Recovery Planning – STEP 1
Focus your remote planning workforce on locating potential weaknesses in your value chain The reality of Social Quarantine caused by the coronavirus is setting in for corporations worldwide. Demand outlook and timing is uncertain, as are logistics and supply line capacity. Finances are strained and cash is critical. But action is being taken to spur recovery: the US Senate has agreed to an unprecedented $2 trillion bipartisan economic aid package intended to help alleviate the impact of coronavirus, and many state and local governments have followed suit with grants and low interest loans. So, how do you focus down now …
Aerospace and Defense: Returning to Technology Leadership at Light Speed
If Aerospace and Defense leaders turns inward and take a page out of their own playbook known as systems integration and apply it to their own ecosystem (market) while digitally transforming their operations we will see Aerospace once again return to prominence as a technology leader while setting itself on a path to move forward at the speed of light. In the last century, the aerospace and defense industry has ushered in the modern age of globally accessible travel. The aerospace industry has made unprecedented, seemingly impossible strides in revolutionizing aviation and space flight technology. Aerospace technology has surpassed basic …
Digital Transformation Is Happening In Our Police Forces
As somebody who teaches digital transformation and who has been telling my students for years that if they walk into a meeting with a notebook and pen they are failing to maximize the potential of new technology, I was struck by this news item in the New York Times, “Why the N.Y.P.D. dropped one of its oldest crime-fighting tools.” And yet I still come across managers who defend pen and paper tooth and nail, even though the evidence, as with the New York Police Department in the article, is that written notes are not much use. To me, this seems …
Expert Opinion: Why Customer Journey Mapping is vital for improving CX
Customer Journey Mapping, identifying every customer touchpoint and examining how they feel at each point in the process is a key tool in improving the experience customers have of your business. CX specialists Insight6 share six reasons why customer journey mapping is vital for improving the experience of your customers. A customer journey map creates a clear plan of action Customer Journey Mapping is about identifying clear actions that will transform the experience your customers have with you. This is not about creating pretty posters showing everyone that you have a customer journey map for your office wall; this is …
Welcoming Lynn to ForeOptics Team
Lynn K. Borek recently joined ForeOptics team as a Practice Leader. Lynn is a Senior Aerospace and Defense Executive with more than 20 years of expertise in Program/Project Management, Operations Management, Strategic Management, Business Development and Marketing using creativity and vision to integrate complex systems and projects as value propositions of market and customer. She leads business unit in defining core strengths, driving growth and profitability. Further identifies resources and positions company to utilize technology to drive revenue and growth. Creates sense of urgency to innovate, expand products/services, and create aggressive sales force. And nurtures culture of high quality, service, …
The Technology that Drives Government IT
Driving the IRS to DevOps The IRS created the Deployment and Release Integration and Visibility Engine to better automate software implementation. DRIVE operates as a database that tracks the life cycle of a software deployment from start to finish. At each step in a project, it updates the status of approvals, records of success or failure and any outstanding IT tickets that need to be addressed. Affectionately dubbed “the spaghetti bowl” by employees, the previous collection of legacy processes used for more than 7,750 transmittals every year often resulted in “death by too many options,” said Stephen Dill, an IT …
Convoy raises $400 million to expand its on-demand trucking platform
Convoy, the digital freight network that connects truckers with shippers, has raised $400 million in a Series D funding round as it aims to scale its business amid an increasingly competitive market. The funding round brings Convoy’s post-money valuation to $2.75 billion. The round was co-led by Generation Investment Management and previous Convoy investor T. Rowe Price Associates. Asset management firm Baillie Gifford, which has fondness for pre-IPO tech companies, Fidelity and Durable Capital Partners, as well as Series C investors CapitalG and Lone Pine Capital, also participated in the round. Convoy has managed to attract a slew of high-profile …
3 DevOps Lessons from Lean Auto Manufacturing
Lean principles for fast flow have been around in auto manufacturing since the 1950’s, but many organizations still have not adopted these practices to modernize how they implement new technology and design new features. Credit: Puppet …
Manufacturing goes Digital
Manufacturing goes digital: Smart factories have the potential to spark labor productivity “Manufacturing productivity has stalled for the past five years but trailblazers who have increased investment in smart technology initiatives have seen twice the level of gains to labor productivity compared to their peers. Furthermore, leaders in this group expect increases in labor productivity to continue to accelerate ahead of the average over the next three years. Clearly there is a recipe to extract value through investments in smart factory initiatives.” — Morgan Travis. Smart factories will be the game changer for the US manufacturing industry. Adopting smart …
