Shaping the Economic Recovery That the economy has taken one of the biggest downturn in recent history is a fact. The intertwining of business and value chains across the planet has made it not just “global”, it made it worse since a glitch in a supply chain affected the whole …
Read More »Lights and Shadows of Covid-19 on Digital Transformation – XVI
Supply and delivery chains are possibly some of the most complex and successful achievement of modern society. The computerisation of their management has made possible an unbelievable effectiveness. With quite a bit of simplification (over-simplification possibly) we can recognise these stages: Innovation and streamlining of transportation Creation of warehouses and …
Read More »It is time to reinvent the wheel
We have already moved quite a long way from Henry Ford’s famous statement: “Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black.” He didn’t actually wanted to limit customer’s choice, he wanted to produce a car that could be affordable for (mostly) …
Read More »The many faces of Digital Transformation – Societal Scenarios XIII
Circular Economy Although our Planet is big and plentiful in the last decades the rate of resource consumption on the one hand and the waste produced has started to put a dent in our global assets. Also, the trends are for a worsening unless action is taken. This is in …
Read More »The many faces of Digital Transformation – The Enablers XIII
Customer purchase process The Digital Transformation is further transforming the purchasing process, even the “habit” of shoppers. The shift of internet access to the mobile devices has further accelerated the change. Notice that here the focus is mainly on the retail market. Let’s look at the six stages of purchasing: Problem …
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Growth of distributed Clouds Centralisation vs decentralisation has been on designers’ table for several decades and over this period we have seen the shift of interest moving back and forth. The fact is that there is no silver bullet and as technology evolves, and its adoption spreads, the context changes …
Read More »The many faces of Digital Transformation – The Enablers IV
The early success of personal computers among hobbyists was driven by actuators that converted bits into sound or light. At industrial level the conversion of bits into printouts and into commands operating a lathe or other tools was the reason for their adoption. Actually, it is this conversion of bit/data …
Read More »The many faces of Digital Transformation – The Enablers III
Use of Data This category includes a variety of technologies with Artificial Intelligence having the lion’s share. Data are acquired by different sources and their value often lies in correlation. This makes meaning emerge. This correlation is both temporal based (machine learning) and spatial based (correlation occurs among different streams …
Read More »What if …Reality+Digital Reality becomes … Reality – X
In the previous post I pointed out that Digital Reality is becoming Reality not just for products but also for Systems, including complex systems like telecommunications networks. Here I point out that Digital Reality is becoming “Reality” also for processes. This is of particular interest, and significance, for the manufacturing …
Read More »Platforms, Present and Future XIV
Platforms as enabler of business (and services) III OK, so after having discussed the evolution of API let’s go back to the use of platforms as enabler of the shift from products to services (and ecosystems). The evolution of products is first towards flanking them with add-on services (see graphic …
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