The Horizons Tracker
FEBRUARY 20, 2020
The number of industrial robots in operation around the world has grown rapidly in recent years, but nowhere more so than in China, where some 30% of the world’s robots are in operation. This growth has prompted many to ponder whether humans are being pushed out of the workforce in favor of their robotic brethren.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 16, 2017
While security executives have a reputation for stymieing operations and product development with the burdens of technical operations, their role is actually to enable business. Directors should make sure that OpEx and CapEx are aligned with risk reduction priorities and projects; security is not done for security’s sake.
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Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 22, 2017
For every company wrestling with evolutions in its strategy, success depends as much on matching the operating model to those evolutions as it does on the soundness of the strategy itself. But exactly how do today’s companies create or update an operating model to match adaptations or wholesale changes in strategy?
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 30, 2013
and saved $200-$300 million in ongoing operation and maintenance costs). In all of the completed corporate projects, the green option won out toe-to-toe on capital expenditures and operational expenditures. Power consumption and CO2 emissions were reduced by 98%, which lowered operating expenses dramatically.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 5, 2012
A scorecard that links financials with learning initiatives and other operations would serve as a cross-check for managers. Let's say, for example, that you're seeing a pattern of strong store sales for a group of products that were previously perceived as unrelated.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 19, 2013
It may make costs more predictable and shift investments from CapEx to OpEx. Unfortunately, we have found that the focus of governance around IT continues to be on the more operational IT issues of delivering technology capabilities and IT services. They never have! It may even lead to access to leading-edge technologies.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 27, 2017
Executives who wouldn’t hesitate to automate a factory now flinch at the prospect of deep-learning algorithms dictating their sales strategies and capex. In reality, “handoffs” and transitions prove to be significant operational problems. The implications of success scare them more than the risk of failure.
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