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A.T. Kearney Interview & Culture

Management Consulted

Kearney’s digital business service aims to help these companies stay at the top of their game in the digital world – separating hype from potential digital disruptors & developing specific digital strategies designed around the company’s capabilities. Automotive. Transportation & Travel. Innovation.

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Robot Truck Convoy Tests in Nevada; Driverless Trucks Before Cars, and Before the End of the Decade

MishTalk

Moreover, driverless truck convoys will be safer and more fuel efficient than human-driven trucks. " We’re [developing semiautonomous technologies] only with highways in mind because you have the ability to stay in one lane for a long period of time. It now seems very likely, if not a given. In the wake of new U.S.

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Alvarez & Marsal Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

One example is when the New York School’s system hired them to boost the efficiency of their school bus network, which they did, saving the city $12M. Automotive and Suppliers. As such, some junior players in the firm feel like their career development is limited. Transaction Advisory. Global Forensics and Disputes.

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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). Mastery of hard science is a pre-requisite to develop software-based solutions on the hardware.

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The Right and Wrong Ways to Regulate Self-Driving Cars

Harvard Business

legal system is already having trouble keeping up with the pace of developments in transportation. Networked smart vehicles, for example, can safely travel much closer together — a technique known as platooning. The change will become invisible. But typical of disruptive transformation in other industries, the U.S.

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Return of the Buggy Whip; Streetcar Named Imprudent

MishTalk

At the peak of streetcar travel in the mid-1920s, some 800 streetcars covering 200 miles of track carried 97 million passenger trips a year. Its promoters seem oblivious to advances in automotive technology, showcased just down the street from them at the NAIAS, that could easily make streetcars and similar forms of mass transit obsolete.

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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.