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How to Address the Supply-Chain Staffing Crisis

Harvard Business

For small to medium enterprises, this means margins may be squeezed to the point to where they can no longer compete in today’s hyper-competitive global marketplace. Businesses are being impacted by a global skills shortage that is hampering manufacturing output and service delivery.

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6 Ways AI Could Disrupt Your Business

Harvard Business

The authors suggest six scenarios that all boards must consider — and then act upon — ranging from predicting extreme operational changes, to anticipating new strategic ways to compete, to foreseeing existential threats that could obviate one’s business. How can boards better understand the potential impacts of AI?

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2024 Events for Project Managers, Business Leaders, and Industry Professionals

Epicflow

DTX: The North’s Biggest Enterprise IT Event May, 22-23, Manchester, UK The event aims to help leading companies thrive amid ongoing disruptions, develop strategies, and identify opportunities during tough times. There will be four areas of focus – Landscape, Process, Design, Technology, and People.

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A Short History of Radio Explains the iPhone’s Success

Harvard Business

The iPhone roared into the marketplace 10 years ago today, and overwhelmed the wireless world. Wireless is the same, but without the cat. Owned by the Chicago Federation of Labor, which purchased the station, in 1926, for $250,000, the enterprise aimed to publicize its point of view. president) and his regulatory minions.

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Using IoT Data to Understand How Your Products Perform

Harvard Business

Since 2011, General Electric has publicly stated it would spend more than $1 billion on developing sensors, wireless devices, and related software to install on its aircraft engines, power turbines, locomotive trains and other machinery. Operations in a Connected World. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Success with the Internet of Things Requires More Than Chasing the Cool Factor

Harvard Business

With data analytics provided by Microsoft Azure and an informational infrastructure developed collaboratively by Industrial Scientific and Cisco, operators now have a dashboard to remotely monitor the people, equipment, and air quality in the mine in real time. The reason? These groups must work together. Not so cool.

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Will Arizona Be America’s Next Cybersecurity Cluster? - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM ARIZONA COMMERCE AUTHORITY

Harvard Business

U of A is home to the Wireless Network and Cyber Security Research Lab, and has been designated by the National Security Agency (NSA) and Department of Homeland Security as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense. The AZSecure Cybersecurity Fellowship Program offers full scholarships for qualified U.S.