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Our Physical World Has Changed: Augmented Reality in Tourism

Tom Spencer

Boeing has adopted AR and seen increased productivity and quality in their training process. Trainees with AR assistance are 35% more time efficient than trainees using traditional 2D documentation, and 90% more likely to perform an operation correctly the first time. Newport News Shipbuilding, which designs U.S

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The Fight of The Two R’s: Robots v Redundancy

Tom Spencer

While robots were predicted and have led to significant productivity gains, there are at the same time a number of drawbacks (Taylor, 2019). This begs the question, why do we favour productivity and efficiency if the new technology is simultaneously kicking workers out of jobs and diminishing the user experience? Image: Pexels.

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What Foundations Are Missing About Capacity Building

Harvard Business

These include administration, facilities, information technology, employee training, equipment, human resources and sometimes – just sometimes – fundraising. If you give a dollar to human resources, or new computers, or staff training, etc., Because no one likes to fund fundraising. It’s sales.

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The Secret History of Agile Innovation

Harvard Business

A more reasonable starting point might be the 1930s, when the physicist and statistician Walter Shewhart of Bell Labs began applying Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycles to the improvement of products and processes. So he began by learning everything he could about maximizing organizational productivity.

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7 Ways to Introduce AI into Your Organization

Harvard Business

Though these technologies can seem daunting, the good news is that getting started with cognitive technologies is getting easier all the time. Many vendors have jumped into the field, and their offerings provide options for any company wanting to make their processes or products smarter. ” Mostly Buy. Some Build, Some Buy.

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The One Type of Leader Who Can Turn Around a Failing School

Harvard Business

Studying such a large number of leaders who all faced similar challenges with similar options in organizations that are regulated, measured, and documented in the same way enabled us to directly compare what they did, why they did it, and the impact they had. Five Types of Leader. Soldiers like efficiency and order. billion and $7.6

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The Real Reason Superstar Firms Are Pulling Ahead

Harvard Business

They’re more productive, as the chart below illustrates. One answer to that first question shows up in study after study: superstar firms are succeeding in large part due to information technology. Across industries and across countries, a small number of “superstar” firms are pulling away from the competition.