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What is a “Socio-Technical System?”

The Lean Thinker

The work also met every definition of “difficult, dirty and dangerous.” this is particularly true in ERP / MRP environments.) In practice, though, these systems tend to isolate people from one another, or into small single task groups in much the same way as happened in the coal mine. The Mechanistic View.

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Making Sense of Supply Chain 4.0

Material Handling and Logistics

McKinse y, Cap Gemini and the Boston Consulting Group all suggest digital transformation is about applying digital technologies [such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), the Internet of Things (IoT) and Blockchain] to operational processes and creating improvements.