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Eforms 101: Everything You Need To Know About eForms

Strategy Driven

If you can capture all that information and move it into your core business systems, it becomes easier to shorten cycle times and lower your operating costs. Engineering Department: Use electronic forms for engineering change orders, defect tracking, and requests for product enhancement. Electronic Forms Improve Data Accuracy.

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The Big Picture of Business – Yesterdayism… Learning from the Past, Planning for the Future

Strategy Driven

The Old Became the New Again… The original speed for phonograph records, as invented in 1888, was 78-RPM, which engineers determined to be the most ideal for sound quality. Corporations have become extended families, thus embracing dysfunctionality, changes, modifications and learning curves. Drive-in movies. Benchmarking.

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

Harvard Business Review

It will take time and effort: Additive manufacturing require a steep learning curve for engineers used to working on conventional assembly lines, and each part must be tested extensively to make sure it holds up under wartime conditions. From the outside, these behemoths may look like conglomerates.

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

Harvard Business Review

Operations. When product-based companies add services and connectivity, operational requirements increase. Sales operations must consider changes to market segmentation, territory management, and resource allocation. telemetry, communications and connectivity protocols, electrical hardware engineering). Engineering.

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How Advanced Analytics Is Changing B2B Selling

Harvard Business Review

From targeted online advertising to more precise recommendation engines, consumer markets are bursting with innovation around machine learning and advanced analytics. At an even higher level, Blast IQ helps a less experienced engineer move up the learning curve much faster than in the days when one learned strictly by trial and error.

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Debriefing as Continuous Improvement

Strategy Driven

Fighter Pilots and Special Operations teams have discovered and used a secret to continuous improvement – a tool every enterprise can benefit from. It’s our job to get the plane down safely, whether riddled by bullets or with two dead engines snuffed out by birds over the Hudson River. So we aviators seek cultures of learning.

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When You Criticize Someone, You Make It Harder for that Person to Change

Harvard Business Review

That line of thinking shuts us down, puts us on the defensive, and narrows our possibilities to rescue operations. The manager had an engineering background; when it came to getting a task done, “all he saw was the task,” says Boyatzis, “not the people he worked with to get it done.”.