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An Overview of Software Consulting

Tom Spencer

Software is key to the efficiency of organizations in almost every industry. As a result, the efficiency of city maintenance in Paris has increased by 20%, allowing the Paris civil service to perform 140,000 repairs per year. It is agile, stimulating, and there is plenty room for growth. Background and education are important.

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Impact of Data Analytics in Consulting

Tom Spencer

Creating transparency: Value is created when data is made accessible to relevant stakeholders in a timely manner, for example, in manufacturing if data from research and development, engineering and manufacturing is integrated to enable concurrent engineering. This can significantly cut time in the market and improve quality.

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How to Make Sure Agile Teams Can Work Together

Harvard Business

Increasing volatility, uncertainty, growing complexity, and ambiguous information (VUCA) has created a business environment in which agile collaboration is more critical than ever. Intuitively, we know that the collaborative intensity of work has skyrocketed, and that collaborations are central to agility. This story is not unique.

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Making Your Digital Transformation Journey Successful: An Overview of Its Essential Components

Epicflow

ompanies that invest enough in digital talent have three times higher chances for efficient transformation. Technologies: Optimization of Operations . Digitizing operations. Read more: Digitalization of Aerospace Engineering: Main Difficulties and Ways to Overcome Them. Developing talent and skills . ?ompanies

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Bureaucracy Can Drain Your Company’s Energy. Agile Can Restore It.

Harvard Business

Its hierarchical authority, specialized division of labor, and standard operating procedures enabled companies to grow far larger than they had ever been. The German sociologist Max Weber famously praised bureaucracy’s rationality and efficiencies. Perhaps my journey to agile will help you figure out how to begin your own.

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How Governments Can Get Technology Transformations Right

BCG

When it comes to technology in the public sector, the buzz is all about the power of digital technologies to transform the ways governments operate and deliver services to citizens. That value comes in the form of improved efficiency and effectiveness of the department and more convenient and tailored services for citizens and businesses.

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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). An aircraft engine is unlikely to become a purely digital product any time soon!