2013 was a watershed year for Industry 4.0, moving from the concept pages of the German Academy of Engineering to becoming strategic pillars of investment across governments and enterprises.
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What is the Business Case for AR?
While Augmented Reality (AR) is gaining significant attention as one of the Industry 4.0 technologies that will revolutionize supply chain, we believe it is important to look beyond the hype and qualify the true potential and challenges.
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A.T. Kearney’s A.I. Series
I recently contributed to a series of five bylines along with my colleagues examining the strategic implications of A.I. on the enterprise – from strategy, to leadership to the future of the workplace.
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“Sense and Pivot” Supply Chain @ MIT Media Lab
Demands on supply chains are ever increasing as companies vie to deliver more personalized products, with faster lead time, at a lower cost. Further, unexpected execution conditions continually disrupt operational performance.
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Why Supply Chains Must Sense and Pivot
Even today’s most sophisticated supply chains still try to predict what will happen, then optimize performance against plan. The problem is, the world is not predictable. It is filled with the unforeseen. To meet soaring customer demands in this erratic world, companies need to build a whole new kind of supply chain, fast.
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Eight Misconceptions of Going Digital
Digital transformation?? Oh, not again! Everything seems to be a digital transformation today and there’s nothing left under the sun that hasn’t been written about such disruptive change.
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认清这四个现实，绘制完整的人工智能与企业自动化实施路线图
利用机器学习能力，来改善并自动化业务流程，人工智能将在不远的未来释放出巨大的潜力。 作者：Michael Hu，科尔尼全球合伙人 | 翻译校订：李健，科尔尼全球合伙人
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Four Facts Every Exec Must Know About A.I.
While A.I. and machine learning has made rapid progress in consumer facing applications such as Amazon Alexa, playing Go, and making art, its deployment across the enterprise is still emerging and uneven.
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How to Avoid Overspending on AI
Artificial intelligence is the darling of the moment for the technology press and the corporate meme-stream. So much so, it’s forcing some CFOs into tough discussions with executive teams
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Will You Embrace A.I. Fast Enough?
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a fast-moving technology with a long road ahead of it. For all its surrounding hype, AI is still in its infancy.
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A.I. in Planning – SCMR Podcast
I held a podcast this week with Supply Chain Management Review on the topic of Artificial Intelligence in Planning.
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Amazon the Zara Slayer
One question we often get from clients is “Will Amazon disrupt my sector next”? – be it in Fresh, CPG, Beauty, Apparel, or even Industrials.
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A.I. Coming of Age
Artificial Intelligence progress has been uneven in the past 5 decades, with spurts of breakthrough followed by “winter-like” periods of stagnation. Barriers like technology cost, organization capability and ineffective policies held back AI from going mainstream. Yet, this trend shifted starting in 2005
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A.I. + Future of Production with World Economic Forum
Last week, I facilitated a cross-functional workshop with The World Economic Forum, and several tech startups (Noodle A.I., Rage Framework, Enterra) to investigate the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on global production and value chain.
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Digital Supply Chain and Patterns of Disruption
Advances in smart automation is increasingly disrupting both B2B and B2C supply chains. The pattern of disruption will likely manifest in two waves
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