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The Internet of Things Will Change Your Company, Not Just Your Products

Harvard Business Review

The resulting challenges may include new contract-manufacturing relationships, which can be a complicated and disorienting process for the uninitiated. HR has the job of developing the human capabilities needed to capture the IoT opportunity. Information & technology Operations Organizational culture Product development'

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The Trade War with China Could Accelerate 3-D Printing in the U.S.

Harvard Business Review

As companies rethink their supply chains, they ought to seriously consider embracing a new manufacturing technology that’s now ready for prime time: 3-D printing. No longer relegated to trinkets and prototyping, 3-D printing, which is also called additive manufacturing , is now moving into mass production.