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Organizational structure for remote teams

Asamby Consulting

Nevertheless, remote work allows companies to reduce their costs such as rent, which leads to a positive impact towards the environment by reducing greenhouse gas emissions when employees no longer need to travel to work. Industries such as automotive and electronics commonly use divisional structure.

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Tomorrow’s Factories Will Need Better Processes, Not Just Better Robots

Harvard Business

When people think of the automotive Factory of the Future, the first word that comes to mind is automation. But the reality is that any major leap forward on cost and efficiency will no longer be possible through automation alone, since most of the tasks that can be automated in an automotive factory have already been tackled.

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Can Anyone Stop Amazon from Winning the Industrial Internet?

Harvard Business

Type 3: Then there are products where input-output efficiency and reliability of the physical components are still critical but digital is becoming an integral part of the product itself (in effect, computers are being put inside products). Ford or Tesla? ” But it won’t be easy for them, either.