OKRs: No automatic linkage between strategic intents and shop floor actions. But still worth setting them!

Despite inflated expectations - a marker of the hype phase according to Gartner’s hype cycle model - OKRs don’t do better than other approaches for cascading strategic intents from the C-suite down to the shop floor. There is no automatic linkage provided between strategic intents defined at the organization’s top and shop floor actions. Managers …

Industry 4.0: Hoping for a turnkey enhanced productivity through (optimization and) automation

When it comes to potential benefits boasted by “Industry 4.0” solution vendors or the expected benefits by manufacturers, it’s all about optimization of processes and of productivity. More specifically: saving costs, increasing profitability, reducing waste, automating to prevent errors and delays, speeding up production to work more in real-time and all of this in a …