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Business Ecosystems: Building Stronger Connections

Tom Spencer

Apple’s and Amazon’s product lines are showcase examples of how to build a business ecosystem. In short, it means that companies are expanding beyond their traditional core products in order to increase opportunities for cross-selling and to boost customer ownership. Not likely.

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Boeing Starliner Failure: Lessons for Your Lean Program

Markovitz Consulting

The spacecraft’s internal clock became unsynced with the overall “mission elapsed timing” system, so the Starliner failed to fire its engines at the correct time to reach orbit. Front line workers grapple with daily (and hourly) production problems, while leadership is too busy to go to the gemba and learn what’s actually happening.

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Sustainable Aviation: Emerging Trends and Opportunities

Tom Spencer

While electric vehicles are already replacing conventional automobiles, no electric aircraft is ready for large scale commercial production that can usher in a sustainable revolution in aerospace. Sub-orbital travel, popularized in 2021 by Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, and Elon Musk, is projected to become a $3.5 Reusable Parts.

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The Gear That Makes Consulting So Much Easier!

Tom Spencer

Headset or speaker system with easy access to a physical mute button. Getting a sound system (be it a headset or speaker system) often reduces that challenge. I remember how I came into consulting thinking that a laptop bag would suffice for travel. Maneuverable Travel Suitcase. Comfort While Working. Accessories.

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Technical Women Are Software Managers

Johanna Rothman

Consider the System. There's an entire system here we can consider: Almost all the professors in Computer Science were men. (I I started to travel internationally as a consultant in the late 1990s. The more I traveled, the more I saw diverse teams and managers. Understanding these systems? People manage themselves.

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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. Many countries are currently facing problems in their tourism industries caused by a downturn in domestic and international travel due to COVID-19. India’s Ministry of Tourism has partnered with a travel tech start-up called OutsiteVR.

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New Leadership for the Twenty-first Century

Tom Spencer

COVID-19 has revealed that systems we thought had reached a point of relative stability can suddenly become volatile and unpredictable. This system was to some extent based on Toyota’s method of just-in-time production, and was promoted as best practice by leading professors at the world’s top business schools.