I had no idea that sea shanties were all the rage again. It all started with one guy, Nathan Evans. The gift of TikTok is that the video doesn’t just go viral – other users can add their own touches. Which is how Nathan Evans kicked off the sea shanty trend worldwide. If you spend 15 minutes…
My prediction is that business IT cannot handle the truth of re-globalized business, especially for the next couple of years. When COVID-19 broke supply chains, it became clear that the so-called globalized business still relied on consolidated, massive financial, industrial and commercial centers, connected by traditional, sequential supply chains. It was âglobalâ because the centers…
Despite COVID-driven tech investment, many manufacturers will fail at digital transformation through 2022. COVID has accelerated many manufacturerâs investments in technology such as robotics, automation, augmented reality/virtual reality ( AR/VR), artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML), and advanced analytics much more than predicted at the beginning of 2020. Despite this rush to technology…
Despite widespread hype, analysis of objective data suggests strongly that WFH has reduced productivity while increasing costs for most firms. Given current COVID resurgence and business uncertainty, it is inadvisable that any long-term WFH strategy should be decided upon through at least YE2021. Subjective Support After reviewing more than 200 reports, research notes, articles, and…
It used to be that IT market research could be segmented into tidy categories of technology types written for technology professionals. Analysts looked at technology through the lens of IT and the distinct categories it served. Working with Human Resources (HR) or other business-aligned professionals for advice and perspective was not needed, as the focus…
Are some of your business processes inefficient but too complicated to exhaustively reengineer right now? Don’t overlook the ways RPA can automate small and large-scale business processes in most industries and departments. Check out where to start, what actions to take, how to organize your teams, and what to avoid.
The structure of most companies is so stale that a Victorian industrialist appearing in our midst would only wonder why there were no top hats. Everything else would be familiar. An insistence on people being in the same space. Supervisors looking out over everything being done. Decisions emerging from all male board rooms and percolating…
Manufacturing CIO’s have a casual relationship with engineering or product design elements of the business. ERP systems have had some degree of integration with product lifecycle management (PLM) systems but they have mostly thought of these systems merely as a data source. A black box in their enterprise architecture. They have no intrinsic understanding of…
A centuries-old military aphorism claims that âall battles occur at the edges where two maps meet.â The implication is that the most critical aspect of combat takes place where details are lacking, and control is limited at best. IBM gets this, and it is the reason behind their critical edge computing announcements at last weekâs…
In my recent blog posts on why CIO’s need to get over the OT/IT divide, I explained why failure to address the IT/OT divide was going to doom manufacturers’ Digital Transformation efforts. I promised to provide insight as to how CIO’s can start breaking down the wall between IT and the OT centric parts of…
