How Supply Chain Companies Can Stay The Course In Uncertain Times
Part 2 in the series “Digital Manufacturing“ Benjamin Franklin once wrote that death and taxes are the only two certainties in life. But there’s another item we should add to that list: uncertainty....
View ArticleIndustry 4.0: When The Blockchain Meets The Supply Chain
Imagine a future run by cold emotionless machines, where the lives of human beings are just an afterthought. Perhaps you’d prefer to picture a world where blockchain-based equipment and new...
View ArticleLeapfrogging Opportunities For Women In Tech: The Grace Hopper Celebration
The annual Grace Hopper conference is the place to be for women in technology. It’s an amazing platform for female technologists to exchange insights and network. Grace Hopper, also known as “Amazing...
View ArticleThe Internet Of Things: Get Ready For Big Changes Ahead In 2019
Look through any technology publication or retail catalog, and I bet that you will find something described as “connected,” “smart,” or “intelligent” on every page. From smart digital supply chains to...
View ArticleDemocratizing Machine Learning And Predictive Analytics: Business-Enabled...
Part 2 in the 4-part series “Predictive Analytics and Machine Learning“ What is an intelligent enterprise? It’s the kind of company that understands customers and delivers better outcomes using data...
View ArticleThe Social Behavior Of Honeybees Applied To IoT Systems
The Internet of Things (IoT) has been used to great effect to enhance beekeeping. As beekeepers with day jobs in IoT and mobile solutions, we are always keen to combine our interests. Significant...
View ArticleDigitalist Magazine’s Top Posts Of The Week [January 28, 2019]
Digitalist Magazine’s Top Posts Of The Week [January 28, 2019] Shelly Dutton Digitalist Magazine, online edition, covers a variety of topics around the challenges businesses face in the digital...
View ArticleIs HR Embracing Social Networking Technology? [Infographic]
Is HR really embracing social networking within companies? While it seems HR departments and other talent management professionals are actively using external social media technologies to recruit and...
View ArticleThree Resolutions To Enhance Your Career In 2019
Winter is here, and that means sipping hot cocoa if you’re lucky, shoveling snow if you’re unlucky, and, of course, working toward your list of personal and professional goals. But according to a 2015...
View ArticleFive Ways To Become A Digital Insurance Company
Five Ways To Become A Digital Insurance Company Bart Doomen Insurance has always been a touchy subject. By its very nature, it is innately associated with negative outcomes: customers are compensated...
View ArticleCreating A Five-Star Consumer-Like Experience With People Analytics
As new generations enter the workforce, they expect HR processes to be designed just like the services they use in private life. Employees are no longer tolerant of a poor user experience at work. We...
View ArticleI Love You: Supply Chain Personalization For Valentine’s Day 2019
I was surprised recently to learn about the closing of the iconic candy manufacturer, New England Confectionery Co – otherwise known as Necco. Necco is the company that makes Sweethearts – the...
View ArticleHow Business Partnering Will Change The Way Finance Works
Part 2 in a 2-part series. Read Part 1. The finance function is transforming, and some would say it’s standing on a burning platform. Automation and artificial intelligence will eliminate jobs, and a...
View ArticleThe Direct-To-Consumer Experience Relies On A Great Product Experience
In case the stories of closing malls and empty storefronts haven’t caught your attention, shopping has changed. With an ever-growing focus on customer experience, old models upend the established...
View ArticleTaming Complex Supply Chains In The Global Economy (Part 1)
Part 1 in a 2-part series. The Internet enabled our global economy to take off at warp speed with increasingly interdependent supply chains. Our ability to be flexible – directing production to one...
View ArticlePeople Are Key To A Tech-Enabled Audit
Technological innovation is taking audit and assurance by storm. But for PwC, it’s not all about robots and technology. It’s also about upskilling people. “I think that technology has a role to play,...
View ArticleNew Study: Finance Is Set To Gain Digital Transformation Momentum
“Are we there yet?” That’s the question that is top of mind for architects of finance digital transformation. The answer is “not yet, but we’re getting much closer,” according to The Hackett Group’s...
View ArticleInformed Skeptic: How Finance Pros Can Be Good Data Consumers
All of us are producers and consumers of data. We ingest data, analyze and interpret it, apply our business savvy to make it more useful, and then deliver it to the next person. But are we doing this...
View ArticleMicroservices And The Circular Economy
The art of complex problem-solving lies fundamentally in dividing the big problem into subproblems. Solutions to these subproblems become the building blocks for other solutions. This modular approach...
View ArticleDigitalist Magazine’s Top Posts Of The Week [March 4, 2019]
Digitalist Magazine’s Top Posts Of The Week [March 4, 2019] Shelly Dutton Digitalist Magazine, online edition, covers a variety of topics around the challenges businesses face in the digital economy....
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