line suddenly went into receivership. An estimated $14bn in cargo was left in limbo after two-thirds of South Korea-based Hanjin's fleet - some 93 vessels - were seized, stranded or denied entry into ports.