Use Learning to Engage Your Team

I’ve changed job in March 2019 and shortly after came across this Harvard Business Review Podcast posted one year earlier, titled “Use Learning to Engage Your Team”. It resonated with me as it described pretty well what I was experiencing. Maybe something you should consider too, when changing job, hiring or on-boarding newcomers. This post … Continue reading Use Learning to Engage Your Team

Will 5S resist 4.0 tech?

April 2019, in the corridors of our offices I picked a statement made by a young consultant about one of his clients: "It's a real mess in their warehouse, they do not manage storage and have no defined storage locations. They lose an incredible amount of time searching for goods. Introducing RFID tags would allow … Continue reading Will 5S resist 4.0 tech?

Industry 4.0 (still) on the edge of the chasm

March 2019, eight years [updated] October 2021, ten years after its official launch and many experiments, Industry 4.0 is on the brink, looking at the chasm. For the concept Industry 4.0 to become reality, it has to move from a random collection of scattered Proofs of Concept to full-scale projects. It must convince a critical … Continue reading Industry 4.0 (still) on the edge of the chasm

The Right Way to Solve Complex Business Problems

The Right Way to Solve Complex Business Problems is the title of a december 04, 2018* episode of IdeaCast, the podcast from Harvard Business Review. In this episode, Curt Nickisch (HBR) interviews Corey Phelps, a strategy professor at McGill University and author. *I’ve listened the podcast in early April 2019 The interview on podcast and … Continue reading The Right Way to Solve Complex Business Problems