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Category Archives: Improvement
Adidas’ SpeedFactory: A Big Step Towards Onshoring Work?
For years we’ve talked about a robot revolution, but robots are nothing new! Robots have worked in factories for decades. They’re incredibly fast, but they’re also expensive to program, and they can only follow very specific instructions. If they receive … Continue reading
Posted in Best Practices, Improvement, Robots, Uncategorized
Tagged adidas, china, factories, manufacturing, Offshore
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Robotic Reporting… The Tipping Point
For the past several years robots have quietly infiltrated newspapers and magazines, slowly replacing reporters. Sounds like the plot of a “B” movie? Maybe, but robots have learned how to write like humans, how to do research on the internet, … Continue reading
Posted in Decision Making, Delivering Services, Employment, Improvement, Robots, Unique Ideas
Tagged newspapers, Publication, Robots
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The 2016 Summer Outsourcing Olympics!
Every four years athletes from around the world gather to compete and, the best of the best are awarded medals for their efforts. In the summer games, we find out who can run the fastest, jump the highest, lift the … Continue reading
Posted in Decision Making, Improvement, Uncategorized
Tagged Automation, olympics, outsourcing, technology
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It’s A Pokemon World
I don’t want to play Pokemon GO. Really, I don’t. As a confirmed geek I have some interest in any tech. Pokemon GO is the first Augmented Reality (AR) game that is an international hit, so I am a tiny … Continue reading
Posted in cars, Decision Making, Improvement, Uncategorized
Tagged accidents, cars, games, pokemon, traffic
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The Robot Revolution On Speed: Too Late To Turn Back!
Tongues have been wagging about the rise of the robots. Robots taking over manufacturing, robots acting as home companions and robots taking our jobs. A lot of digital ink has been spilled on the subject. You know what? Just about … Continue reading
Posted in Decision Making, Delivering Services, Employment, Improvement, Robots
Tagged economy, employment, outsource, Robots
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How The Outsourcing Engine Will Change The World
In our last blog, we looked into how robots and learning machines are positioned to take over professional jobs: doctors, lawyers, and corporate MBA jobs. Advances in learning systems allow robots to learn the same way humans do, by reading … Continue reading
Posted in Decision Making, Employment, Improvement, Learning and Development, Uncategorized, Unique Ideas
Tagged employment, Robots, technology, transform
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Will Corporations Still Need MBA’s?
Automation is all around us. Technologies that displace human have become pervasive, and so SUCCESSFUL, that we barely notice them. Parking meters were part of the urban landscape for nearly a century, with downtown areas packed these mechanical marvels. Today a … Continue reading
Posted in Employment, Improvement, Robots, Unique Ideas
Tagged corporations, economy, education, employment, Robot
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Volkswagen: Why Corporations Choose To Lie
By now everyone has heard the story of how Volkswagen created software to cheat Federal Air pollution standards. The software was aware when the car was hooked into analysis equipment that measured pollution. When it was tested, the software would … Continue reading
Posted in Improvement, Project Management Office
Tagged Analysis, corporations, Crime
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Who Will Manage Your Robot Revolution?
The robots are coming and they will profoundly your job and how employment works in America, and the world. That’s a big statement, but it is a big, big revolution. By now you know the world “Drone”. It means an … Continue reading
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4th Sigma: How To Listen When The Client Is Silent
If you’ve been following this Blog, you know that we have been discussing variability: how the products and services we provide can be better or worse at any given moment. We then created a tool for identifying and quantifying the … Continue reading
Posted in 4th Sigma, Best Practices, Decision Making, Delivering Services, Improvement
Tagged 4th Sigma, complaints, Improve, Measure, Metrics, Voice of the Client
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