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Breaking the Death Grip of Legacy Technologies

Harvard Business Review

Technologies like 3-D printing, robotics, advanced motion controls, and new methods for continuous manufacturing hold great potential for improving how companies design and build products to better serve customers. Why are older incumbent firms slow to adopt new technologies even when the economic or strategic benefits are clear?

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The Dirty Little Secret About Digitally Transforming Operations

Harvard Business Review

the Internet of Things (IoT), Digital Manufacturing, and big data and advanced analytics. There is a common misconception that technology alone can produce magical results. The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. It was all reminiscent of 19 th century advertisements for cure-all patent medicines.