5 Things To Know About Predictive Analytics
Technology in business has revolutionized the way the industry operates. In the past, businesses had to rely on physical marketing, sales, and other business...
The Procurement Call for Agile, What does it mean?
By Andressa Reis and Hervé Legenvre
Today, Procurement teams need to embrace the agile ways of working in order to work in synch with their...
Moving from Data and Knowledge to Competitive Advantage
By Mostafa Sayyadi
Once the important paradigm of knowledge management was accepted by both the scholars of the academy of management and executives, knowledge cycle...
To Get the Best Outsourced IT Services, Look Beyond Your Backyard
Savvy business owners and managers know how outsourcing can contribute to company success. Handing over tasks like accounting, payroll, marketing, and HR can reduce...
Top and Cheapest Internet Providers in 2019
Internet access has become one of the necessities of life. It is as important as electricity or phone facility now. With so much competition...
Easy Ways to Cut Costs in Your Business
Running a business is no cheap enterprise. If you feel like your business is not generating as much profit as you would like, there...
How Can Appointment Setting Help Your Business Avoid Time Wasting?
Booking appointments into your busy workday can be time-consuming however with appointment booking software and a number of other organisational tools, you can begin...
Things To Consider When Purchasing A Document Management System
Document Management Systems (DMS) are software to help businesses manage, store, and track digital files like documents and images. These files might be from...
5 Useful Working Tasks to Solve by Mobile Apps
Nowadays, many business tasks can be operated remotely via a smartphone. This is not about reading emails, calling partners and ordering a taxi. Applications...
5 Productivity Hacks Every Project Manager Needs to Know
Between every sunrise and sunset, we’re all given the same amount of time - everybody knows this. Then how is it that some people...
Seven Reasons Why You Need An Expert Tradesman
In the modern era, a DIY mindset has taken hold. It has given rise to the maker's industry where people use CNC routers and...
3 Tips for Choosing an ERP for Your Business
ERP stands for Enterprise Resource Planning and it's the process whereby an enterprise manages and integrates vital business aspects. If you would like to...
Why Transferring Email to Outlook is Not Always Easy
There are many email clients, both paid and free, which are available and widely used today. There is Incredimail with fun fonts, emoticons, and...
Going for gold! Five decades of business transformation, Oliver Wight celebrates its 50th Anniversary
2019 is the year Oliver Wight celebrates its 50th Anniversary as a world-leading business transformation specialist. Founded in 1969, as man first set foot...
The Right Tools for Remote Work
It is no secret that a rapidly increasing number of companies are offering remote job opportunities. But what you might not know is that...
Making Failure Work
By Ricardo Viana Vargas, Edivandro Carlos Conforto, and Tahirou Assane Oumarou
For all organisations and managers failure is a recurring reality. But despite failure being...
Air freight industry 2019: Uses and innovation
Air cargo is an infinitely faster and more convenient method for shipped items and goods than the slower and less reliable sea cargo, but...
How Technology is Changing the Delivery Industry
Over the past decade, the world of logistics has changed almost beyond recognition. And this change has been driven, almost entirely, by the advancement...
The Ultimate Win-Win for WAN: Co-Managed SD-WAN
Do-It-Yourself and carrier-managed SD-WAN sit on opposite ends of the WAN management spectrum. The of the DIY approach puts enterprises in control of their...
Leveraging Predictive Analysis in Business Intelligence
Back in 2017, the Economist titled one of their articles, “The world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data”. This has been...
Do I Really Need a Project Manager for my AV Event?
Technology is a vital part of any event. For conferences and other high profile events, most attendees will expect to see some kind of...
Business Priorities: What is Agile project management training?
Agile project management is a popular approach to project management that completes things in small sections called iterations. Each itineration is often reviewed by...
Buying Market Share With Supply Chain
By Richard Markoff and Ralf W. Seifert
In an effort to meet customer demands and gain greater market share, companies offer non-monetary benefits in supply...
GDPR and data security: responsibilities under GDPR and everything else you need to know...
If you live in the European Union or run a company which does business there, you’ve almost certainly heard of GDPR. An acronym standing...
Design Thinking: Eight Mistakes to Avoid
By Josemaria Siota and Thomas Klueter
When properly implemented, design thinking can result in higher success rate for innovation. However, one of our studies states...
The Five Essential Pillars of Multidisciplinary Process/Service Design
By Lilla Asir
Transforming the internal structures of companies by integrating design assets has been seen by many multinational corporations as a challenging process. Crafting...
