BTOES Insights presents this case study on the Johnson Controls Manufacturing System – just one of the very best Award-Winning Examples of Successful Operational Excellence from the Business Transformation & Operational Excellence Awards, 2017. This well-rounded piece details the four foundations of the system – customer focus, stable production environment, zero tolerance for waste, and organize around pull –…
Operational and Consulting guru Indy Dhami means that the growth and impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be likened to the opening of Pandora’s pithos (which translates to a jar and not a box as it is incorrectly known). In the present day, is the eager development of AI (with the goal of giving it an innate…
On the premise that digitization is causing a radical reordering of traditional industry boundaries, McKinsey & Co. poses the question: What will it take to play offense and defense in tomorrow’s ecosystems? In an attempt to answer the question, this article delves into Japan’s single largest online retail marketplace: Rakuten Ichiba… Read more here
Bloomberg reports that for years now, the explosive growth of e-commerce has outpaced the underlying technology; companies wanting to set up shop have had to go to a bank, a payment processor, and “gateways” that handle connections between the two. This takes weeks, lots of people, and fee after fee. Then in 2010, Patrick and John…
McKinsey and Company means that CEOs and senior executives can employ proven techniques to create top-team performance – and moreover, that this topic’s importance is not about to diminish as digital technology reshapes the notion of the workplace and how work gets done. On the contrary, the leadership role becomes increasingly demanding as more work is conducted…
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What if you knew what your coworkers really thought about you and what they were really like? Ray Dalio makes the business case for using radical transparency and algorithmic decision-making to create an idea meritocracy where people can speak up and say what they really think — even calling out the boss is fair game….
