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As Reuters reports, Amazon.com is in a race against Google to store data on human DNA. Inherently, academic institutions and healthcare companies find themselves having to pick sides between their cloud computing offerings – Google Genomics and Amazon Web Services. A number of clients view Google and Amazon as doing a better job at storing…
Until now, hyper-intelligent quantum computers were destined to stay cocooned in the laboratories in which they are patented. But after decades of languishing in the lab, quantum computers are now attracting commercial interest. What will allow these super computers to be commercialized by companies such as Google, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Microsoft? A certain principle that will…
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Founder of multiple of startups, and nurturer to many more, Bill Gross was curious why some startups succeeded and others failed. So he gathered data and researched hundreds of organizations, including his own, and ranked each using five key factors. Gross found one key factor that stood out from all the other reasons why startups succeed. His finding surprised us all,…
Communication. We talk about how important it is. How critical it is to have in any endeavor in order to move the ball down the field and, ultimately, for success. Yet in almost every instance where there is failure, we can almost always trace back to one of the root-causes for the failure being a…
Lean Thinking Fundamentals: The Building Block for a Lean Management System It is vitally important for lean people to know nothing when it comes to working towards improvement. This sounds like a crazy idea, and it is a 100% turnaround from traditional management thinking. This article discusses the fundamentals of Lean Thinking, a building block…
CONTENT PARTNER CONTRIBUTION As seen in the Jun-2015 edition of the Lean Management Journal Continuous Improvement (CI) is a well-established concept within organisations. Many have developed elaborate CI strategies and transformation programmes. However, in our opinion, there is a fundamental problem that advocates of CI need to address. How successful have we been as a…