Why the Fourth Industrial Revolution Requires More Supply Chain CEOs
By Wolfgang Lehmacher
CEOs need to transform businesses – an imperative which is increasingly relevant in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Apparently, as the supply chain...
A Partnership for Driving the Future of Business Transformation
A glimpse of Oliver Wight EAME's alliance with Ernst & Young LLP
As the supply chain becomes more complex, there is a growing need for...
Enhancing value through customer centric supply chain
An exclusive interview with Allan Dow, President, Logility
In today’s fast-changing marketplace, Allan Dow, President of Logility, knows all too well that a customer centric...
Leading Effective Insights & Brand Strategy in a Digital World: The 4S Data Framework
By David Dubois and Gilles Haumont
With the wave of increasing digital footprints in today’s technology-driven business landscape, more and more brands are stepping up...
Mining Actionable Information with Smart Capture: INTERVIEW WITH ENNO LUECKEL, EPHESOFT
Companies collect tons of data nowadays, but most of them do not yet profit from that treasure. The situation can be compared to the...
Five Leadership Lessons that will Help you Boost Productivity
By Deborah Sherry
Today, businesses are presented with a plethora of opportunities arising from digital transformation. However, not all business leaders know how they can...
Waking Up to Data Quality
By Tadhg Nagle, Thomas Redman and, David Sammon
Bad data impacts managers and their companies far more than most realise today and presents an enormous...
The Reliance on Blockchain Technology Will Increase as Businesses Become Knowledgeable on How to...
Not every company will accept Bitcoin as a potential investment. However, businesses cannot deny the potential of the technology behind the cryptocurrency. Blockchain's tamperproof...
The Real Industry 4.0 Challenge
By Richard Markoff and Ralf Seifert
As the manufacturing industry enters into the fourth industrial revolution or the Industry 4.0, supply chain leaders are challenged...
Safeguarding your Brand through Better Supply Chain Visibility
By Ben Wilde
Better supply chain visibility is what you need to safeguard your brand. Trends ranging from globalisation and social media to rising...
Supply Chain Digitalisation Management Challenge
By Richard Markoff and Ralf seifert
As part of the broader Industry 4.0 trend, the digitalisation of supply chains is happening quickly. Much of the...
Is Your Supply Chain Sustainable? Probably Not
By Cory Searcy
A growing number of companies are working to develop sustainable supply chains. A key challenge is to align their supply chain...
Overcoming the Illusion of Email Overwhelm
By Joe Beccalori
One of the most dreaded activities that executives have got to face is treading through an overwhelming amount of electronic messages. In...
Post Global, Going to a “Local-to-Local” Approach. Sometimes.
By Francesco Stefanelli
Today’s companies are global in nature and for many, this translates into a dynamic environment for designing their Supply Chains, in order...
Digital Reality No.1: Customer Experience is Value
By Stijn Viaene
Customer-centric practices have been one of the key considerations in this age of digital transformation. In this article, Professor Stijn Viaene elaborates...
Mapping and Strategising Across Business Ecosystems
By Hervé Legenvre and Isabelle Herbet
Business ecosystems are the new unit of analysis for strategic thinking; they offer fertile grounds for innovation. This article...
Creating an Omnichannel Supply Chain for Branded Manufacturers: The Untapped Potential for Growth
By Michael Hu and Sunil Chopra
In today’s omnichannel world, the distinction between brands and retailers is of little interest to consumers. They will buy...
Re-invent Yourself as COO
By Nathan Bennett & Stephen A. Miles
We focus on factors that have fundamentally changed demands on COOs: global recession, the evolving paradigm surrounding governance,...
Risk Sharing in Joint Product Development – Lessons from 787 Dreamliner
By Yao Zhao
Reconciling an empirical study1 of 787 delays with an economic analysis of financial incentives, we reveal a subtle incentive trap in the risk...
The Quest for Operational Efficiency: The Story of DWIMBS
By Sherilyn Casiano
To operate a successful business effectively and efficiently, you need to have relevant and accurate information regarding the performance of the business....
The Decoupling Effect of Digital Disruptors
By Thales S. Teixeira & Peter Jamieson
A new wave of Internet startups is disrupting established businesses by the process of “decoupling”. In this article,...
Making 3D printing work for you: Defining Business Models for Additive Manufacturing
By Matthias Holweg, Kai Hoberg, Frits K. Pil, Jakob Heinen
Companies struggle to define the value proposition 3D printing brings: While the opportunities for...
Building the Everything Store: Amazon’s Cycles of Creativity and Circles of Destruction
By Sean Culey
In just 20 years, Amazon has grown from an online startup focusing on selling books, to a devastating multi-platform, multi-industry technological disruptor,...
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