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The smart factory Part 1: Digitization, digitalization and digital

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The digital transformation of the operations and processes of factories and supply chains is based upon digitization of carefully selected machines and digitalization of the related business processes. To understand this question, we will need to understand what are the differences between digitization and digitalization?

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Polycrisis, Antifragility, and What’s Missing from Digital Transformation

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Are you trying to figure out how NOT to join the 70% who fail at digital transformation? As much as we conflate digital transformation with technology, without these missing ingredients your initiative will fail. As much as we conflate digital transformation with technology, without these missing ingredients your initiative will fail.

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Industry 4.0: Building the right skills to meet the factory of the future

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A meeting between two pioneers during a cocktail party in 1956 turned out to be a defining moment in the world of manufacturing. Technological advances has often moved faster than digital capabilities. Success will be dependent on three factors: Skills development as a central component of your digital roadmap.

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Digital Transformation Journey in Supply Chain Planning

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Even mom-and-pop stores and diners had to step up their digitalization game with the pandemic erupting. Digital commerce efficiently requires the digitalization of many customer-facing operations and sourcing and procurement. Digital Transformation Journey. Going Digital: Creation of the Digital Foundation.

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Digital Transformations Are Not Just for the Big Guys

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When you think about digital transformation, you probably think of multinational giants like McDonald’s or Sephora. Case in point: Brook Furniture Rental has invested in new technologies to undertake a true digital evolution, significantly improving customer service and reducing operational costs along the way. The Results.

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Sustainable Home Delivery: A Conversation with Descartes

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Home delivery and sustainability are two topics that I have written about quite a bit in the last few years, and Descartes just released its home delivery sustainability consumer sentiment study, so the timing seemed perfect. By doing the study for multiple years, you can start to see trends emerging.

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Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM) and the inflection point for digital manufacturing

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For example, before the pandemic, companies could get by with analog machines, paper-based systems, and disconnected point solutions. Similarly, a 2021 study from McKinsey showed that just 19% of companies that had adopted Industry 4.0 To do this, information must not only be digital, but it must also be shareable between systems.